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44
Citations
17409
World Ranking
4943
National Ranking
1693

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Ellen I. Damschen is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as global and planetary change. Their research topics cover ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, botany, ecology, and taxonomy studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and land use and ecosystem services.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jonathan J. Henn, Laura M. Ladwig, Katherine T. Charton, Nick M. Haddad, and Lars A. Brudvig.

Damschen has published extensively in several journals, with repeated contributions to Plant Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Addressing the problem of scale that emerges with habitat fragmentation, 2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Plant age affects intraspecific variation in functional traits, 2021, Plant Ecology
  • Large ecosystem-scale effects of restoration fail to mitigate impacts of land-use legacies in longleaf pine savannas, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Long-term, large-scale experiment reveals the effects of seed limitation, climate, and anthropogenic disturbance on restoration of plant communities in a biodiversity hotspot, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Habitat fragmentation alters the distance of abiotic seed dispersal through edge effects and direction of dispersal, 2021, Ecology

In 2020, Ellen I. Damschen was recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

Best Publications

  • Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Jean Clobert;Kendi F. Davies

  • Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology.

    John J. Wiens;David D. Ackerly;Andrew P. Allen;Brian L. Anacker

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes.

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Douglas J. Levey;Nick M. Haddad;Sarah Sargent

  • Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity

    Robert J. Fletcher;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Cristina Banks-Leite;Jos Barlow

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Corridors increase plant species richness at large scales

    Ellen I. Damschen;Nick M. Haddad;John L. Orrock;Joshua J. Tewksbury

  • Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

    Lauren B. Buckley;T. Jonathan Davies;T. Jonathan Davies;David D. Ackerly;Nathan J. B. Kraft

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Experimental evidence does not support the Habitat Amount Hypothesis

    Nick M. Haddad;Andrew Gonzalez;Lars A. Brudvig;Melissa A. Burt

  • Landscape connectivity promotes plant biodiversity spillover into non-target habitats

    Lars A. Brudvig;Ellen I. Damschen;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Nick M. Haddad

  • Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

    Catherine M. Hulshof;Cyrille Violle;Marko J. Spasojevic;Brian McGill

  • The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes

    Ellen I. Damschen;Lars A. Brudvig;Nick M. Haddad;Douglas J. Levey

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Seed predation, not seed dispersal, explains the landscape‐level abundance of an early‐successional plant

    John L. Orrock;Douglas J. Levey;Brent J. Danielson;Ellen I. Damschen

  • How fragmentation and corridors affect wind dynamics and seed dispersal in open habitats

    Ellen I. Damschen;Dirk V. Baker;Gil Bohrer;Ran Nathan

  • Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment.

    Ellen I. Damschen;Lars A. Brudvig;Melissa A. Burt;Robert J. Fletcher

  • Potential Negative Ecological Effects of Corridors

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Ellen I. Damschen;Daniel M. Evans

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lars A. Brudvig
Lars A. Brudvig Michigan State University
Susan Harrison
Susan Harrison University of California, Davis
Nick M. Haddad
Nick M. Haddad Michigan State University
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Joshua J. Tewksbury
Joshua J. Tewksbury University of Colorado Boulder
Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
Brett A. Melbourne
Brett A. Melbourne University of Colorado Boulder
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology

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