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Overview

Elise F. Zipkin is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in ecological modeling, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation. They explore topics that include species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors in Zipkin's work include Jeffrey W. Doser, Andrew O. Finley, Marc Kéry, Sarah P. Saunders, and Wendy Leuenberger. These collaborations have supported investigations spanning diverse ecological and environmental topics.

Key recent papers authored by Zipkin feature:

  • "Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss," 2020, published in Science
  • "Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Other notable recent papers related to Zipkin's field of study, though authored by coauthors, include:

  • "spOccupancy: An R package for single-species, multi-species, and integrated spatial occupancy models," 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Zipkin's publications frequently appear in journals and venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecology, and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. These platforms have hosted multiple contributions reflecting their sustained engagement in environmental and ecological research.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with substantial output in the following subfields:

  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research topics covered by Zipkin emphasize:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Data Analysis with R
  • Avian Ecology and Behavior
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Best Publications

  • Presence‐only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

    Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;Richard Chandler;Elise F. Zipkin;J. Andrew Royle

  • Impacts of forest fragmentation on species richness: a hierarchical approach to community modelling

    Elise F. Zipkin;Amielle DeWan;J. Andrew Royle

  • Multi-species occurrence models to evaluate the effects of conservation and management actions

    Elise F. Zipkin;J. Andrew Royle;Deanna K. Dawson;Scott Bates

  • Synthesizing multiple data types for biological conservation using integrated population models

    Elise F. Zipkin;Sarah P. Saunders

  • Correlation and persistence of hunting and logging impacts on tropical rainforest mammals.

    Jedediah F. Brodie;Anthony J. Giordano;Elise F. Zipkin;Henry Bernard

  • When can efforts to control nuisance and invasive species backfire

    Elise F. Zipkin;Clifford E. Kraft;Evan G. Cooch;Patrick J. Sullivan

  • Joint dynamic species distribution models: a tool for community ordination and spatio‐temporal monitoring

    James T. Thorson;James N. Ianelli;Elise A. Larsen;Leslie Ries

  • spOccupancy: An R package for single species, multispecies, and integrated spatial occupancy models

    Jeffrey W. Doser;Andrew O. Finley;Marc Kéry;Elise F. Zipkin

  • Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss.

    Elise F. Zipkin;Graziella V. DiRenzo;Graziella V. DiRenzo;Julie M. Ray;Sam Rossman;Sam Rossman

  • Evaluating the predictive abilities of community occupancy models using AUC while accounting for imperfect detection

    Elise F. Zipkin;Elise F. Zipkin;Evan H. Campbell Grant;William F. Fagan

  • Evaluating population viability and efficacy of conservation management using integrated population models

    Sarah P. Saunders;Francesca J. Cuthbert;Elise F. Zipkin

  • Strategies for fitting nonlinear ecological models in R, AD Model Builder, and BUGS

    Benjamin M. Bolker;Beth Gardner;Mark Maunder;Casper W. Berg

  • Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales

    Elise F Zipkin;Erin R Zylstra;Alexander D Wright;Sarah P Saunders;Sarah P Saunders

  • Oil palm plantations fail to support mammal diversity

    Sam Yue;Jedediah Farrell Brodie;Elise F. Zipkin;Henry Bernard

  • Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application

    Christine R Rollinson;Andrew O Finley;M Ross Alexander;Sudipto Banerjee

  • Occupancy dynamics in a tropical bird community: unexpectedly high forest use by birds classified as non‐forest species

    Viviana Ruiz-Gutiérrez;Elise F. Zipkin;André A. Dhondt

  • Modeling structured population dynamics using data from unmarked individuals

    Elise F. Zipkin;James T. Thorson;Kevin See;Heather J. Lynch

  • Overcompensatory response of a smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) population to harvest: release from competition?

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  • Tracking climate impacts on the migratory monarch butterfly

    Elise F. Zipkin;Elise F. Zipkin;Leslie Ries;Rick Reeves;James Regetz

  • How variable is recruitment for exploited marine fishes? A hierarchical model for testing life history theory

    James T. Thorson;Olaf P. Jensen;Elise F. Zipkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan H. Campbell Grant
Evan H. Campbell Grant United States Geological Survey
Leslie Ries
Leslie Ries Georgetown University
J. Andrew Royle
J. Andrew Royle United States Geological Survey
Peggy H. Ostrom
Peggy H. Ostrom Michigan State University
Yoshito Chikaraishi
Yoshito Chikaraishi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Evan G. Cooch
Evan G. Cooch Cornell University
Kay E. Holekamp
Kay E. Holekamp Michigan State University
Clifford E. Kraft
Clifford E. Kraft Cornell University
James T. Thorson
James T. Thorson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Morgan W. Tingley
Morgan W. Tingley University of Connecticut

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