Telephone: (252) 726-6841

E-mail: cpeters@email.unc.edu

Office: Institute of Marine Sciences

Mailing Address:
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280

Selected References

Charles Peterson is known for his research in marine benthic ecology and for his development of experimental approaches to testing hypotheses concerning the community organization of soft-bottom benthic systems in estuaries and lagoons. His specific interests include the importance and nature of predation and intra- and interspecific competition in benthic communities and the role of resource limitation in suspension-feeding bivalve populations. He also performs research in paleoecology, invertebrate fisheries management, estuarine habitat evaluation, and barrier island ecology.