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77
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32984
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936
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349

Erle C. Ellis publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erle C. Ellis sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 163 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Erle C. Ellis D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erle C. Ellis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Erle C. Ellis is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their primary field of research is Environmental Science, with significant contributions in several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics covered by Ellis in their research include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Ellis's recent publications reflect a focus on human impacts on terrestrial nature and sustainability issues. Notable papers include:

  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Importance of Indigenous Peoples' lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat (2020, Conservation Letters)
  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include Kees Klein Goldewijk, Philip L. Gibbard, Matt Edgeworth, Andrew M. Bauer, and Mark Maslin.

Ellis has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Science
  • Earth s Future
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

  • Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

    Erle C Ellis;Navin Ramankutty

  • Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

    Erle C. Ellis;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Stefan Siebert;Deborah Lightman

  • A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

    Stephen T. Garnett;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Julia E. Fa;Julia E. Fa;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

  • Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

    Erle C. Ellis

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Used planet: a global history.

    Erle C. Ellis;Jed O. Kaplan;Dorian Q. Fuller;Steve Vavrus

  • Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

    Erle C. Ellis

  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

    Erle C. Ellis;Nicolas Gauthier;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

    Jed Oliver Kaplan;Kristen Krumhardt;Erle C. Ellis;William F. Ruddiman

  • High spatial resolution three-dimensional mapping of vegetation spectral dynamics using computer vision

    Jonathan P. Dandois;Erle C. Ellis

  • Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene

    Elena M. Bennett;Martin Solan;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Timon McPhearson

  • Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

    Peter H. Verburg;Neville Crossman;Erle C. Ellis;Andreas Heinimann

  • An ecomodernist manifesto

    J Asafu-Adjaye;L Blomquist;S Brand;BW Brook

  • Mapping where ecologists work: biases in the global distribution of terrestrial ecological observations

    Laura J Martin;Bernd Blossey;Erle Ellis

  • Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

    Richard J Hobbs;Eric Higgs;Carol M Hall;Peter Bridgewater

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Optimal Altitude, Overlap, and Weather Conditions for Computer Vision UAV Estimates of Forest Structure

    Jonathan P. Dandois;Marc Olano;Erle C. Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Anthony D. Barnosky
Anthony D. Barnosky University of California, Berkeley
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge

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