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Books

2022

Ellison, A. M., & M. V. Patel. 2022a. Success in Navigating Your Student Research Experience: Moving Forward in STEMM. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.
Ellison, A. M., & M. V. Patel. 2022b. Success in Mentoring Your Student Researchers: Moving STEMM Forward. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.
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2021

Ellison, A. M., & N. J. Gotelli. 2021. Scaling in Ecology with a Model System. Monographs in Population Biology #64, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
[ order the book from Princeton University Press  | Download a Docker Container (virtual machine) to reproduce all the analyses in the book (via EDI) ]

Kudos for Scaling in Ecology with a Model System

• Os Schmitz says "This engaging book is a wonderful example of how to do the kind of integrative science that the founders of ecology originally intended. Ellison & Gotelli offer the next generation of ecologists a new way to think about nature."
• Mary O'Connor says "This unique book provides a rare and complete synthesis of research and observations on a single study system, and is a superb example of ecological thinking that blends theory and empiricism."

Read the reviews of Scaling in Ecology with a Model System

1. Dormann, C. 2022. Basic and Applied Ecology 59: 19-20. [ pdf (local copy) ]

2019

Ellison, A. M., & F. S. Gilliam, editors. 2019. Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystemts. MDPI Books, Basel, Switzerland.
[Download the book as a pdf | Purchase a printed version from MDPI ]

2018

Ellison, A. M., & L. Adamec, editors. 2018. Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
[ Purchase Carnivorous Plants from Oxford University Press

Advanced publicity for Carnivorous Plants

1. Enter the carnivores: Caroline Wood writes about Carnivorous Plants and the symposium on them presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology [ pdf (local copy) ]
2. What's new in the world of carnivorous plants?  Simon Wood, Aaron Ellison, and symposia presenters present a summary of the symposia presented at the 2017 International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China and at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. Published in Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 47(1): 18-27 [ pdf (local copy) ] 

Read the reviews of Carnivorous Plants

1. Anon. 2018. Meet the meat-munching plants. Botany One, News and Views on Plant Biology and Ecology. [ pdf (local copy) | html (on the Botany One website) ]
2. Wilheim, G. 2018. American Midland Naturalist 180: 173-174. [ pdf (local copy) ]
3. Hedrich, R. 2018. From Darwin to today: what modern biology tells us about the life of the green flesh-eater. Current Biology 28: R640-R641. [pdf (local copy) ]
4. Owen, T. P. 2018. Choice 56. [ pdf (local copy) ]
5. Bocking, E. 2018. Canadian Field Naturalist 132: 191-192. [ pdf (local copy) ]
6. Veleba, A. 2018. Živa Magazine 2018/4: 110-111 (in Czech, with English translation). [ pdf (local copy) ]
7. Dann, L. 2019. The Biologist (Royal Society of Biology; online). [ pdf (local copy) | html (on The Biologist website) ]

Talks we gave about, and book-signings of, Carnivorous Plants

1. Talk and book-signing by Aaron Ellison at the New England Carnivorous Plant Society, March 17, 2018, 12:30-2:30pm, Roger Williams Park Botanical Center, Providence, Rhode Island.
2. Aaron Ellison on the April 24, 2018 Native Plants Podcast talks about carnivorous plants [ mp3 (local copy) ]
3. Talk and book-signing by Aaron Ellison at the Mid-Atlantic Carnivorous Plant Society, May 19, 2018, 1:00-3:00pm, Aquascapes Unlimited, Inc., Pipersville, Pennsylvania.
4. Aaron Ellison on the June 10, 2018 In Defense of Plants Podcast talks about carnivorous plants [ mp3 (local copy) ]. 
5. Symposium on Evolution, ecology, development and conservation of carnivorous plants, organized by Tanya Renner, Thomas Givnish, and Robert Naczi. At the Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, July 21-25, 2018, Rochester Civic Center, Rochester, Minnesota.
6. Talks and book-signings by Aaron Ellison, Ulrike Bauer, and Andreas Fleischmann at the biennial meeting of the International Carnivorous Plant Society Conference, August 3-5, 2018, Santa Rosa, California
7. At the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 5-10, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Lousiana.
1. Field trip to nearby carnivorous-plant field sites organized by Steve Brewer.
2. Inspire session on New directions in the ecology, conservation, and management of carnivorous plants, organized by Aaron Ellison.
8. Talk and book-signing by Aaron Ellison at the New England Carnivorous Plant Society annual fall show, September 8, 2018, Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts.
9. Talk and book-signing by Aaron Ellison at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, September 27, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia.
10. Talk and book-signing by Aaron Ellison at the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust's Pub-Science night, March 14, 2019, Millers Falls, Massachusetts.

2017

Ellison, A. M. 2017. Vanishing Point (photography, poetry, and prose from the Pacific Northwest). Self-published.
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Shavit, A., & A. M. Ellison, editors. 2017. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
[ Purchase Stepping in the Same River Twice from Yale University Press ]

Read the reviews of Stepping in the Same River Twice

1. In Choice, March 2018. [ pdf (local copy) ]
2. Klymkowksy, M. 2018. Quarterly Review of Biology [ pdf (local copy) ]

2012

Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, G. Alpert, & E. J. Farnsworth. 2012. A Field Guide to the Ants of New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
[ Order the Field Guide from Yale University Press | Web-site (includes ants in the news, upcoming field trips and booksignings, data, maps, checklists, etc.) ]

Awards for The Field Guide

1. April 2013: The New England Society in New York City awards The Field Guide the 2013 award for Specialty Title in Science and Nature [ press release ]
2. May 2013: USA Book News awards The Field Guide the 2013 International Book Award in General Science

Read the reviews of The Field Guide

1. In Publishers Weekly, 27 August 2012. [ pdf | html direct from Publishers Weekly ]
2. "Noteworthy Books" of the Northeastern Naturalist (Fall 2012).
3. In the Naturalist's Journal column of the Southern Rhode Island Newspapers (30 November 2012; appears in Narragansett Times, North Kingstown Standard-Times, Chariho Times, Covernty Courier, and East Greenwich Pendulum). [ pdf (local copy) ]
4. Riutta, J. 2012. The Well-read Naturalist. December 2012 [ pdf (local copy) | html direct from The Well-read Naturalist ]
5. King, J. R. and J. C. Trager. 2013. Myrmecological News 18: 59-60. [ pdf (local copy) ]
6. Lubertazzi, D. 2013. Rhode Island Natural History Survey, posted January 29, 2013 [ pdf (local copy) | html direct from RINHS ]
7. Waltermire, J. 2013. Northern Woodlands 20(1): 68. [ pdf (local copy) ]
8. Anonymous. 2013. Off the Shelf. Harvard Magazine March-April 2013: 16 [ pdf | html direct from Harvard Magazine ]
9. Anonymous. 2013. The Green (Quote unquote). Vermont Quarterly Spring 2013: 12 [ pdf (local copy) ]
10. Anonymous. 2013. Spotlight Books, Ecology 94 (3): 770 [ pdf (local copy) ]
11. Brass, D. A. 2013. Review in Choice Reviews [ pdf (local copy) ]
12. Anonymous. 2013. Review in Wings, Fall 2013 [ pdf (local copy) ]
13. Pontin, J. 2015. Book review in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 216 [ pdf (local copy) ]

2012 / 2004

Gotelli, N. J., & A. M. Ellison. 2012. A Primer of Ecological Statistics, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA. (First edition - green cover - was published in 2004)
[ Purchase this book directly from Oxford University Press | Data files, software, and code from the second edition | Data files, software, and code from the first edition| Errata from the second edition | Errata from the first edition  ]

Read the reviews of the First Edition 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]

Read the reviews of the Second Edition of the Primer

1. Gillingham, M. 2013. The American Statistician 67: 264 [pdf]

Software

2020

Lerner, B., E. Boose, E. Fong, L. Perez, T. Pasquier, M. Lau, Y. Pruksachatkun, A. Liu, M. P. Phyu, C. Gregorich-Trevor, A. Ellison, M. Seltzer, J. Wonsil, & O. Brand. 2020. rdtLite: Provenance Collector, version 1.3. [ Download from CRAN | Development version on Github ]

2015

Gotelli, N. J., E. Hart, and A. M. Ellison. 2015. EcoSimR: Null Model Analysis for Ecological Data version 0.1.0. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.16636s.

Journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings

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Preprints

Cooper, N., A. Clark, N. Lecomte, H. Qiao, & A. M. Ellison. 2024. Harnessing large language models for coding, teaching, and inclusion to empower research in ecology and evolution. EcoEvoRxiv DOI: 10.32942/X2PS48. [ Read the version as published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution ]

Park, I. W., T. Ramirez-Parada, S. Record, C. Davis, A. M. Ellison, & S. J. Mazer. 2023. Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population-level flowering displays. Authorea DOI: 10.22541/au.168596836.65048736/v1. [ Read the version as published in Ecography ]

Peng, S., T. Parada, S. Mazer, S. Record, I. Park, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2023. Phenologically-informed species distribution models (SDMs) forecast less species loss and turnover versus standard SDMs. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.05.547862. [ Read the version as published in New Phytologist ]

Ramirez-Parada, T. H., I. W. Park, S. Record, C. C. Davis, A. M. Ellison, & S. J. Mazer. 2024. Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary driver of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America. Nature Portfolio DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3131821/v1. [ Read the version as published in Nature Ecology & Evolution ]

Acosta, J. R. Vallejos, A. M. Ellison, F. Osorio, & M de Castro. 2022. Comparing two spatial variables with the probability of agreement. arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.07598. [ Read the version as published in Biometrics ]

Park, D., G. Lyra, A. M. Ellison, R. Maruyama, D. Torquato, R. Asprino , B. Cook, & C. C. Davis. 2022. Herbarium records provide reliable estimates of phenology in the understudied tropics. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.19.504574. [ Read the version as published in Journal of Ecology ]

Siddig, A. A. H. & A. M. Ellison. 2022. How is the coup impacting science and scientists in Sudan? AfricArXiv DOI: 10.31730/osf.io/u2p7h. 

Ellison, A. M. & D. B. Borden. 2021. Constructive friction creates a third space for art/science collaborations. SocArXiv DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ms3gq. [ Read the version as published in Leonardo ]

Orwig, D. A., J. A. Aylward, H. L. Buckley, B. S. Case, & A. M. Ellison. 2021. Land-use history impacts spatial patterns and composition of woody plant species across a 35-hectare temperate forest plot. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.07.438791. [ Read the version as published in PeerJ ]

Almeida, R. P. S., R. R. Silva, A. C. Lôla da Costa, L. V. Ferreira, P. Meir, & A. M. Ellison. 2020. Induced drought strongly affects richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in the eastern Amazon. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.10.242180. [ Read the version as published in Oecologia ]

Davis, C. C., J. Champ, D. S. Park, I. Breckheimer, G. M. Lyra, J. Xie, A. Joly, D. Tarapore, A. M. Ellison, & P. Bonnet. 2020. A new method for counting reproductive structures in digitized herbarium specimens using Mask R-CNN. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.25.169888. [ Read the version as published in Frontiers in Plant Science ]

Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, J. L. Butler, & L. A. Bledzki. 2020. Regulaton of food-web structure in the Sarracenia microecosystem. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.15.098004. [ Read the version as published in American Midland Naturalist ]

Northrop, A. C., V. Avalone, A. M. Ellison, B. A. Ballif, & N. J. Gotelli. 2020. Counterclockwise hysteresis and complex dynamics in an enriched aquatic ecosystem. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.01.073239. [ Read the version as published in Ecology Letters ]

Park, D. S., I. K. Breckheimer, G. Lyra, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2020. Phenological displacement is uncommon among sympatric angiosperms. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.04236935v1. [ Read the version as published in New Phytologist ]

Ma, Z. & A. M. Ellison. 2020a. Risks and etiology of bacterial vaginosis revealed by species dominance network analysis. medRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.23.20104208. [ Read the version as published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal ]

Ma, Z. & A. M. Ellison. 2020b. Towards a unifying diversity-area relationship (DAR) of species- and gene-diversity. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.05/16.099861. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere ]

Qiao, X., J. Zhang, Y. Xu, X. Mi, M. Cao, W. Ye, G. Jin, Z. Hao, X. Wang, X. Want, S. Tian, X. Li, W. Xiang, Y. Liu, Y. Shao, K. Xu, W. Sang, F. Zeng, M. Jiang, H. Ren, & A. M. Ellison. 2020. Foundation species across a latitudinal gradient in China. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.15.986182. [ Read the version as published in Ecology ]

Vallejos, R., J. Pérez, A. M. Ellison, & A. D. Richardson. 2019. A spatial concordance correlation coefficient with an application to image analysis. arXiv DOI: arXiv:1905.05016. [ Read the version as published in Spatial Statistics ]

Buckley, H. L., N. J. Day, B. S. Case, G. Lear, & A. M. Ellison. 2019. Multivariate methods for testing hypotheses of temporal community dynamics. bioRxiv: 10.1101/362822. [ Read the version as published in PeerJ ]

Ellison, A. M. & D. B. Borden. 2018. Hemlock Hospice: Landscape ecology, art, and design as science communication. socArxiv 10.31235/osb.io/tw5ga. [ Read the version as published in the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies ]

Lau, M. K., A. M. Ellison, A. Nguyen, C. Penick, B. DeMarco, N. J. Gotelli, N. J. Sanders, R. Dunn, & S. H. Cahan. 2018. Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/302679. [ Read the version as published in PeerJ ]

Berberich, G. M., M. B. Berberich, & A. M. Ellison. 2017. Fluctuations of gas concentrations in three mineral springs of the East Eifel Volcanic field (EEVF). arXiv DOI: arXiv:1710.04128 [ Read the version as published in Geosciences ]

Berberich, G. M., A. M. Ellison, J. Hartmann, M. B. Berberich, A. Grumpe, A. Becker, & C. Wöhler. 2017. Red wood-ant nests are traps for fault-related CH4 micro-seepage. bioRxiv  DOI: 10.1101/154245. [ Read the version as published in Animals ]

Daru, B. H., D. S. Park, R. Primack, C. G. Willis, D. S. Barrington, T. J. S. Whitfield, T. G. Seidler, P. W. Sweeney, D. R. Foster, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2017. Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/165480 [ Read the version as published in New Phytologist ].

Felson, A. J., and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Designer food webs: from build-it-and-they-will-come to intentionality-in-design. PeerJ Preprints DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3375v1. [ Read the version as published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ]

Ma, S., & A. M. Ellison. 2017. A new dominance metric and its application to diversity-stability analysis. arXiv: DOI https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08835. [ Read the version as published in Ecological Monographs ]

McDevitt, A. L., M. V. Patel, & A. M. Ellison. 2017. Lessons and recommendations from three decades as an NSF REU Site: A call for systems-based assessment. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/162289. [ Read the version as published in Ecology & Evolution ]

Park, D. S., A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2017. Selfing species exhibit diminished niche breadth over time. bioRxiv  DOI:10.1101/157974. [ Read the version as published in Global Ecology and Biogeography ]

Wang, Y., B. S. Case, S. Rossi, L. Zhu, E. Liang, & A. M. Ellison. 2017. Spring frost controls spring tree phenology along elevational gradients on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/158733. [ Read the version as published in International Journal of Biometeorology ]

Zhu, J. J., X. Zheng, G. G. Wang, B. F. Wu, S. R. Liu, C. Z. Yan, Y. Li, U. R. Sun, Q. L. Yan, Y. Zeng, S. L. Lu, X. F. Li, L. N. Song, Z. B. Hu, K. Yang, N. N. Yan, X. S. Li, T. Gao, J. X. Zhang, & A. M. Ellison. 2017. Assessment of the world's largest afforestation program: success, failure, and future directions. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/105619.

Del Toro, I., G. Berberich, R. R. Ribbons, M. Berberich, N. J. Sanders, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Nests of red wood ants (Formica rufa-group) are positively associated with tectonic faults: a double-blind test. bioRxiv DOI 10.1101/113571 [ Read the version as published in PeerJ ]

Lau, M. K., S. R. Borrett, B. Baiser, N. J. Gotelli, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Ecological network metrics: opportunities for synthesis. bioRxiv: DOI 10.1101/125781. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere ]

Case, B. S., H. L. Buckley, A. A. Barker Plotkin, D. A. Orwig, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. When a foundation crumbles: forecasting forest community dynamics following the decline of the foundation species Tsuga canadensis. bioRxiv DOI 10.1101/099333. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere ]

Chen, Y., Y. Zheng, Q. Liu, Y. Song, Z. An, Q. Ma, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Atmospheric deposition exposes pandas to toxic pollutants. bioRxiv DOI 10.1101/079632. [ Read the version as published in Ecological Applications ]

Lau, M. K., B. Baiser, N. J. Gotelli, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Regime shifts, alternative states and hysteresis in the Sarracenia microecosystem. bioRxiv DOI 10.1101/087296. [ Read the version as published in Ecological Modelling ]

Li, X., E. Liang, J. Gricar, S. Rossi, K. Cufar, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Critical minimum temperature limits xylogenesis and maintains treelines on the Tibetan Plateau. bioRxiv DOI 10.1101/093781. [ Read the version as published in Science Bulletin ]

McDevitt, A. L., M. V. Patel, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Insights into student gains from undergraduate research using pre/post assessments. PeerJ Preprints DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1981.v1. [ Read the version as published in BioScience ]

Milcu, A., R. Puga-Freitas, A. M. Ellison, et al. 2016. Systematic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/080119 [ Read the version as published in Nature Ecology & Evolution ]

Northrop, A. C., R. Brooks, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, & B. A. Ballif. 2016. Metaproteomics reveals taxonomic and functional changes in an enriched aquatic ecosystem. bioRxiv: DOI: 10.1101/040402. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere ]

Record, S., T. McCabe, B. Baiser, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Are foundation species different than those of dominant species: a case study of ant assemblages in northeastern North American forests. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/062265. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere ]

Shavit, A., A. Kolumbus, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Two roads diverge in a wood: indifference to the difference between 'diversity' and 'heterogenetiy' should be resisted on epistemic and moral grounds. PhilSci Archive http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/12432. [ Read the version as published in The Journal of Philosophy ]

Silva, R. R., I. Del Toro, C. R. F. Brandao, & A. M. Ellison. 2016. Morphological structure of ant assemblages in tropical and temperate forests. bioRxiv: DOI: 10.1101/065417.

Degrassi, A., S. T. Brantley, C. R. Levine, R. Miller, J. Mohan, S. Record, & A. M. Ellison. 2015. The loss of foundation species revisited. PeerJ Preprints DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1409v1. [ Read the version as published in Ecosphere and related publication in Journal of Vegetation Science ]

2024

Peng, S., T. Parada, S. Mazer, S. Record, I. Park, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2024. Incorporating plant phenological responses into species distribution models reduces estimates of future species loss and turnover. New Phytologist. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and Code (via Dryad) ]

Barker Plotkin, A. A., D. A. Orwig, M. MacLean, & A. M. Ellison. 2024. Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species. Ecological Applications 34: e2957. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) ]

Ramirez-Parada, T. H., I. W. Park, S. Record, C. C. Davis, A. M. Ellison, & S. J. Mazer. 2024. Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary driver of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8(3): 467-476. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and Code (via Zenodo) ]

Acosta, J. R. Vallejos, A. M. Ellison, F. Osorio, & M de Castro. 2024. Comparing two spatial variables with the probability of agreement. Biometrics 80(1): ujae009. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) Data and Code (via GitHub) ]

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2023

Ellison, A. M. 2023. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: On our quattuordecennial, a good Methods paper still is not about my friend the dolphin. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(12): 2904-2906. [ Reprint (pdf as published) ]

Epstein, Y., A. M. Ellison, H. Echeverria, & J. K. Abbott. 2023. Science and the legal rights of nature. Science 380: eadf4155. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) ]

Jenkins, G. B., A. P. Beckerman, C. Bellard, A. Benítez-López, A. M. Ellison, C. G. Fote, A. L. Hufton, M. A. Lashley, C. J. Lortie, Z. Ma, A. J. Moore, S. R Narum, J. Nilsson, B. O’Boyle, D. B. Provete, O. Razgour, L. Rieseberg, C. Riginos, L. Santini, B. Sibbett, & P. R. Peres-Neto. 2023. Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code. Ecology and Evolution 13: e9961. [ Reprint (pdf as published) ]

Park, D., Y. Xie, A. M. Ellison, G. Lyra, & C. C. Davis. 2023. Complex climate-mediated effects of urbanization on plant reproductive phenology and frost risk. New Phytologist 239(6): 2153-2165. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and Code (via Zenodo) ]

Park, D., G. Lyra, A. M. Ellison, R. Maruyama, D. Torquato, R. Asprino , B. Cook, & C. C. Davis. 2023. Herbarium records provide reliable estimates of phenology in the understudied tropics. Journal of Ecology 111: 327-337. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and Code (via EDI) ]

Almeida, R. P. S., R. R. Silva, A. C. Lôla da Costa, L. V. Ferreira, P. Meir, & A. M. Ellison. 2023. Induced drought strongly affects richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in the eastern Amazon. Oecologia 201: 299-309. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and Code (via EDI) ]

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2022

Lerner, B., E. Boose, O. Brand, A. M. Ellison, E. Fong, M. K. Lau, K. Ngo, T. Pasquier, L. Perez, M. Seltzer, R. Sheehan, & J. Wonsil. 2022. Making provenance work for you. R Journal 14: 141-159. [ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | R Package (via CRAN) ]

Walker, K. E., C. Baldwin, G. C. Conroy, G. Applegate, C. Archer-Lean, A. H. Arthington, L. Behrendorff, B. L. Gilby, W. Hadwen, C. J. Henderson, C. Jacobsen, D. Lamb, S. N. Lieske, S. M. Ogbourne, A. D. Olds, L. Ota, J. Ribbe, S. Sargent, V. Schaffer, T. A. Schlacher, N. Stevens, S. K. Srivastava, M. A. Weston & A. M. Ellison. 2022. Ecological and cultural understanding as a basis for management of a globally significant island landscape. Coasts 2: 152-202. 
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Davis, C. C., G. M. Lyra, D. S. Park, R. Asprino, R. Maruyama, D. Torquato, B. I. Cook, & A. M. Ellison. 2022. New directions in tropical phenology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 683-693.
[ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data (via EDI) ]

Ellison, A. M., R. B. O'Hara, N. Cooper, & N. Lecomte. 2022. An open future for MEE. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1372-1373.
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Zeigler, E. & A. M. Ellison. 2022. Learning to see differently. Pages 146-159 in J. Lee, S. Beene, X. Chen, W. Huang, L. Okan, and F. Rodrigues, editors. Seeing Across Disciplines: The Book of Selected Readings 2022. International Visual Literacy Association, Stockton, New Jersey, USA.
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Orwig, D. A., J. A. Aylward, H. L. Buckley, B. S. Case, & A. M. Ellison. 2022. Land-use history impacts spatial patterns and composition of woody plant species across a 35-hectare temperate forest plot. PeerJ 9: e12693.
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Ellison, A. M. & D. B. Borden. 2022. Constructive friction creates a third space for art/science collaborations. Leonardo 55: 283-288.
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2021

Ellison, A. M. & N. J. Gotelli. 2021. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and humans: from inspiration and metaphor to 21st-century symbiont. Myrmecological News 31: 225-240.
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Ma, Z. & A. M. Ellison. 2021. Towards a unified diversity-area relationship (DAR) of species- and gene-diversity illustrated with human gut metagenome. Ecosphere 12(11): e03807.
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Park, D. S., I. K. Breckheimer, G. Lyra, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2021. Phenological displacement is uncommon among sympatric angiosperms. New Phytologist 233: 1466-1478.
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Shavit, A. & A. M. Ellison. 2021. Diversity is conflated with heterogeneity. The Journal of Philosophy 118:525-548.
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Ellison, A. M. & D. B. Borden. 2021. Hemlock Hospice: Landscape ecology, art, and design as science communication. Pages 488-502 in H. S. Rogers, M. K. Halpern, D. Hannah, and K. de Ridder-Vignone, editors. The Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies.
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Ellison, A. M., A. A. Barker Plotkin, M. V. Patel, & S. Record. 2021. Broadening the ecological mindset. Ecological Applications 31: e02347 (part of a Forum: The Diversity Challenge Confronts Ecology).
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Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, J. L. Butler, & L. A. Bledzki. 2021. Regulation of food-web structure in the Sarracenia microecosystem. American Midland Naturalist 186: 1-15.
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Ma, Z. & A. M. Ellison. 2021. In silico trio biomarkers for bacterial vaginosis revealed by species dominance network analysis. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19: 2979-2989. 
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Felson, A. & A. M. Ellison. 2021. Designing (for) urban food webs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 582041.
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Welti, E., A. Joern, A. M. Ellison, D. C. Lightfoot, S. Record, N. Rodenhouse, E. H. Stanley, & M. Kaspari. 2021. Meta-analysis of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts (Matters Arising). Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 589-591.
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Lu, S., E. Liang, J. J. Camarero, & A. M. Ellison. 2021. An unusually high shrubline at 5280 m on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology 102: e03310. 
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Qiao, X., J. Zhang, Z. Wang, Y. Xu, T. Zhou, X. Mi, M. Cao, W. Ye, G. Jin, Z. Hao, X. Wang, X. Wang, S. Tian, X. Li, W. Xiang, Y. Liu, Y. Shao, K. Xu, W. Sang, F. Zeng, H. Ren, M. Jiang, & A. M. Ellison. 2021. Foundation species across a latitudinal gradient in China. Ecology 102: e03234.
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Vizentin-Bugoni, J. J. Cordeiro, F. E. Fontúrbel, & A. M. Ellison. 2021. A camera and a click to democratize knowledge. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 102: e01805.
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Northrop, A. C., V. Avalone, A. M. Ellison, B. A. Ballif, & N. J. Gotelli. 2021. Clockwise and ounterclockwise hysteresis characterize state changes in the same aquatic ecosystem. Ecology Letters 24: 94-101.
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2020

Davis, C. C., J. Champ, D. S. Park, I. Breckheimer, G. M. Lyra, J. Xie, A. Joly, D. Tarapore, A. M. Ellison, & P. Bonnet. A new method for counting reproductive structures in digitized herbarium specimens using Mask R-CNN. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 1129.
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Finzi, A. C., M.-A. Giasson, A. A. Barker Plotkin, J. D. Aber, E. R. Boose, E. A. Davidson, M. C. Dietze, A. M. Ellison, S. D. Frey, E. Goldman, T. F. Keenan, J. M. Melillos, J. W. Munger, K. J. Nadelhoffer, D. A. Orwig, S. V. Ollinger, N. Pederson, A. D. Richardson, K. Savage, J. Tang, J. R. Thompson, C. A. Williams, S. C. Wofsy, Z. Zhou, & D. R. Foster. 2020 The carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term ecological research site: patterns, processes and responses to global change. Ecological Monographs 90: e01423.
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Vallejos, R., J. Pérez, A. M. Ellison, & A. D. Richardson. 2020. A spatial concordance correlation coefficient with an application to image analysis. Spatial Statistics 40: 100405.
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Ellison, A. M., E. R. Boose, B. S. Lerner, E. Fong, & M. Seltzer. People of Data: The End-to-End Provenance Project. Patterns 1(2): 100016.
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Ellison, A. M., A. J. Felson, & D. A. Friess. 2020. Mangrove rehabilitation and restoration as experimental adaptive management. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7: 327.
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McDevitt, A. L., M. V. Patel, & A. M. Ellison. 2020. Lessons and recommendations from three decades as an NSF REU Site: a call for systems-based assessment. Ecology & Evolution 10: 2710-2738.
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Ellison, A. M. 2020. Foraging modes of carnivorous plants. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 66: 101-112. 
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2019

Nguyen, A. D., M. Brown, J. Zitnay, S. H. Cahan, N. J. Gotell, A. Arnett, & A. M. Ellison. 2019. Trade-offs in cold resistance at the northern range edge of the common woodland ant Aphaenogaster picea (Formicidae). The American Naturalist 194: E151-E163.
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Ellison, A. M. & D. B. Borden. 2019. Ecological art: aesthetics, communication, provocation, or call to action. The Goose 17(2): 3.
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Degrassi, A. L., S. Brantley, C. R. Levine, J. Mohan, S. Record, D. F. Tomback, & A. M. Ellison. 2019. Loss of foundation species revisited: conceptual framework with lessons learned from eastern hemlock and whitebark pine. Ecosphere 10: 02917.
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Wang, Y., B. Case, A. M. Ellison, S. Pial, J. Peñuelas, H. Zhu, L. Zhu, E. Liang, & J. J. Camarero. Fire facilitates warming-induced upward shifts of alpine treelines by altering interspecific interactions. Trees 33: 1051-1061.
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Wang, Y., B. Case, S. Rossi, E. Liang, & A. M. Ellison. 2019. Frost controls spring tree phenology of juvenile Smith fir along elevational gradients on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Biometeorology 63: 963-972.
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Berberich, G. M., M. B. Berberich, A. M. Ellison, & C. Wöhler. 2019. First identification of periodic degassing rhythms in three mineral springs of the East Eifel Volcanic field (EEVF, Germany). Geosciences 9: 189.
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Zhao, Y., Y.-P. Chen, A. M. Ellison, W.-G. Liu, & D. Chen. 2019. Establish an environmentally sustainable Giant Panda National Park in the Qinling Mountains. Science of the Total Environment 668: 979-987.
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Ellison, A. M. 2019. Foundation species, non-trophic interactions, and the value of being common. iScience 13: 254-268.
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Ma, S., & A. M. Ellison. 2019. Dominance network analysis provides a new framework for studying the diversity-stability relationship. Ecological Monographs. 89: e01358.
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Lau, M. K., A. M. Ellison, A. Nguyen, C. Penick, B. DeMarco, N. J. Gotelli, N. J. Sanders, R. R. Dunn, and S. Helms Cahan. 2019. Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients. PeerJ 7: e6447.
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Siddig, A. H., A. Ochs, and A. M. Ellison. 2019. Do terrestrial salamanders indicate ecosystem changes in New England forests? Forests 10: 154.
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Ellison, A. M., H. L. Buckley, B. S. Case, D. Cardenas, A. J. Duque, J. A. Lutz, J. A. Myers, D. A. Orwig, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2019. Species diversity associated with foundation species in temperate and tropical forests. Forests 10: 128.
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Ettinger, A. K., I. Chuine, B. I. Cook, J. S. Dukes, A. M. Ellison, M. R. Johnston, A. M. Panetta, C. R. Rollinson, Y. Vitasse, & E. M. Wolkovich. 2019. How do climate change experiments alter plot-scale climate? Ecology Letters 22: 748-763.
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Berberich, G. M., M. B. Berberich, A. M. Ellison, A. Grumpe, & C. Wöhler. 2019. First in situ identification of ultradian and infradian rhythms, and nocturnal locomotion activities of four colonies of red wood-ants (Formica rufa-group). Journal of Biological Rhythms 34: 19-38.
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2018

Ellison, A. M., D. A. Orwig, M. C. Fitzpatrick, & E. L. Preisser. 2018. The past, present, and future of the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) and its ecological interactions with eastern hemlock (Tsuga candensis) forests. Insects 9: 172.
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Park, D. S., I. Breckheimer, A. C. Williams, E. Law, A. M. Ellison, & C. C. Davis. 2018. Herbarium specimens reveal substantial and unexpected variation in phenological sensitivity across the eastern United States. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 274: 20170394. 
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Vallejos, R., H. Buckley, B. Case, J. Acosta, & A. M. Ellison. 2018. Sensitivity of codispersion to noise and error in ecological and environmental data. Forests 9: 679. 
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Ma, S., & A. M. Ellison. 2018. A unified concept of dominance applicable at both community and species scales. Ecosphere 9: e02477.
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Berberich, G. M., M.B. Berberich, A. M. Ellison, & C. Wöhler. 2018. Degassing rhythms and fluctuations of geogenic gases in a red wood-ant nest and in soil in the Neuwied Basin (East Eiffel Volcanic Field, Germany). Insects 9: 135.
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Lu, Y., R. Wang, Y. Shi, C. Su, J. Yuan, A. C. Johnson, A. Jenkins, R. C. Ferrier, D. Chen, H. Tian, J. Melillo, S. Song, & A. M. Ellison. 2018. Interaction between pollution and climate change augments ecological risk to a coastal ecosystem. Environmental Health and Sustainability 4: 161-168.
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Chen, Y.-P. Q. Liu, Q. Y. Ma, L. Maltby, & A. M. Ellison. 2018. Environmental toxicants impair liver and kidney function and sperm quality of captive pandas. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 162: 218-224.
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Błedzki, L.  A., J. L. Bubier, A. M. Ellison, & T. R. Moore. 2018. Ecology of rotifers and their unappreciated source of nitrogen and phosphorus in temperate northeastern American bogs. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 191: 277-287.
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Pasquier, T., M. K. Lau, X. Han, E. Fong, B. S. Lerner, E. Boose, M. Crosas, A. M. Ellison, & M. Seltzer. 2018. Sharing and preserving computational analyses for posterity with encapsulator. Computing in Science and Engineering 2018: 111-124.
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Lau, M. K., B. Baiser, N. J. Gotell,, & A. M. Ellison. 2018. Regime shifts, alternative states, and hysteresis in the Sarracenia microecosystem. Ecological Modelling 382: 1-8. 
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Chen, Y.-P., A. M. Ellison, & Y. -L. Lu. 2018. Establish a special conservation zone for the captive giant panda. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 4: 29-33. 
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Berberich, G. M., A. M. Ellison, M. B. Berberich, A. Grumpe, A. Becker, & C. Wöhler. 2018. Can a wood-ant nest be associated with fault-related CH₄ micro-seepage? A case study from continuous short-term in-situ sampling. Animals 8: 46.
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Park, D. S., A. M. Ellison, and C. C. Davis. 2018. Mating system does not predict niche breadth. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 804-813. 
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Poppinga, S., F. Alamsyah, U. Bauer, A. Fleischmann, M. Horstmann, S. Klink, S. Kruppert, Q. Lin, U. Müller, A. Northrop, B. Płachno, A. Prins, M. Scharmann, D. Sirová, L. Skates, A. Westermeier, and A. M. Ellison. 2018. What's new in the world of carnivorous plants - Summary of two symposia held in July 2017. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 47(1): 18-27
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Ellison, A. M. 2018. A sense of scale. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 9: 173-199.
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Ellison, A. M., C. J. LeRoy, K. J. Landsbergen, and E. Bosanquet. 2018. Art/science collaborations: new explorations of ecological systems, values, and their feedbacks. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 99: 180-191.
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Record, S., T. McCabe, B. Baiser, & A. M. Ellison. 2018. Identifying foundation species in North American forests using long-term data on ant assemblage structure. Ecosphere 9: e02139
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Ren, P., S. Rossi, J. J. Camarero, S. Piao, A. M. Ellison, E. Liang, & J. Peñuelas. 2018. Critical temperature and precipitation thresholds for the onset of xylogenesis of Juniperus przewalskiiin a semi-arid area of the northeastern Tibetan plateau. Annals of Botany 121: 617-624. 
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Milcu, A., R. Puga-Frietas, A. M. Ellison, M. Blouin, S. Scheu, G. T. Freschet, L. Rose, S. Barot, S. Cesarz, N. Eisenhauer, T. Girin, D. Assandri, M. Bonkowski, N. Buchmann, O. Butenschoen, S. Devidal, G. Gleixner, A. Gessler, A. Gigon, A. Greiner, C. Grignani, A. Hansart, Z. Kayler, M. Lange, J.-C. Lata, J.-F. Le Galliard, M. Lukac, N. Mannerheim, M. E. H. Müller, A. Pando, P. Rotter, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, R. Seyhun, K. Urban-Mead, A. Weigelt, L. Zavattaro, and J. Roy. 2018. Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2: 279-287.
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Ellison, A. M. & L. Adamec. 2018. The future of research with carnivorous plants. Pages 404-405 in A. M. Ellison & L. Adamec, editors. Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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Fitzpatrick, M. C. & A. M. Ellison. Estimating the exposure of carnivorous plants to rapid climatic change. Pages 389-403 in A. M. Ellison & L. Adamec, editors. Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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Ellison, A. M. & L. Adamec. 2018. Introduction: what is a carnivorous plant? Pages 306 in A.M. Ellison & L. Adamec, editors. Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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Daru, B. H., D. S. Park, R. B. Primack, C. G. Willis, D. S. Barrington, T. J. S. Whitfield, T. G. Seidler, P. W. Sweeney, D. R. Foster, A. M. Ellison, and C. C. Davis. 2018. Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist 217: 939-955.
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2017

Del Toro, I., G. Berberich, R. R. Ribbons, M. Berberich, N. J. Sanders, and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Nests of red wood ants (Formica rufa-group) are positively associated with tectonic faults: a double-blind test. PeerJ 5: e3903.
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Chen, Y.-P., and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Don't say the gaint panda is not endangered. Journal of Earth Environment 8: 379-383.
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Williams, A. C., C. G. Willis, J. Goh, C. C. Davis, A. M. Ellison, & E. Law. 2017. Deja vu: Characterizing worker reliability using task consistency. Pages 197-205 in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing [HCOMP 2017]. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, USA. 
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Northrop, A. C., R. Brooks, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, and B. A. Ballif. 2017. Metaproteomics reveals taxonomic and functional changes in an enriched aquatic ecosystem. Ecosphere 8: e01954.
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Pasquier, T., M. K. Lau, A. Trisovic, E. R. Boose, B. Couturier, M. Crosas, A. M. Ellison, V. Gibson, C. R. Jones, and M. Seltzer. 2017. If these data could talk. Scientific Data 4: 170114. 
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Ellison, A. M., and A. L. Degrassi. 2017. All species are important, but some species are more important than others (Commentary). Journal of Vegetation Science 28: 669-671. 
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Case, B. S., H. L. Buckley, A. A. Barker Plotkin, D. A. Orwig, and A. M. Ellison. 2017. When a foundation crumbles: forecasting forest community dynamics associated with the decline of the foundation species, Tsuga canadensis. Ecosphere 8: e01893.
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Lau, M. K., S. R. Borrett, B. Baiser, N. J. Gotelli, and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Ecological network metrics: opportunities for synthesis. Ecosphere 8: e01900.
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Li X., E. Liang, J. Gričar, S. Rossi, K. Čufar, and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Critical minimum temperature limits xylogenesis and maintains treelines on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin 62: 804-812. 
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Chen, Y.-P., Y. Zhao, A. M. Ellison, Q. Liu, and Y. Zheng. 2017. PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) pose a risk to captive pandas. Environmental Pollution 226: 174-181.
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Diamond, S. E., L. Chick, C. A. Penick, L. M. Nichols, S. Helms Cahan, R. R. Dunn, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Sanders, and N. J. Gotelli. 2017. Heat tolerance predicts the importance of species interaction effects as the climate changes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57: 112-120.
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Shavit, A., and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Toward a taxonomy of scientific replication. Pages 3-22 in A. Shavit & A. M. Ellison, editors. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 
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Ellison A. M. 2017. Contingent repeatability of experiments in space and time. Pages 125-134 in A. Shavit & A. M. Ellison, editors. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 
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Ellison A. M. 2017. Best practices for creating replicable research. Pages 250-265 in A. Shavit & A. M. Ellison, editors. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 
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Gibb, H. et al. 2017. A global database of ant species abundances (data paper). Ecology 98: 883-884.
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Chen, Y.-P., Y.-J. Zheng, Q. Liu, Y. Song, Z.-S. An, Q.-Y. Ma, and A. M. Ellison. 2017. Atmospheric deposition exposes Qinling pandas to toxic pollutants. Ecological Applications 27: 343-348.
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2016

Siddig, A. A., A. M. Ellison, and B. Mathewson. 2016. Assessing the impacts of the decline of Tsuga canadensis stands on two amphibian species in a New England forest. Ecosphere 7: e01574.
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McDevitt, A. L., M. V. Patel, and A. M. Ellison. 2016. Insights into student gains from undergraduate research using pre/post assessments. BioScience 66: 1070-1078.
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Berberich, G. M., C. F. Dormann, D. Klimetzek, M. B. Berberich, N. J. Sanders, and A. M. Ellison. 2016. Detection probabilities for sessile organisms. Ecosphere 7: e01546.
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Diamond, S. E., L. M. Nichols, S. L. Pelini, C. A. Penick, G. W. Barber, S. H. Cahan, R. R. Dunn, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Sanders, and N. J. Gotelli. 2016. Climate warming destablizes forest ant communities. Science Advances 2:e1600842.
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Case, B. S., H. L. Buckley, A. Barker Plotkin, and A. M. Ellison. 2016. Using codispersion analysis to quantify temporal changes in the spatial pattern of forest stand structure. Chilean Journal of Statistics 7(2): 3-15.
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Buckley, H. L., B. S. Case, R. Vallejos, J. J. Camarero, E. Gutiérrez, E. Liang, Y. Wang, and A. M. Ellison. 2016. Detecting ecological patterns along environmental gradients: alpine treeline ecotones. Chance 29(2): 10-15.
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Chen, Y.-P., L, Maltby, Q. Liu, Y.-J. Zheng, A. M. Ellison, Q.-Y. Ma, and X.-M. Wu. 2016. Captive pandas are at risk from environmental toxins. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment  14: 363-367. 
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Liang, E., Y. Wang, S. Piao, X. Lu, J. J. Camarero, H. Zhu, L. Zu, A. M. Ellison, P. Ciais, and J. Peñuelas. 2016. Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 113: 4380-4385. 
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McNutt, M., K. Lenhert, B. Hanson, B. A. Nosek, A. M. Ellison, and J. L. King. 2016. Liberating field science samples and data. Science 351: 1024-1026.
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Ellison, A. M. 2016. Decomposition and memory. Pages 77-83 in N. Brodie, C. Goodrich, and F. J. Swanson, editors. Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-growth Forest. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.
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Wang, Y., N. Pederson, A. M. Ellison, H. L. Buckley, B. S. Case, E. Liang, and J. J. Camarero. 2016. Increased stem density and competition may diminish the positive effects of warming at alpine treeline. Ecology 97: 1668-1679.
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Buckley, H. L., B. S. Case, J. Zimmermann, J. Thompson, J. A. Myers, and A. M. Ellison.  2016. Using codisersion analysis to quantify and understand spatial patterns in species-environment relationships. New Phytologist 211: 735-749.
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Stanton-Geddes, J., A. Nguyen, L. Chick, J. Vincent, M. Vangala, R. R. Dunn, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Sanders, N. J. Gotelli, and S. H. Cahan 2016. Thermal reactionomes reveal divergent responses to thermal extremes in warm and cool-climate ant species. BMC Genomics 17: 171.
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Bittleston, L. S., N. E. Pierce, A. M. Ellison, and A. Pringle. 2016. Convergence in multispecies interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 269-280.
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Whitlock, M. C., J. L. Bronstein, E. M. Bruna, A. M. Ellison, C. W. Fox, M. A. McPeek, A. J. Moore, M. A. F. Noor, M. D. Rausher, L. H. Reisberg, M. G. Ritchie, and R. G. Shaw. 2016. A balanced data archiving policy for long-term studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 84-85.
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This article is a critique of an article by J. A. Mills et al. (2015), who then respond to our critique in Mills et al. (2016). Download the three-article exchange (pdf as published) ]

Buckley, H. L., B. S. Case, and A. M. Ellison. 2016. Using codispersion analysis to characterize spatial patterns in species co-occurrences. Ecology 97: 32-39.
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Juice, S. M., P. H. Templer, N. G. Phillips, A. M. Ellison, and S. L. Pelini. 2016. Ecosystem warming increases sap flow rates of northern red oak trees. Ecosphere 7: e01221.
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Ellison, A. M., A. A. Barker Plotkin, and S. Khalid. 2016. Foundation species loss and biodiversity of the herbaceous layer in New England forests. Forests 7(1): 9. 
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Siddig, A. A. H., A. M. Ellison, A. Ochs, C. Villar-Leeman, and M. K. Lau. 2016. How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators. Ecological Indicators 60: 223-230.
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2015

Davis, C. C., C. G. Willis, B. Connolly, C. Kelly, and A. M. Ellison. 2015. Herbarium records are reliable sources of phenological change driven by climate and provide novel insights into species' phenological cueing mechanisms. American Journal of Botany 102: 1599-1609.
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Wang, Y., E. Liang, A. M. Ellison, X. Lu, and J. J. Camarero. 2015. Facilitation stabilizes moisture-controlled alpine juniper shrublines in the central Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change 132: 20-30.
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Siddig, A. A., A. M. Ellison, and S. Jackson. 2015. Calibrating abundance indices with population size estimators of red back salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in a New England Forest. PeerJ 3: e952.
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Del Toro, I., R. R. Ribbons, and A. M. Ellison. 2015. Ant–mediated ecosystem functions on a warmer planet: effects on soil movement, decomposition and nutrient cycling. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 1233-1241.
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Del Toro, I., R. R. Silva, and A. M. Ellison. 2015. Predicted impacts of climatic change on ant functional diversity and distributions in eastern North American forests. Diversity and Distributions 21: 781-791.
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Kendrick, J. A., R. R. Ribbons, A. T. Classen, and A. M. Ellison. 2015. Changes in canopy structure and ant assemblages affect soil ecosystem variables as a foundation species declines. Ecosphere 6: 77
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2014

Pelini, S. L., S. E. Diamond, L. M. Nichols, K. L. Stubble, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Sanders, R. R. Dunn, and N. J. Gotelli. 2014. Geographic differences in effects of experimental warming on ant species diversity and community composition. Ecosphere 5: 125.
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Ellison, A. M. 2014. Experiments are revealing a foundation species: a case-study of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Advances in Ecology 2014, article 456904.
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Smart, S. M., A. M. Ellison, R. G. H. Bunce, R. H. Marrs, K. J. Kirby, A. Kimberley, W. A. Scott, and D. R. Foster. 2014. Quantifying the impact of an extreme climate event on species diversity in fragmented temperate forests: the effect of the October 1987 storm on British broadleaved woodlands. Journal of Ecology 102: 1273-1287.
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Ellison, A. M., M. Lavine, P. B. Kerson, A. A. Barker Plotkin, and D. A. Orwig. 2014. Building a foundation: land-use history and dendrochronology reveal temporal dynamics of a Tsuga canadensis (Pinaceae) forest. Rhodora 116: 377-427.
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Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, N. Hsiang, M. Lavine, and A. Maidman. 2014. Kernel density estimation of 2-dimensional spatial Poisson point processes from k-tree sampling. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 19: 357-372.
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Ellison, A. M. 2014. They really do eat insects: learning from Charles Darwin's experiments with carnivorous plants.  Pages 243-256 in M. J. Reiss, C. J. Boulter, and D. L Sanders, editors. Darwin-Inspired Learning. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.
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Kéfi, S., V. Guttal, W. A. Brock, S. R. Carpenter, A. M. Ellison, V. N. Livina, D. A. Seekell, M. Scheffer, E. H. van Nes, and V. Dakos. 2014. Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns. PLoS One 9(3): e92097.
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Ellison, A. M., C. C. Davis, P. J. Calie, and R. F. C. Naczi. 2014. Pitcher plants (Sarracenia) provide a 21st-century perspective on infraspecific ranks and interspecific hybrids: a modest proposal for appropriate recognition and usage. Systematic Botany 39: 939-949.
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Ellison, A. M., N. J. Gotelli, B. D. Inouye, and D. R. Strong. 2014. P values, hypothesis testing, and model selection: it's déjà vu all over again.  Ecology 95: 609-610.
[ Full text (Introduction to the Forum) | Read the entire forum (Article, comments, and reply) ]

Resasco, J., S. L. Pelini, K. L. Stuble, N. J. Sanders, R. R. Dunn, S. E. Diamond, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, and D. J. Levey. 2014. Using historical and experimental data to reveal warming effects on ant assemblages. PLoS One 9(2): e88029.
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Ellison, A. M. 2014. Preserving the picturesque: perceptions of landscape, landscape art, and land protection in the United States and China. land 3: 260-281.
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Ellison, A. M., and B. Baiser. 2014. Hemlock as a foundation species. Pages 93-104 in D. R. Foster, editor. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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Ellison, A. M., D. A. Orwig, and A. A. Barker Plotkin. 2014. Cut or girdle. Pages 136-152 in D. R. Foster, editor. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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Ellison, A. M. 2014. Reprise: Eastern hemlock as a foundation species. Pages 165-171 in D. R. Foster, editor. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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Ellison, A. M., and E. J. Farnsworth. 2014. Targeted sampling increases knowledge and improves estimates of ant species richness in Rhode Island. Northeastern Naturalist 21: NENHC-13 - NENHC-24.
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Chao, A., N. J. Gotelli, T. C. Hsieh, E. L. Snader, K. H. Ma, R. K. Colwell, and A. M. Ellison. 2014. Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies. Ecological Monographs 84: 45-67.
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2013

Baiser, B., N. Whitaker, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Modeling foundation species in food webs. Ecosphere 4: 146. 
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Giasson, M.-A., A. M. Ellison, R. D. Bowden, P. M. Crill, E. A. Davidson, J. E. Drake, S. D. Frey, J. L. Hadley, M. Lavine, J. M. Melillo, J. W. Munger, K. J. Nadelhoffer, L. Nicoll, S. V. Ollinger, K. E. Savage, P. A. Steudler, J. Tang, R. K. Varner, S. C. Wofsy, D. R. Foster, and A. C. Finzi. 2013. Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22-year synthesis. Ecosphere 4: 140. 
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Farnsworth, E. J., M. Chu, W. J. Kress, A. K. Neill, J. H. Best, R. D. Stevenson, G. W. Courtney, J. K. Vandyk, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Next-generation field guides. BioScience 63: 891-899.
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Diamond, S. E., C. Penick, S. L. Pelini, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotell, N. J. Sanders, and R. R. Dunn. 2013. Using physiology to predict the responses of ants to climatic warming. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: 965-974.
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Ellison, A. M. 2013. The suffocating embrace of landscape and the picturesque conditioning of ecology. Landscape Journal 32: 79-94.
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Fitzpatrick, M. C., N. J. Gotelli, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. MaxEnt vs. MaxLike: empirical comparisons with ant species distributions. Ecosphere 4: 55.
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*Sirota, J., B. Baiser, N. J. Gotelli, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Organic-matter loading determines regime shifts and alternative states in an aquatic ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110: 7742-7747.
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• Earth Day Highlight on NSF News, 22 April 2013 [ external link to NSF ]
• Picked up by the following blogs and feeds: Science Newsline.com (23 April) | ScienceDaily (23 April) | EcoEarth.Info (23 April) | Technobahn.com (23 April) | Redorbit.com (24 April) | Landscaping Cape Town (South Africa) (24 April) | Quest (Science for South Africa) (29 April)
• Featured in the Harvard Gazette, 22 April 2013 [ external link to Harvard Gazette ]
• Picked up by the following blogs and feeds: eWallstreeter.com (22 April) | SiloBreaker (22 April) | HowPlantsWork.com (23 April) | MastersConnection 2020
• Highlight on the Harvard Forest News & Highlights, 22 April 2013 [ html ]
• Picked up by the following blogs and feeds: Phys.org (23 April) | e! Science News (23 April) | ArteryNYC (23 April)
• Suggested by Inquire Botany as a new teaching tool, 25 April 2013
• Article in the Harvard Crimson, 2 May 2013 [ external link to Harvard Crimson ]
• Research featured on WAMC Radio's The Academic Minute, 25 November 2013

Baiser, B., H. L. Buckley, N. J. Gotelli, and A. M. Ellison. 2013 (2012). Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models. Oikos 122: 492-506. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00005.x
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• Featured on Science Daily, 2 April 2013 [ external link ]
• Picked up by the following blogs and feeds: Phys.org (2 April) | Redorbit.com (3 April) | LabSpaces.net (3 April)
• Highlighted by AAAS in Science Update, 16 April 2013 [ external link to podcast ]

Record, S., N. D. Charney, R. M. Zakaria, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Projecting global mangrove species and community distributions under climate change. Ecosphere 4: 34.
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Orwig, D.A., A. A. Barker Plotkin, E. A. Davidson, H. Lux, K. E. Savage, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Foundation species loss affects vegetation structure more than ecosystem function in a northeastern USA forest. PeerJ 1: e41. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.41
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Record, S., M. C. Fitzpatrick, A. O. Finley, S. Veloz, and A. M. Ellison. 2013. Should species distribution models account for spatial autocorrelation? A test of model projections across eight millenia of climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 760 -771.
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2012

Zhao, X., B. Sl. Lerner, L. J. Osterweil, E. R. Boose, and A. M. Ellison. 2012. Provenance support for rework. TaPP '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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Pelini, S. L., S. E. Diamond, H. MacLean, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, N. J. Sanders, and R. R. Dunn. 2012. Common garden experiments reveal uncommon responses across temperatures, locations, and species of ants. Ecology and Evolution 2: 3009-3115.
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Farnsworth, E. J., A. A. Barker Plotkin, and A. M. Ellison. 2012. The relative contributions of seed bank, seed rain, and understory vegetation dynamics to the reorganization of Tsuga canadensis forests after loss due to logging or simulated attack by Adelges tsugae. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42: 2090-2105.
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Diamond, S. E., L. M. Nichols, N. McCoy, C. Hirsch, S. L. Pelini, N. J. Sanders, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A physiological trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species to experimental climatic warming. Ecology 93: 2305-2312.
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Drummond, F. A., A. M. Ellison, E. Groden, and G. D. Ouellette. 2012. The ants  (Formicidae). Pages 29-35 in D. S. Chandler, D. Manski, C. Donahue, and A. Alyokhin, editors. Biodiversity of the Schoodic Peninsula: results of the insect and arachnid bioblitzes at the Schoodic District of Acadia National Park, Maine. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 206.
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Dakos, V., S. R. Carpenter, W. A. Brock, A. M. Ellison, V. Guttal, A. R. Ives, S. Kéfi, V. Livina, D. A. Seekell, E. H. van Nes, and M. Scheffer. 2012. Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data. PLoS ONE 7: e41010.
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Ellison, A. M. E. D. Butler, E. J. Hicks, R. F. C. Naczi, P. J. Calie, C. D. Bell, and C. C. Davis. 2012. Phylogeny and biogeography of the carnivorous plant family Sarraceniaceae. PLoS ONE 7: e39291.
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Ellison, A. M. 2012. Out of Oz: Opportunities and challenges for using ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as biological indicators in north-temperate cold biomes. Myrmecological News 17: 105-119. 
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Gotelli, N. J., A. M. Ellison, and B. A. Ballif. 2012. Environmental proteomics, biodiversity statistics and food web structure. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 436-442. 
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Lustenhouwer, M. N., L. Nicoll, and A. M. Ellison. 2012. Microclimatic effects of the loss of a foundation species from New England forests. Ecosphere 3: 26. 
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Fitzpatrick, M. C., E. L. Preisser, A. Polrter, J. S. Elkinton, and A. M. Ellison. 2012. Modeling range dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes: invasion of the hemlock woolly adelgid in eastern North America. Ecological Applications 22: 472-486. 
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Ellison, A. M. 2012. The ants of Nantucket: undexpectedly high biodiversity in an anthropogenic landscape. Northeastern Naturalist 19(Special Issue 6): 43-66. 
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2011

Bestelmeyer, B. T., A. M. Ellison, W. R. Fraser, K. B. Gorman, S. J. Holbrook, C. M. Laney, M. D. Ohman, D. P. C. Peters, F. C. Pillsbury, A. Rassweiler, R. J. Schmitt, and S. Sharma. 2011. Detecting and managing abrupt transitions in ecological systems. Ecosphere 2: art129.
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Sackett, T. E., S. Record, S. Bewick, B. Baiser, N. J. Sanders, and A. M. Ellison. 2011. Response of macroarthropod assemblages to the loss of hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), a foundation species. Ecosphere 2: 74.
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Baiser, B., R. Ardeshiri*, and A. M. Ellison. 2011. Species richness and trophic diversity increase decomposition in a co-evolved food web. PLoS One 6: e20672.
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Baiser, B., N. J. Gotelli, H. L. Buckley, T. E. Miller, and A. M. Ellison. 2011 (2012). Geographic variation in network structure of a Nearctic aquatic food web. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 579-581.
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Pelini, S. L., M. Boudreau, N. McCoy, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, N. J. Sanders, and R. R. Dunn. 2011. Effects of short-term warming on low and high latitude forest ant communities. Ecosphere 2: 62.
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Jenkins, C. N., N. J. Sanders, A. N. Andersen, X. Arnan, C. A. Brühl, X. Cerda, A. M. Ellison, B. L. Fisher, M. C. Fitzpatrick, N. J. Gotelli, A. D. Gove, B. Guénard, J. E. Lattke, J.-P. Lessard, T. P. McGlynn, S. B. Menke, C. L. Parr, S. M. Philpott, H. L. Vasconcelos, M. D. Weiser, and R. R. Dunn. 2011. Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants. Diversity and Distributions 17: 652-662.
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Ellison, A. M., and L. Adamec. 2011. Ecophysiological traits of terrestrial and aquatic carnivorous plants: are the costs and benefits the same? Oikos 120: 1721-1731.
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Gotelli, N. J., A. M. Smith, A. M. Ellison, and B. A. Ballif. 2011. Proteomic characterization of the major arthropod associates of the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Proteomics 11: 2354-2358.
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Dorazio, R. M., N. J. Gotelli, and A. M. Ellison. 2011. Modern methods of estimating biodiversity from presence-absence surveys. Pages 277-302 in: G. Venora, O. Grillo, and J Lopez-Pujol, editors. Biodiversity loss in a changing planet. InTech - Open Access Publisher, Croatia.
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Jules, E. S., A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, S. Lillie, G. A. Meindl, N. J. Sanders, and A. N. Young. 2011. The influence of fire on a rare serpentine plant assemblage: a five year study of Darlingtonia fens. American Journal of Botany 98: 801-811.
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Pelini, S. L., F. P. Bowles, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Gotelli, N. J. Sanders, and R. R. Dunn. 2011. Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2: 534-540.
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Oswald, W. W., E. D. Doughty, G. Ne'eman, R. Ne'eman, and A. M. Ellison. 2011. Pollen morphology and its relationship to taxonomy in the genus Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae). Rhodora 113: 235-251.
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Gotelli, N. J., A. M. Ellison, R. R. Dunn, and N. J. Sanders. 2011. Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists. Myrmecological News 15: 13-19.
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2010 

Weiser, M. D., N. J. Sanders, D. Agosti, A. N. Andersen, A. M. Ellison, B. L. Fisher, H. Gibb, N. J. Gotelli, A. D. Gove, K. Gross, B. Guénard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, J.-P. Lessard, J. T. Longino, J. D. Majer, S. B. Menke, T. P. McGlynn, C. L. Parr, S. M. Philpott, J. Retana, A. V. Suarez, H. L. Vasconcelos, S. P. Yanoviak, and R. R. Dunn. 2010. Canopy and litter ant asseblages share similar climate-species density relationships. Biology Letters 6: 769-772. 
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Gotelli, N. J., R. M. Dorazio, A. M. Ellison, and G. D. Grossman. 2010. Detecting temporal trends in species assemblages with bootstrapping procedures and hierarchical models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 365: 3621-3631.
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Fitzpatrick, M. C., E. L. Pressier, A. Porter, J. Elkinton, L. A. Waller, B. P. Carlin, and A. M. Ellison. 2010. Ecological boundary detection using Bayesian areal wombling. Ecology 91: 3448-3455. 
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Ellison, A. M. 2010. Partitioning diversity. Ecology 91: 1962-1963.
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Ellison, A. M., A. A. Barker-Plotkin, D. R. Foster, and D. A. Orwig. 2010. Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal Experiment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1: 168-179. 
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Buckley, H. L., T. E. Miller, A. M. Ellison, and N. J. Gotelli. 2010. Local to continental-scale variation in the richness and composition of an aquatic food web. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 711-723.
[ Abstract | Full Text (from Harvard's Preprint Archive) | Reprint (pdf as published) | Data and R code for hierarchical Bayesian models described in text (local copy) ]

Wittman, S. E., N. J. Sanders, A. M. Ellison, E. S. Jules, J. S. Ratchford, and N. J. Gotelli. 2010. Species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure. Oikos 119: 551-559. 
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Ellison, A. M. 2010. Repeatability and transparency in ecological research. Ecology 91: 2536-2539. 
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Ellison, A. M., and B. Dennis. 2010. Paths to statistical fluency for ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 362-370.
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Read a comment on this paper by Joshua Millspaugh and Robert Gitzen, and our reply, both published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 515-516 [ pdf ]

Polidoro, B. A., K. E. Carpenter, L. Collins, N. C. Duke, A. M. Ellison, J. C. Ellison, E. J. Farnworth, E. S. Fernando, K. Kathiresan, N. E. Koedam, S. R. Livingstone, T. Miyagi, G. E. Moore, V. N. Nam, J. E. Ong, J. H. Primavera, S. G. Salmo, III, J. C. Sanciangco, S. Sukardjo, Y. Wang, and Y. W. H. Yong. 2010. The loss of species: mangrove extinction risk and geographic areas of global concern. PLoS One 5: e10095. 
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Albani, M., P. R. Moorcroft and A. M. Ellison, D. A. Orwig, and D. R. Foster. 2010. Predicting the impact of hemlock woolly adelgid on carbon dynamics of eastern U.S. forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 119-133.
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Osterweil. L. J., L. A. Clarke, A. M. Ellison, E. Boose, R. Podorozhny, and A. Wise. 2010. Clear and precise specification of ecological data management processes and dataset provenance. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 7: 189-195.
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2009

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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Media coverage of the Biology Letters nectar paper:

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

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.
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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.
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Discussion of this paper in the blogosphere:

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

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
[ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | This paper is the lead article in a set of papers from the Second Meeting on Mangrove Macrobenthos (MMM2) | Data (local copy) ]

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.
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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(8): 1877-1888.
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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.
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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 | Reprint (pdf as published) | Erratum (corrected identification of Bombus species) html from BSA; pdf (local copy) ]

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.
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Non-technical stories about the PLoS Biology food-web paper (all pdfs are local copies):

• 25 September 2006: PLoS press release [ pdf ]
  • Reprinted on 26 September 2006 on brightsurf.com [ pdf ]
  • Picked up by AlphaGalileo.org on 26 September 2006 [ pdf ]
  • Picked up by NewsGuide.us on 26 September 2006 [ pdf ]
• 26 September 2006: by John Pickrell in New Scientist [ pdf ]
  • Shortened and reprinted 29 September 2006 on the Forest Conservation Portal [ pdf ]
  • Reprinted on 29 September 2006 on EcoEarth.Info [ pdf ]
  • Reprinted on 29 September 2006 on rainforestportal.org [ pdf ]
• 27 September 2006: by Daniel Lingenhöhl in SpektrumDirekt [ German pdf | English pdf ]
• 28 September 2006: by Jonathan Shurin in Nature (News and Views) [ pdf ]
• 29 September 2006: by Andrew Sugden in Science (Editors Choice: Highlights of the recent literature) [ pdf ]
• 29 September 2006: by Andrew Hyde in Innovations Report (Germany) [ pdf ]
• 15 November 2006: by Joshua Brown in The View (University of Vermot) [ 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 | Reprint (pdf as published) | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C ]
Appendices A and B are Flash Animations. Note that as of 2021, Adobe/Macromedia Flash Viewer is no longer supported by Adobe. Adobe provides some pointers on how to continue to view .swf files. A web search undoubtedly will uncover others.

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 | Reprint (pdf as published) | Read the commentary on this work by Joshua Brown in the Spring 2006 University of Vermont Quarterly (pdf; local copy) ]

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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.
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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. Although now out of print, the book can often be found used on Amazon.com or ABE Books.

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 3rd Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United States. US Department of Agriculture - US Forest Service - Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Morgantown, West Virginia.
[ Reprint (pdf as published) | Data (via EDI) | 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 | Reprint (pdf as published) | 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).
[ Reprint (pdf as published) | Purchase the book from the University of Chicago Press ]

Ellison, A. M. 2004. Bayesian inference in ecology. Ecology Letters 7: 509-520.
[ Abstract | Reprint (pdf as published) | 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.
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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 | Reprint (pdf as published) | 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.
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Read the review of this paper in the News & Comment section of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17: 305, 2002 (local copy)
Read the review of this paper in the Discoveries section of Northern Woodlands 9(4): 44, 2002 (local copy)

Ellison, A. M. 2002. Macroecology of mangroves: large-scale patterns and processes in tropical coastal forests. Trees: Structure & Function 16: 181-194.
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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.
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Read the review of this paper in the News & Comments section of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16: 541, 2001 (local copy)

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., A. M. Ellison, 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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