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Overview

Ellen Andresen is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields of study including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their research include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ellen Andresen include Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Tarin Toledo-Aceves, Francisco Mora, Raquel L. Carvalho, and Heraldo L. Vasconcelos.

The scientist has published in various academic venues, with recurring publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biological Conservation, Ecological Applications, PLoS ONE, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Selected recent papers from Ellen Andresen's work include:

  • Comparing the success of active and passive restoration in a tropical cloud forest landscape: A multi-taxa fauna approach (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Does forest restoration assist the recovery of threatened species? A study of cloud forest amphibian communities (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Tropical forest loss impoverishes arboreal mammal assemblages by increasing tree canopy openness (2022, Ecological Applications)
  • Homogenization of terrestrial mammals in fragmented rainforests: the loss of species turnover and its landscape drivers (2021, Ecological Applications)
  • Does patch quality drive arboreal mammal assemblages in fragmented rainforests? (2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation)

Best Publications

  • The composition of Amazonian forests: patterns at local and regional scales

    John Terborgh;Ellen Andresen

  • Effect of forest fragmentation on dung beetle communities and functional consequences for plant regeneration

    Ellen Andresen

  • Dung beetles in a Central Amazonian rainforest and their ecological role as secondary seed dispersers

    Ellen Andresen

  • SEED DISPERSAL BY MONKEYS AND THE FATE OF DISPERSED SEEDS IN A PERUVIAN RAIN FOREST

    Ellen Andresen

  • Dung beetle community and functions along a habitat-disturbance gradient in the Amazon: a rapid assessment of ecological functions associated to biodiversity.

    Rodrigo Fagundes Braga;Vanesca Korasaki;Ellen Andresen;Julio Louzada

  • Effects of dung and seed size on secondary dispersal, seed predation, and seedling establishment of rain forest trees

    Ellen Andresen;Douglas J. Levey

  • The conservation value of human-modified landscapes for the world’s primates

    Carmen Galán-Acedo;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Ellen Andresen;Luis Verde Arregoitia

  • Effects of Season and Vegetation Type on Community Organization of Dung Beetles in a Tropical Dry Forest1

    Ellen Andresen

  • The role of dung beetles as secondary seed dispersers and their effect on plant regeneration in tropical rainforests.

    Ellen Andresen;Francois Feer

  • Effects of dung presence, dung amount and secondary dispersal by dung beetles on the fate of Micropholis guyanensis (Sapotaceae) seeds in Central Amazonia

    Ellen Andresen

  • Primary Seed Dispersal by Red Howler Monkeys and the Effect of Defecation Patterns on the Fate of Dispersed Seeds1

    Ellen Andresen

  • Possible Indirect Effects of Mammal Hunting on Dung Beetle Assemblages in Panama

    Ellen Andresen;Susan G. W. Laurance

  • Forest loss and matrix composition are the major drivers shaping dung beetle assemblages in a fragmented rainforest

    Hilda A. Sánchez-de-Jesús;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Ellen Andresen;Federico Escobar

  • Seed Dispersal by Monkeys and the Fate of Dispersed Seeds in a Peruvian Rain Forest

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  • Living on the edge: roads and edge effects on small mammal populations

    Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor;Alfredo D. Cuarón;Ella Vázquez-Domínguez;Julieta Benítez-Malvido

  • Primary Seed Dispersal by Red Howler Monkeys and the Effect of Defecation Patterns on the Fate of Dispersed Seeds<sup>1</sup>

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  • Ecological traits of the world's primates.

    Carmen Galán-Acedo;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Ellen Andresen;Ricard Arasa-Gisbert

  • Dung beetle assemblages in primary forest and disturbed habitats in a tropical dry forest landscape in western Mexico

    Ellen Andresen

  • Primate Seed Dispersal: Old and New Challenges

    Ellen Andresen;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Michelle Ramos-Robles

  • Temporal changes in the structure of a plant-frugivore network are influenced by bird migration and fruit availability.

    Michelle Ramos-Robles;Ellen Andresen;Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo

  • Seed Dispersal by Howler Monkeys: Current Knowledge, Conservation Implications, and Future Directions

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Ellen Andresen;Susana P. Bravo;Pablo R. Stevenson

  • Secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in a Colombian rain forest: effects of dung type and defecation pattern on seed fate.

    Carolina Santos-Heredia;Ellen Andresen;Diego A. Zárate

Frequent Co-Authors

Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Julio Louzada
Julio Louzada Federal University of Lavras
Alejandro Estrada
Alejandro Estrada National Autonomous University of Mexico
Holger Heine
Holger Heine Hannover Medical School
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Robert M. Ewers
Robert M. Ewers Imperial College London
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Antonio González-Rodríguez
Antonio González-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Christoph Lange
Christoph Lange University of Lübeck
Edith B. Allen
Edith B. Allen University of California, Riverside

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