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Leslie Ries
PeerJ Editor & Author
1,335 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Editor 1,200

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Ecology
Taxonomy
Data Science
Climate Change Biology
Zoology
Environmental Impacts
Biological Oceanography
Microbiology
Statistics
Marine Biology
Molecular Biology
Agricultural Science
Plant Science
Forestry
Evolutionary Studies
Genetics
Biogeography
Conservation Biology

Leslie Ries

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Leslie Ries is an ecologist who focuses on patterns at both medium and large scales. She has worked both in the fields of landscape ecology and biogeography with her focus mainly on butterflies. Over the last 10 years, she has shifted from a field approach to using large databases, mostly originating from citizen science monitoring networks.

Biogeography Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Data Science Ecology Environmental Sciences

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Georgetown University

Work details

Assistant professor

Georgetown University
biology
Leslie Ries is an ecologist who focuses on patterns at both medium and large scales. She has worked both in the fields of landscape ecology and biogeography with her focus mainly on butterflies. Over the last 10 years, she has shifted from a field approach to a combination of lab experiments and observations from large databases, mostly originating from citizen science monitoring networks. Citizen science greatly expands the scale at which we can collect data and thus explore problems and solutions that are increasingly global in nature. Her lab work focuses on the physiological limits to growth imposed by extreme temperatures. Combining lab and field research with large-scale distribution data could provide a powerful approach to exploring the impacts of changing land cover and climate at regional, continental and global scales. Ries focuses on several facets of citizen-science, including the use of these data to answer large-scale ecological questions, especially those related to climate and land cover; developing statistical tools to extract the most robust information from the data; designing systems to support data management, visualization, and sharing; and developing “knowledge” databases that compile life history and other trait data to enrich multi-species analyses. In addition to carrying out and enabling large-scale ecological research, Ries has also been working on methods to integrate big-data approaches into undergraduate education, and she is also increasingly interested in informal education opportunities as well.

Websites

  • Ries Lab
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 9
July 29, 2020
A novel curation system to facilitate data integration across regional citizen science survey programs
Dana L. Campbell, Anne E. Thessen, Leslie Ries
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9219 PubMed 32821528

Academic Editor on

April 8, 2021
Measuring change in biological communities: multivariate analysis approaches for temporal datasets with low sample size
Hannah L. Buckley, Nicola J. Day, Bradley S. Case, Gavin Lear
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11096 PubMed 33889442
March 25, 2021
Warming resistant corals from the Gulf of Aqaba live close to their cold-water bleaching threshold
Jessica Bellworthy, Maoz Fine
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11100 PubMed 33828920
May 13, 2020
Inventory statistics meet big data: complications for estimating numbers of species
Ali Khalighifar, Laura Jiménez, Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, Benedictus Freeman, Kate Ingenloff, Daniel Jiménez-García, Town Peterson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8872 PubMed 32440370
December 3, 2019
Warm temperatures, cool sponges: the effect of increased temperatures on the Antarctic sponge Isodictya sp.
Marcelo González-Aravena, Nathan J. Kenny, Magdalena Osorio, Alejandro Font, Ana Riesgo, César A. Cárdenas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8088 PubMed 31824760
September 24, 2019
Estimating flowering transition dates from status-based phenological observations: a test of methods
Shawn D. Taylor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7720 PubMed 31579602
May 8, 2019
Effect of isolation on coat colour polymorphism of Polynesian rats in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6894 PubMed 31119086
March 7, 2019
Climate change and conservation in a warm North American desert: effect in shrubby plants
Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera, Diego F. Angulo, Marilyn Vásquez-Cruz, Etelvina Gándara
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6572 PubMed 30867993
January 9, 2019
Climatic niche evolution in the viviparous Sceloporus torquatus group (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)
Norberto Martínez-Méndez, Omar Mejía, Jorge Ortega, Fausto Méndez-de la Cruz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6192 PubMed 30643683
August 7, 2018
Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures
Steve L. Coles, Keisha D. Bahr, Ku’ulei S. Rodgers, Stacie L. May, Ashley E. McGowan, Anita Tsang, Josh Bumgarner, Ji Hoon Han
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5347 PubMed 30123699