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Stephen P. Ellner

Stephen P. Ellner

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
24423
World Ranking
600
National Ranking
210

Stephen P. Ellner publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 206 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Stephen P. Ellner 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 Stephen P. Ellner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Stephen P. Ellner is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics in Ellner's research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, and Risk Management.

Ellner has published extensively in various scientific venues. Some of the frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The American Naturalist, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology, and Ecology Letters.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ellner include:

  • Host-pathogen immune feedbacks can explain widely divergent outcomes from similar infections, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis: Comment, 2021, Ecology

Other papers connected to Ellner's research interests but with different first authors include:

  • A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology, 2021, Ecology
  • Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success, 2020, The American Naturalist
  • Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ellner collaborates frequently with a range of researchers. Some of the most frequent coauthors include Giles Hooker, Peter B. Adler, Robin E. Snyder, Wee Hao Ng, and Christopher R. Myers.

Best Publications

  • Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system

    Takehito Yoshida;Laura E. Jones;Stephen P. Ellner;Gregor F. Fussmann;Gregor F. Fussmann

  • Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time

    Nelson G. Hairston;Stephen P. Ellner;Monica A. Geber;Takehito Yoshida

  • Coexistence of plant species with similar niches

    A. Shmida;S. Ellner

  • SIZE-SPECIFIC SENSITIVITY: APPLYING A NEW STRUCTURED POPULATION MODEL

    Michael R. Easterling;Stephen P. Ellner;Philip M. Dixon

  • Chaos in Ecology: Is Mother Nature a Strange Attractor?*

    Alan Hastings;Carole L. Hom;Stephen Ellner;Peter Turchin

  • Cholera dynamics and El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

    Mercedes Pascual;Xavier Rodó;Stephen P. Ellner;Rita Colwell

  • Integral projection models for species with complex demography.

    Stephen P. Ellner;Mark Rees

  • Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community

    Elisa Benincà;Jef Huisman;Reinhard Heerkloss;Klaus D Jöhnk;Klaus D Jöhnk

  • Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System

    Gregor F. Fussmann;Stephen P. Ellner;Stephen P. Ellner;Kyle W. Shertzer;Nelson G. Hairston

  • WHY DO POPULATIONS CYCLE? A SYNTHESIS OF STATISTICAL AND MECHANISTIC MODELING APPROACHES

    Bruce E. Kendall;Cheryl J. Briggs;William W. Murdoch;Peter Turchin

  • ROLE OF OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS IN MAINTAINING GENETIC VARIATION IN A FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENT

    Stephen Ellner;Nelson G. Hairston

  • A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology.

    Andrew T. Tredennick;Giles Hooker;Stephen P. Ellner;Peter B. Adler

  • Coexistence of perennial plants: An embarrassment of niches

    Peter B. Adler;Stephen P. Ellner;Jonathan M. Levine

  • The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

    Drew Harvell;Richard Aronson;Nancy Baron;Joseph Connell

  • SCALING UP ANIMAL MOVEMENTS IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEHAVIOR

    Juan Manuel Morales;Stephen P. Ellner

  • Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics.

    Stephen P. Ellner;Monica A. Geber;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Stochastic matrix models for conservation and management: A comparative review of methods

    John Fieberg;Stephen P. Ellner

  • ESS germination strategies in randomly varying environments. I. Logistic-type models

    Stephen Ellner

  • Cryptic population dynamics: rapid evolution masks trophic interactions.

    Takehito Yoshida;Stephen P. Ellner;Laura E. Jones;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  • When is it meaningful to estimate an extinction probability

    John R Fieberg;Stephen P. Ellner

  • Reduction of adaptive genetic diversity radically alters eco-evolutionary community dynamics

    Lutz Becks;Stephen P. Ellner;Laura E. Jones;Nelson G. Hairston Jr.

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelson G. Hairston
Nelson G. Hairston Cornell University
Mark Rees
Mark Rees University of Sheffield
Giles Hooker
Giles Hooker University of Pennsylvania
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Douglas Nychka
Douglas Nychka Colorado School of Mines
John Guckenheimer
John Guckenheimer Cornell University
Bruce E. Kendall
Bruce E. Kendall University of California, Santa Barbara
Gregor F. Fussmann
Gregor F. Fussmann McGill University
Simon N. Wood
Simon N. Wood University of Edinburgh
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University

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