# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-t-paine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:42.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-t-paine"
name: "Robert T. Paine"
slug: "robert-t-paine"
description: "Robert Treat Paine III was an American ecologist who spent most of his career at the University of Washington. Paine coined the keystone species concept to explain the relationship between Pisaster ochraceus, a species of starfish, and Mytilus californianus, a species of mussel."
tagline: "American zoologist (1933–2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-04-13"
deathDate: "2016-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.883658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "روبيرت تى. پاين"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Treat_Paine_(Zoologe)"
    title: "Robert Treat Paine (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine_(zoologist)"
    title: "Robert T. Paine (zoologist)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine"
    title: "Robert T. Paine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رابرت پاین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пейн, Роберт Трит III"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine_(zoologist)"
    title: "Robert T. Paine (zoologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine"
    title: "Robert T. Paine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine"
    title: "Robert T. Paine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Paine_(zoolog)"
    title: "Robert T. Paine (zoolog)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump