Aaron M. Ellison

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  Books

  2004

  Gotelli, N. J., and A. M. Ellison. 2004. A Primer of Ecological Statistics. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
  [ Purchase this book directly from Sinauer Associates | Available data files, software, and code used in the book | Errata ]

  Read the reviews of the Primer
  1. Neefus, C. D. 2004. Rhodora 106: 378-382. [pdf]
  2. Drake, J. M. 2005. Ecology 86: 810-811. [pdf]
  3. Smith, T. 2005. Plant Science Bulletin 51: 61-61. [pdf]
  4. Dixon, P. M. 2005. Quarterly Review of Biology 80: 260. [pdf]
  5. Fortin, M.-J. 2005. Ecoscience 12: 286. [pdf]
  6. Rees, C. 2005. Northeastern Naturalist 12: 376. [pdf]
  7. Ford, E. D. 2005. The American Statistician 59: 350. [pdf]
  8. Berke, O. 2006. Biometrics 62: 308. [pdf]
  9. Abby Franklin praises the Primer as a "little-known title for poolside reading" in Natural New England magazine 2006, issue 29: 54-57. [pdf]

  Journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings

  2009

  Wittman, S. E., N. J. Sanders, A. M. Ellison, E. S. Jules, J. S. Ratchford, and N. J. Gotelli. 2009. Species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure. Oikos (in press).
  [ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (preprint) ]

  Ellison, A. M. 2009. Repeatability and transparency in ecological research. Ecology (in press).
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  Fitzpatrick, M. C., E. L. Preisser, A. M. Ellison, and J. S. Elkinton. 2009. Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations. Ecological Applications 19: 1673-1679.
  [ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data (via Harvard Forest Data Catalog) ]

  Karagatzides, J. D., and A. M. Ellison. 2009. Construction costs, payback times and the leaf economics of carnivorous plants. American Journal of Botany 96: 1612-1619.DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900054
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  Karagatzides, J. D., J. L. Butler, and A. M. Ellison. 2009. The pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea can directly acquire organic nitrogen and short-circuit the inorganic nitrogen cycle. PLoS One 4: e6164. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006164
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  Ellison, A. M., and B. Dennis. 2009. Paths to statistical fluency for ecologist. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (in press). DOI: 10.1890/080209.
  [ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (on-line before print) ]

  Bennett, K. T., and A. M. Ellison. 2009. Nectar, not colour, may lure insects to their death. Biology Letters 5: 469-472. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0161.
  [ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data (via Harvard Forest Data Catalog) ].

  Media coverage of the Biology Letters nectar paper

  • 4 May 2009 by Elizabeth Pennisi in Science (AAAS) Origins series ("A Companion Blog toScience's Year-of-Darwin Coverage) [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 7 May 2009: by Alvin Powell in the Harvard University Gazette [ local copy as pdf ]

  McPeek, M. A., D. L. DeAngelis, R. G. Shaw, A. J. Moore, M. D. Rausher, D. R. Strong, A. M. Ellison, L. Barrett, L. Rieseberg, M. D. Breed, J. Sullivan, C. W. Osenberg, M. Holyoak, and M. A. Elgar. 2009. Editorial: The golden rule of reviewing. The American Naturalist 173: E155-E158. DOI: 10.1086/598847.
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  Dunn, R. R., D. Agosti, A. Andersen, X. Arnan, C. Bruehl, X. Cerda, A. M. Ellison, B. Fisher, M. Fitzpatrick, H. Gibb, N. Gotelli, A. Gove, B. Guenard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, E. Laurent, J.-P. Lessard, J. Longino, J. Majer, S. Menke, T. McGlynn, C. Parr, S. Philpott, M. Pfeiffer, J. Retana, A. Suarez, H. Vasconcelos, M. Weiser, and N. Sanders. 2009. Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12: 324-333.
  [ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (pdf as published) ]

  Discussion of this paper in the blogosphere:

  • 11 May 2008 on Alex Wild's Myrmecos Blog [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 13 May 2009 on ScienceDaily [ local copy as pdf ]

  Contamin, R., and A. M. Ellison. 2009. Indicators of regime shifts in ecological systems: what do we need to know and when do we need to know it? Ecological Applications 19: 799-816.
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  Ellison, A. M., and N. J. Gotelli. 2009. Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants - Darwin's "most wonderful plants in the world". Journal of Experimental Botany 60: 19-42. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern179
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  2008

  Osterweil, L. J., L. A. Clarke, A. M. Ellison, R. Podorozhny, A. Wise, and E. Boose. 2008. Experience in using a process language to define scientific workflow and generate dataset provenance. Pages 319-329 in Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT 2008 / FSE 16)..
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  Gotelli, N. J., P. J. Mouser, S. Hudman, S. E. Morales, D. Ross, and A. M. Ellison. 2008. Geographic variation in nutrient availability, stoichiometry, and metal concentrations of plants in ombrotrophic bogs in New England, USA. Wetlands 28: 827-840.
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  Peterson, C. N., S. Day, B. E. Wolfe, A. M. Ellison, R. Kolter, and A. Pringle. 2008. A keystone predator controls bacterial diversity in the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) microecosystem. Environmental Microbiology 10: 2257-2266. DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01648.x.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2008. Preface to a special issue of Aquatic Botany on Mangrove ecology - applications in forestry and coastal zone management. Aquatic Botany 89: 77.
  [ Preface | Entire Special Issue Note: Large File size (7 Mb)! ]

  Butler, J. L., N. J. Gotelli, and Ellison, A. M. 2008. Linking the brown and green: nutrient transformation and fate in the Sarracenia microecosystem. Ecology 89: 898-904.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2008. Managing mangroves with benthic biodiversity in mind: moving beyond roving banditry. Journal of Sea Research 59: 2-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2007.05.003
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Data | This paper is the lead article in a set of papers from the Second Meeting on Mangrove Macrobenthos (MMM2) Note: Large File size (5 Mb)! ]
  Listen to me on a radio interview about mangroves (.mp3) on WBUR's "Here and Now", broadcast May 13, 2008

  Farnsworth, E. J., and A. M. Ellison. 2008. Prey availability directly affects physiology, growth, nutrient allocation, and scaling relationships among leaf traits in ten carnivorous plant species. Journal of Ecology 96: 213-221. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01313.x
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  2007

  Dunn. R.R., N.J. Sanders, M.C. Fitzpatrick, E. Laurent, J.-P. Lessard, D. Agosti, A. Andersen, C. Bruhl, X. Cerda, A.M. Ellison, B. Fisher, H. Gibb, N. Gotelli, A. Gove, B. Guenard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, J.T. Longino, J. Majer, T.G. McGlynn, S. Menke, C. Parr, S. Philpott, M. Pfeiffer, J. Retana, A. Suarez, and H. Vasconcelos. 2007. Global ant biodiversity and biogeography - a new database and its possibilities. Myrmecological News 10: 77-83.
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  Boose, E.R., A. M. Ellison, L. J. Osterweil, R. Podorozhny, L. Clarke, A. Wise, J. L. Hadley, and D. R. Foster. 2007. Ensuring reliable datasets for environmental models and forecasts. Ecological Informatics 2: 237-247.
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  Butler, J. L. and A. M. Ellison. 2007. Nitrogen cycling dynamics in the carnivorous northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Functional Ecology 21: 835-843.
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  Ellison, A. M., S. Record, A. Arguello, and N. J. Gotelli. 2007. Rapid inventory of the ant assemblage in a temperate hardwood forest: species composition and sampling methods. Environmental Entomology 36: 766-775.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2007. Metabolic theory and patterns of species richness. Ecology 88: 1889.
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  Sanders, N. J., N. J. Gotelli, S. E. Wittman, J. S. Ratchford, A. M. Ellison, and E. S. Jules. 2007. Assembly rules of ground-foraging ant assemblages are contingent on disturbance, habitat, and spatial scale. Journal of Biogeography 34: 1632-1641.
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  2006

  Ellison, A. M. 2006. Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants. Plant Biology 8: 740-747. DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-923956.
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  Sullivan, K. A., and A. M. Ellison. 2006. The seed bank of hemlock forests: implications for forest regeneration following hemlock decline. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 133: 393-402.
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  Ne'eman, G., R. Ne'eman, and A. M. Ellison. 2006. Limits to reproductive success of Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae). American Journal of Botany 93: 1660-1666.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Erratum (corrected identification of Bombus species; pdf) ]

  Ellison, A. M. 2006. What makes an ecological icon? Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 87: 380-386
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  Gotelli, N.J., and A.M. Ellison. 2006. Food-web models predict species abundance in response to habitat change. PLoS Biology 44(10): e324. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040324.
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  Non-technical stories about the PLoS Biology food-web paper

  • 25 September 2006: PLoS press release [ local copy as a pdf ]
    • Reprinted on 26 September 2006 on brightsurf.com [ local copy as pdf ]
    • Picked up by EIN News on 26 September 2006, but access requires registration, subscription, and payment
    • Picked up by AlphaGalileo.org on 26 September 2006 [ local copy as pdf ]
    • Picked up by NewsGuide.us on 26 September 2006 [ local copy as pdf ]
    • Picked up on 30 September 2006 by Feedster.com from KeystoneAutomotive.be [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 26 September 2006: by John Pickrell in New Scientist [ local copy as a pdf ]
    • Shortened and reprinted 29 September 2006 on the Forest Conservation Portal [ local copy as pdf ]
    • Reprinted on 29 September 2006 on EcoEarth.Info [ local copy as pdf ]
    • Reprinted on 29 September 2006 on rainforestportal.org [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 27 September 2006: by Daniel Lingenhöhl in SpektrumDirekt [ local copy of German original as pdf | English translation ]
  • 28 September 2006: by Jonathan Shurin in Nature (News and Views) [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 29 September 2006: by Andrew Sugden in Science (Editors Choice: Highlights of the recent literature) [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 29 September 2006: by Andrew Hyde in Innovations Report (Germany) [ local copy as pdf ]
  • 15 November 2006: by Joshua Brown in The View (University of Vermot) [ llocal copy as pdf ]

  Ellison, A. M., L. J. Osterweil, J. L. Hadley, A. Wise, E. Boose, L. Clarke, D. R. Foster, A. Hanson, D. Jensen, P. Kuzeja, E. Riseman, and H. Schultz. 2006. Analytic webs support the synthesis of ecological datasets. Ecology 87: 1345-1358.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C ]
  Appendices A and B are Flash Animations. If you need Adobe/Macromedia Flash Viewer, click here to get the free download.

  Atwater, D. Z.*, J. L. Butler, and A. M. Ellison. 2006. Spatial distribution and impacts of moth herbivory on northern pitcher plants. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 43-56.
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  Gotelli, N. J., and A. M. Ellison. 2006. Forecasting extinction risk with non-stationary matrix models. Ecological Applications 16: 51-61.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Read the commentary on this work by Joshua Brown in the Spring 2006 University of Vermont Quarterly]

  2005

  Osterweil, L. J., A. Wise, L. A. Clarke, A. M. Ellison, J. L. Hadley, E. Boose, and D. R. Foster. 2005. Process technology to facilitate the conduct of science. Pages 403-415 in M. Li, B. Boehm, and L. J. Osterweil, editors. Unifying the software process spectrum: international software process workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005, revised selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Germany. DOI: 10.1007/11608035-33.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2005. Turning the tables: plants bite back. Wings Fall 2005: 25-29.
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  Ellison, A. M., M. S. Bank, B. D. Clinton, E. A. Colburn, K. Elliott, C. R. Ford, D. R. Foster, B. D. Kloeppel, J. D. Knoepp, G. M. Lovett, J. Mohan, D. A. Orwig, N. L. Rodenhouse, W. V. Sobczak, K. A. Stinson, J. K. Stone, C. M. Swan, J. Thompson, B. von Holle, and J. R. Webster. 2005. Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 479-486.
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  This article was highlighted in the Pathways to Scientific Teaching section of Frontiers in Ecology and the Enviroment. Click here to dowload this teaching exercise on ecological and environmental problem-solving written by Hodder et al.
  The entire Pathways to Scientific Teaching series was published in 2008 as a book with the same title, edited by Diane Ebert-May and Janet Hodder. The book can be purchased directly from Sinauer Associates

  Ratchford, J.S., S. E. Wittman, E. S. Jules, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, and N. J. Sanders. 2005. The effects of fire, local environment, and time on ant assemblages in fens and forests. Diversity and Distributions 11: 487-497.
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  Ellison, A. M., J. Chen*, D. Díaz*, C. Kammerer-Burnham*, and M. Lau*. 2005. Changes in ant community structure and composition associated with hemlock decline in New England. Pages 280-289 in B. Onken and R. Reardon, editors. Proceedings of the 3^rd Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United States. US Department of Agriculgure - US Forest Service - Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Morgantown, West Virginia.
  [ Full Text | Data (via Harvard Forest Data Catalog) | Entire symposium proceedings ]

  Wakefield, A. E., N. J. Gotelli, S. E. Wittman, and A. M. Ellison. 2005. The effect of prey addition on nutrient stoichiometry, nutrient limitation, and morphology of the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae). Ecology 86: 1737-1743.
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  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 2005. The cost of carnivory for Darlingtonia californica (Sarraceniaceae): evidence from relationships among leaf traits. American Journal of Botany 92: 1085-1093.
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  Dixon, P. M., A. M. Ellison, and N. J. Gotelli. 2005. Improving the precision of estimates of the frequency of rare events. Ecology 86: 1114-1123.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | This article is part of a Special Feature on The Statistics of Rarity]

  Butler, J. L., D. Z. Atwater*, and A. M. Ellison. 2005. Red-spotted newts: an unusual nutrient source for northern pitcher plants. Northeastern Naturalist 12: 1-10.
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  2004

  Ellison, A. M., H. L. Buckley, T. E. Miller, and N. J. Gotelli. 2004. Morphological variation in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae): geographic, environmental, and taxonomic correlates. American Journal of Botany 91: 1930-1935.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2004. Commentary on statistics and the scientific method in ecology by Brian Dennis. Pages 362-367 in: M. L. Taper and S. R. Lele, editors. The Nature of Scientific Evidence. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA).
  [ Full Text | Purchase the book from the University of Chicago Press]

  Ellison, A. M. 2004. Bayesian inference in ecology. Ecology Letters 7: 509-520.
  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00603.x
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Full reference list for Table 1 | Corrigendum and WinBUGS code ]

  Ellison, A. M. 2004. Wetlands of Central America. Wetlands Ecology & Management 12: 3-55.
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  2003

  Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, J. S. Brewer, L. Cochran-Stafira, J. Kneitel, T. E. Miller, A. S. Worley, and R. Zamora. 2003. The evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants. Advances in Ecological Research 33: 1-74.
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  Buckley, H. L., T. E. Miller, A. M. Ellison, and N. J. Gotelli. 2003. Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs. Ecology Letters 6: 825-829.
  DOI 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00504.x
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  Bledzki, L. A., and A. M. Ellison. 2003. Diversity of rotifers from northeastern USA bogs with new species records for North America and New England. Hydrobiologia 497: 53-62
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  2002

  Bledzki, L. A. and A. M. Ellison. 2002. Nutrient regeneration by rotifers in New England (USA) bogs. Verhandlung Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 28: 1328-1331.
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  Gotelli, N. J. and A. M. Ellison. 2002c. Assembly rules for New England ant assemblages. Oikos 99: 591-599.
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  Gotelli, N. J. and A. M. Ellison. 2002b. Nitrogen deposition and extinction risk in the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Ecology 83: 2758-2765.
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  Ellison, A. M., E. J. Farnsworth, and N. J. Gotelli. 2002. Ant diversity in pitcher-plant bogs of Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 9: 267-284.
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  Ellison, A. M., and J. N. Parker*. 2002. Seed dispersal and seedling establishment of Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae). American Journal of Botany 89: 1024-1026.
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  Gotelli, N. J. and A. M. Ellison. 2002a. Biogeography at a regional scale: determinants of ant species density in bogs and forests of New England. Ecology 83: 1604-1609.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Ant abundance data (space-delimited ASCII text) | Vegetation data (tab-delimited ASCII text) | Explanation of the vegetation data codes (rich text format) ]

  Helly, J. J., T. T. Elvins, D. Sutton, D. Martinez, S. E. Miller, S. Pickett, and A. M. Ellison. 2002. Controlled publication of digital scientific data. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 45: 97-101.
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  Ellison, A. M. and N. J. Gotelli. 2002. Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99: 4409-4412.
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.022057199
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Read the review of this paper in the News & Comment section of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17: 305, 2002) | Read the review of this paper in the Discoveries section of Northern Woodlands 9(4): 44, 2002]

  Ellison, A. M. 2002. Macroecology of mangroves: large-scale patterns and processes in tropical coastal forests. Trees: Structure & Function 16: 181-194.
  DOI 10.1007/s00468-001-0133-7
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  2001

  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 2001. Mangrove communities. Pages 423-442 in: M. D. Bertness, S. Gaines, and M. E. Hay, editors. Marine Community Ecology. Sinauer Press, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
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  Ellison, A. M. 2001. Interpsecific and intraspecific variation in seed size and germination requirements of Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae). American Journal of Botany. 88: 429-437.
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  Ellison, A. M., and N. J. Gotelli. 2001. Evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 16: 623-629.
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  2000

  Ellison, A. M. 2000. Mangrove restoration: do we know enough? Restoration Ecology 8: 219-229
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  Blackstone, N. W., and A. M. Ellison. 2000. Maximal indirect development, set-aside cells, and levels of selection. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular Development and Evolution) 288: 99-104.
  [ Abstract | Full Text | Read the review of this paper in the News & Comments section of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16: 541, 2001)]

  Ellison, A. M., B. B. Mukherjee, and A. Karim. 2000. Testing patterns of zonation in mangroves: scale-dependence and environmental correlates in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. Journal of Ecology 88: 813-824.
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  Bledzki, L. A., and A. M. Ellison. 2000. Effects of water retention time on zooplankton of shallow rheolimnic reservoirs. Verhandlung Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 27: 2865-2869.
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  1999

  Ellison, A. M. 1999. Cumulative effects of oil spills on mangroves. Ecological Applications 9: 1490-1492.
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  Ellison, A. M., E. J. Farnsworth, and R. E. Merkt*. 1999. Origins of mangrove ecosystems and the mangrove biodiversity anomaly. Global Ecology and Biogeography 8: 95-115.
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  LaDeau, S. L.*, and A. M. Ellison. 1999. Seed bank composition of a northeastern U.S. tussock swamp. Wetlands 19: 255-261.
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  1998

  Bledzki, L. A., and A. M. Ellison. 1998. Population growth and production of Habrotrocha rosa Donner (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) and its contribution to the nutrient supply of its host, the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea L. (Sarraceniaceae). Hydrobiologia 385: 193-200.
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  Gotsch, S. G.*, and A. M. Ellison. 1998. Seed germination of the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Northeastern Naturalist 5: 175-182.
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  Merkt, R. E.*, and A. M. Ellison. 1998. Geographic and habitat-specific morphological variation of Littoraria (Littorinopsis) angulifera (Lamarck, 1822). Malacologia 40: 279-295.
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  Murren, C. J.*, and A. M. Ellison. 1998. Seed dispersal characteristics of Brassavola nodosa (Orchidaceae). American Journal of Botany 85: 675-680.
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  Denslow, J. S., A. M. Ellison, & R. E. Sanford. 1998. Treefall gap size effects on above- and below-ground processes in a tropical wet forest. Journal of Ecology 86: 597-609.
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  1997

  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1997. Simulated sea level change alters anatomy, physiology, growth, and reproduction of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.). Oecologia 112: 435-446.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., & A. M. Ellison. 1997. The global conservation status of mangroves. Ambio 26: 328-334.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., & A. M. Ellison. 1997. Global patterns of pre-dispersal propagule predation in mangrove forests. Biotropica 29: 318-330.
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  1996

  Ellison, A. M., E. J. Farnsworth, and R. R. Twilley. 1996. Facultative mutualism between red mangroves and root-fouling sponges in Belizean mangal. Ecology 77: 2431-2444.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1996. An introduction to Bayesian inference for ecological research and environmental decision-making. Ecological Applications 6: 1036-1046.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., and A. M. Ellison. 1996. Scale-dependent spatial and temporal variability in biogeography of mangrove root epibiont communities. Ecological Monographs 66: 45-66.
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  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1996. Anthropogenic disturbance of Caribbean mangrove ecosystems: past impacts, present trends, and future predictions. Biotropica 28: 549-565.
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  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1996. Spatial and temporal variability in growth of Rhizophora mangle saplings on coral cays: links with variation in insolation, herbivory, and local sedimentation rate. Journal of Ecology 84: 717-731.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., Ellison, A. M., W. K. Gong. 1996. Elevated CO₂ alters anatomy, physiology, growth, and reproduction of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.). Oecologia 108: 599-609.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., and A. M. Ellison. 1996. Sun-shade adaptability of the red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle (Rhizophoraceae): changes through ontogeny at several levels of biological organization. American Journal of Botany 83: 1131-1143.
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  Murren, C. J.*, and A. M. Ellison. 1996. Effects of habitat, plant size, and floral display on male and female reproductive success of the neotropical orchid Brassavola nodosa. Biotropica 28: 30-41.
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  1995

  Ellison, A. M., and B. L. Bedford. 1995. Response of a wetland vascular plant community to disturbance: a simulation study. Ecological Applicatons 5: 109-123.
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  1994

  Ellison, A. M., P. M. Dixon, and J. Ngai*. 1994. A null model for neighborhood models of plant competitive interactions. Oikos 71: 225-238.
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  1993

  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1993. Seedling survivorship, growth, and response to disturbance in Belizean mangal. American Journal of Botany 80: 1137-1145.
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  Ellison, A. M., J. S. Denslow, B. A. Loiselle, and D. Brenes M. 1993. Seed and seedling ecology of neotropical Melastomataceae. Ecology 74: 1733-1749.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., and A. M. Ellison. 1993. Dynamics of herbivory in Belizean mangal. Journal of Tropical Ecology 9: 435-453.
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  Ellison, A. M., K. J. Niklas, and S. Shumway. 1993. Xylem vascular anatomy and water transport of Salicornia europaea. Aquatic Botany 45: 325-339.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1993. Exploratory data analysis and graphic display. Pages 14-45 in S. M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch, editors. Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments. Chapman & Hall, New York.
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  1992

  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1992. The ecology of Belizean mangrove-root fouling communities: patterns of epibiont distribution and abundance, and effects on root growth. Hydrobiologia 247: 87-98.
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  1991

  Ellison, A. M. 1991. Ecology of case-bearing moths (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) in a New England salt marsh. Environmental Entomology 20: 857-864.
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  Denslow, J. S., E. Newell, and A. M. Ellison. 1991. The effect of understory palms and cyclanths on the growth and survival of Inga seedlings. Biotropica 23: 225-234.
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  Farnsworth, E. J., and A. M. Ellison. 1991. Patterns of herbivory in Belizean mangrove swamps. Biotropica 23: 555-567.
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  Ellison, A. M., and D. Vam Vikites. 1991. Evolutionarily stable morphologies in pea populations. Evolution 45: 40-48.
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  1990

  Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 1990. The ecology of Belizean mangrove-root fouling communities. I. Epibenthic fauna are barriers to isopod attach of red mangrove roots. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 142: 91-104.
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  1989

  Ellison, A. M., and D. Rabinowitz. 1989. Effects of plant morphology and emergence time on size hierarchy formation in experimental populations of two varieties of cultivated peas (Pisum sativum). American Journal of Botany 76: 427-436.
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  Ellison, A. M., and C. D. Harvell. 1989. Size hierarchies in Membranipora membranacea: do colonial animals follow the same rules as plants? Oikos 55: 349-355.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1989. Morphological determinants of self-thinning in plant monocultures and a proposal concerning the role of self-thinning in plant evolution. Oikos 54: 287-293.
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  1988

  Ellison, A. M., and K. J. Nikas. 1988. Branching patterns of Salicornia europaea (Chenopodiaceae) at different successional stages: a comparison of theoretical and real plants. American Journal of Botany 75: 501-512.
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  1987

  Bertness, M. D., and A. M. Ellison. 1987. Determinants of pattern in a New England salt marsh plant community. Ecological Monographs 57: 129-147.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1987. Effects of competition, disturbance, and herbivory on Salicornia europaea. Ecology 68: 576-586.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1987. Density-dependent dynamics of Salicornia europaea monocultures. Ecology 68: 737-741.
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  Ellison, A. M. 1987. Effect of seed dimorphism on the density-dependent dynamics of experimental populations of Atriplex triangularis (Chenopodiaceae). American Journal of Botany 74: 1280-1288.
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  Bertness, M. D., C. Wise*, and A. M. Ellison. 1987. Consumer pressure and seed set in a salt marsh perennial plant community. Oecologia 71: 190-200.
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  1986

  Ellison, A. M., M. D. Bertness, and T. Miller. 1986. Seasonal patterns in the belowground biomass of Spartina alterniflora (Gramineae) across a tidal gradient American Journal of Botany 73: 1548-1554.
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  Metcalfe, W. S.*, A. M. Ellison, and M. D. Bertness. 1986. Survivorship and spatial development of Spartina alterniflora Loisel. (Gramineae) seedlings in a New England salt marsh. Annals of Botany 58: 249-258.
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  1983

  Ellison, A. M.*, and L. W. Buss. 1983. A naturally occurring developmental synergism between the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium mucoroides and the fungus, Mucor hiemalis. American Journal of Botany 70: 298-302.
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