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Erle Ellis

Research Projects

	2009 - Ecosynth: An Inexpensive 3D Ecosystem Scanner A new user-deployed system for mapping and measuring vegetation biomass, carbon and potentially biodiversity across landsapes using regular digital cameras and computer vision software.
	2008 - A Global Assessment of Landscape Fragmentation A global sample of landscapes are being mapped from high resolution imagery to measure and model global relationships between human populations, land use and landscape structure.
	2007 - Anthropogenic Biomes (Anthromes) Anthropogenic biomes are being developed as a new framework for observing, modeling and understanding the terrestrial biosphere that integrates human and ecological systems. Project website...
	2000 - 2006 Long-Term Biogeochemical Changes in China's Anthropogenic Landscapes A study of the local, regional and global impacts of long-term changes in landscape structure and biogeochemistry in China's densely populated agricultural landscapes, based on intensive field research at five sites in China. Project website...
	2002 - 2003 Ecotope Mapping in Watershed 263 Ecotopes were mapped across Watershed 263 in urban Baltimore City, Maryland. Project website...
	2002 - 2003 Ecotope Mapping in the Cub Hill Tower Airshed Ecotopes were mapped across the footprint of the Cub Hill eddy covariance carbon flux tower in suburban Baltimore County, Maryland. Project website...
	1998 - 1999 UCSC CASFS Farm Landscape Project An early application of ecotope mapping across the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) farm. Project website...
	1993 - 1997 Nitrogen Cycling and Ecological Sustainability of Village Ecosystems in China An investigation of nitrogen cycling across an entire village in China under pre-industrial, nitrogen-limiting conditions relative to the nitrogen-saturated conditions of 1994 to assess the role of nitrogen cycling in sustainable agricultural management. Project website...