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Aaron Ellison
PeerJ Author
1,280 Points

Contributions by role

Author 675
Preprint Author 105
Editor 500

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Ecosystem Science
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Environmental Sciences
Biogeography
Entomology
Statistics
Genomics
Plant Science
Natural Resource Management
Forestry
Science and Medical Education
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Marine Biology
Climate Change Biology

Aaron M Ellison

PeerJ Author

Summary

Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Forest and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachuestts; Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Monographs; Presidential Faculty Fellow (US National Science Foundation), Eminent Ecologist (Kellogg Biological Station), Distinguished Visiting Professor (University of Miami), Distinguished Ecologist (Michigan Technical University), Ledermann Lecturer in Natural History and Cosnervation Biology (University of Rhode Island), Fellow (Ecological Society of America).

Aaron studies food web dynamics and community ecology of wetlands and forests, evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants, the response of plants and ants to global climate change, the application of Bayesian statistical inference to ecological research and environmental decision-making, and the critical reaction of Ecology to Modernism.

Biodiversity Climate Change Biology Ecology Statistics

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

Harvard University

Work details

Senior Research Fellow

Harvard University
Harvard Forest

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
  • Preprints 3
  • Edited 4
  • Feedback 1
January 3, 2022
Land-use history impacts spatial patterns and composition of woody plant species across a 35-hectare temperate forest plot
David A. Orwig, Jason A. Aylward, Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Aaron M. Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12693 PubMed 35036094
March 11, 2019
Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients
Matthew K. Lau, Aaron M. Ellison, Andrew Nguyen, Clint Penick, Bernice DeMarco, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Sara Helms Cahan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6447 PubMed 30881761
October 12, 2017
Nests of red wood ants (Formica rufa-group) are positively associated with tectonic faults: a double-blind test
Israel Del Toro, Gabriele M. Berberich, Relena R. Ribbons, Martin B. Berberich, Nathan J. Sanders, Aaron M. Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3903 PubMed 29038759
May 14, 2015
Calibrating abundance indices with population size estimators of red back salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in a New England forest
Ahmed A. Siddig, Aaron M. Ellison, Scott Jackson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.952 PubMed 26020008
February 19, 2013
Foundation species loss affects vegetation structure more than ecosystem function in a northeastern USA forest
David A. Orwig, Audrey A. Barker Plotkin, Eric A. Davidson, Heidi Lux, Kathleen E. Savage, Aaron M. Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.41 PubMed 23638378
October 27, 2017 - Version: 1
Designer food webs: from build-it-and-they-will-come to intentionality-in-design
Alexander Felson, Aaron M Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3375v1
April 21, 2016 - Version: 1
Insights into student gains from undergraduate research using pre/post assessments
Andrew McDevitt, Mainsha V Patel, Brad Rose, Aaron M Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1981v1
September 30, 2015 - Version: 1
The loss of foundation species revisited
Allyson Degrassi, Steven T Brantley, Carrie R. Levine, Robert Miller, Jacqueline Mohan, Sydne Record, Aaron M Ellison
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1409v1

Academic Editor on

May 3, 2019
Examining the assumptions of heterogeneity-based management for promoting plant diversity in a disturbance-prone ecosystem
Daniel J. McGlinn, Michael W. Palmer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6738 PubMed 31110916
January 18, 2018
The importance of local settings: within-year variability in seawater temperature at South Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula
César A. Cárdenas, Marcelo González-Aravena, Pamela A. Santibañez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4289 PubMed 29372123
May 23, 2017
Within outlying mean indexes: refining the OMI analysis for the realized niche decomposition
Stéphane Karasiewicz, Sylvain Dolédec, Sébastien Lefebvre
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3364 PubMed 28560109
April 21, 2016
A comparison of species composition and community assemblage of secondary forests between the birch and pine-oak belts in the mid-altitude zone of the Qinling Mountains, China
Zongzheng Chai, Dexiang Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1900 PubMed 27123377

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05 Oct 2016

Insights into student gains from undergraduate research using pre/post assessments

This posted version is "as submitted" to BioScience. A revised version of the manuscript was accepted by BioScience on 30 September 2016.