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Aaron M. Ellison is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Plant Science, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of main topics in the scientific community such as Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Gut Microbiota and Health.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Aaron M. Ellison include:

  • Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists, 2023, ScholarWorks @UVM (University of Vermont)
  • Mangrove Rehabilitation and Restoration as Experimental Adaptive Management, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code, 2023, Ecology and Evolution
  • New directions in tropical phenology, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Frequent collaborators of Aaron M. Ellison include:

  • Manisha V. Patel
  • Charles C. Davis
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Goia de Mattos Lyra
  • Daniel Park

They have contributed often to several publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology and Evolution

Aaron M. Ellison has authored books published by Princeton University Press and Springer Nature (Netherlands). Titles include "Scaling in Ecology with a Model System" published in 2021 and "Success in Navigating Your Student Research Experience" along with "Success in Mentoring Your Student Researchers," both published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

    Anne Chao;Nicholas J. Gotelli;T. C. Hsieh;Elizabeth L. Sander

  • A Primer of Ecological Statistics

    Nicholas J. Gotelli;Aaron M. Ellison

  • Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems

    Aaron M. Ellison;Michael S. Bank;Barton D. Clinton;Elizabeth A. Colburn

  • A World Without Mangroves

    Norman C. Duke;Jan-Olaf Meynecke;Sabine Dittmann;Aaron M. Ellison

  • The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern

    Beth A. Polidoro;Kent E. Carpenter;Lorna Collins;Lorna Collins;Norman C. Duke

  • primer of ecological statistics

    Nicholas J. Gotelli;Aaron M. Ellison

  • Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data

    Vasilis Dakos;Vasilis Dakos;Stephen R. Carpenter;William A. Brock;Aaron M. Ellison

  • Bayesian inference in ecology

    Aaron M. Ellison

  • Determinants of Pattern in a New England Salt Marsh Plant Community

    Mark D. Bertness;Aaron M. Ellison

  • How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators

    Ahmed A.H. Siddig;Ahmed A.H. Siddig;Aaron M. Ellison;Alison Ochs;Claudia Villar-Leeman

  • An Introduction to Bayesian Inference for Ecological Research and Environmental Decision‐Making

    Aaron M. Ellison

  • Treefall gap size effects on above‐ and below‐ground processes in a tropical wet forest

    Julie S. Denslow;Aaron M. Ellison;Robert E. Sanford

  • Mangrove Restoration: Do We Know Enough?

    Aaron M. Ellison

  • Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

    Barnabas H. Daru;Daniel S. Park;Richard B. Primack;Charles G. Willis

  • Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns.

    Sonia Kéfi;Vishwesha Guttal;William A. Brock;William A. Brock;Stephen R. Carpenter;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Anthropogenic Disturbance of Caribbean Mangrove Ecosystems: Past Impacts, Present Trends, and Future Predictions

    Aaron M. Ellison;Elizabeth J. Farnsworth

  • Origins of mangrove ecosystems and the mangrove biodiversity anomaly

    Aaron M. Ellison;Elizabeth J. Farnsworth;Rachel E. Merkt

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants—Darwin's ‘most wonderful plants in the world’

    Aaron M. Ellison;Nicholas J. Gotelli

  • Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Aaron M. Ellison;William R. Fraser;Kristen B. Gorman

  • The global conservation status of mangroves

    E.J. Farnsworth;A.M. Ellison

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Hannah L. Buckley
Hannah L. Buckley Auckland University of Technology
Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
Charles C. Davis
Charles C. Davis Harvard University
David A. Orwig
David A. Orwig Harvard University
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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