Aaron M. Ellison
- Current research topics:
- Food webs in dynamic habitats
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The
concept of a food web is a major organizing principle for ecology. Standard theory
considers food webs to be predominantly equilibrial structures (with associated
statistical descriptors) in static (unchanging) habitats. Since 1996, I have been
working with Nick
Gotelli (University of Vermont)
on expanding the focus of food web theory to consider non-equilibrium food webs
in habitats that change on the same time scale during which food webs assemble.
For this work, I have used the the Sarracenia "microecosystem"
- the northern pitcher-plant Sarracenia purpurea and the unique food web
of bacteria, protozoa, rotifers, mites, and fly larvae that live within its rainwater-filled
leaves - as a model system (see reviews in Ellison
and Gotelli 2001, and Ellison
et al. 2003). This work has been supported by four grants from the U.S. National
Science Foundation: - Inquiline communities in
changeable pitchers: do nutrients link community assembly to dynamic habitats?
DEB 98-05722 (9/1/1998-2/28/2003)
[ Summary | Full proposal | Publications from this award | Available datasets ] - Biocomplexity
incubation activity: a synthetic approach to phytotelmata communities. DEB
00-83167 (8/1/2000-7/31/2002)
[ Summary | Full proposal | Publications from this award | Available datasets ] - Effects
of nutrient stress on a co-evolved food web. DEB 02-35128 (4/1/2003 - 3/31/2007)
[ Summary | Full proposal | Publications from this award | Available datasets ] - Mechanisms
of community re-assembly after a catastrophic fire. DEB 03-01361 (12/1/2002-11/31/2004)
[ Summary | Full proposal | Publications from this award | Available datasets ]
- Inquiline communities in
changeable pitchers: do nutrients link community assembly to dynamic habitats?
DEB 98-05722 (9/1/1998-2/28/2003)
- Spatial dimension of species interactions
- Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants
- Frank Morton Jones and carnivorous plant research in the early 20th century
- Foundation species in forests
- Arthropods of the Harvard Forest
- Statistics for ecologists
- Cyberinfrastructure tools for ecological synthesis
- Food webs in dynamic habitats
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