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Scott Ferrenberg
PeerJ Editor & Author
1,375 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 105
Editor 1,135

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Ecology
Entomology
Soil Science
Zoology
Plant Science
Climate Change Biology
Natural Resource Management
Forestry
Environmental Impacts
Conservation Biology
Ecosystem Science
Biogeography
Animal Behavior
Evolutionary Studies

Scott Ferrenberg

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

I am a terrestrial population, community, and ecosystem ecologist interested in understanding how global change pressures influence biotic populations and community states, and how potential shifts in trait and/or species distributions will affect ecological functioning in arid, semiarid, and subalpine ecosystems. I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University where I am the PI of the Global Change Ecology Lab (GCEL).

Biodiversity Ecology Ecosystem Science Entomology Forestry Soil Science

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

New Mexico State University
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Montana

Work details

Associate Director

University of Montana
May 2022
Montana Forest Conservation Experiment Station

Ecologist

U.S. Geological Survey
January 2015 - August 2017
Southwest Biological Science Center

Assistant Professor

New Mexico State University
June 2017 - May 2022
Department of Biology
I was the PI of the Global Change Ecology Lab (GCEL) at New Mexico State University. We study the causes and consequences of global change, with a focus on questions and theory inspired by population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Work in the GCEL ranges from studies of vascular plants and arthropods to soil microbes and biogeochemistry. Most of our work takes place in arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid grasslands and forests where we utilize experimental methods and natural environmental gradients to consider questions of climate change.

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Global Change Ecology Lab
  • Primary Institution

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 10
October 13, 2016
Aboveground and belowground arthropods experience different relative influences of stochastic versus deterministic community assembly processes following disturbance
Scott Ferrenberg, Alexander S. Martinez, Akasha M. Faist
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2545 PubMed 27761333
January 18, 2017 - Version: 1
Differential drivers of chemical defenses in three widespread pine species along a 1500-m elevational gradient: a test of the elevational gradient in plant defense hypothesis
Scott Ferrenberg, Joseph M Langenhan, Steven A Loskot, Leonardo M Rozal, Jeffry B Mitton
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2733v1
January 25, 2016 - Version: 2
Aboveground and belowground arthropod communities experience different relative influences of stochastic and deterministic assembly processes following disturbance
Scott Ferrenberg, Alexander S. Martinez, Akasha M. Faist
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1674v2

Academic Editor on

May 1, 2023
Regeneration dynamics of Portulacaria afra in restored succulent thicket of South Africa
Nicholas C. Galuszynski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15081 PubMed 37151286
September 3, 2020
Seed germination and early seedling survival of the invasive species Prosopis juliflora (Fabaceae) depend on habitat and seed dispersal mode in the Caatinga dry forest
Clóvis Eduardo de Souza Nascimento, Carlos Alberto Domingues da Silva, Inara Roberta Leal, Wagner de Souza Tavares, José Eduardo Serrão, José Cola Zanuncio, Marcelo Tabarelli
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9607 PubMed 32953255
May 6, 2019
Metacommunity patterns of Amazonian Odonata: the role of environmental gradients and major rivers
Fernanda Alves-Martins, Leandro Schlemmer Brasil, Leandro Juen, Paulo De Marco Jr, Juliana Stropp, Joaquín Hortal
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6472 PubMed 31119064
April 11, 2019
Variation in ant-mediated seed dispersal along elevation gradients
Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6686 PubMed 30997286
December 4, 2018
Saproxylic Diptera assemblages in a temperate deciduous forest: implications for community assembly
Julia J. Mlynarek, Amélie Grégoire Taillefer, Terry A. Wheeler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6027 PubMed 30533313
November 15, 2018
Ecological divergence of burying beetles into the forest canopy
Jillian D. Wettlaufer, Kevin W. Burke, Adam Schizkoske, David V. Beresford, Paul R. Martin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5829 PubMed 30479886
August 14, 2018
Trichocera maculipennis (Diptera)—an invasive species in Maritime Antarctica
Marta Potocka, Ewa Krzemińska
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5408 PubMed 30128194
June 4, 2018
Seasonal fluctuation of oribatid mite communities in forest microhabitats
Katja Wehner, Michael Heethoff, Adrian Brückner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4863 PubMed 29888124
May 30, 2018
Urbanization alters small rodent community composition but not abundance
Jessica N. Alvarez Guevara, Becky A. Ball
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4885 PubMed 29868284
January 8, 2018
Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Doreen E. Davis, Sara A. Gagné
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4226 PubMed 29333346