Publications
Books
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Anthropocene: A Very Short
Introduction
Oxford University Press: UK release March 2018,
US release May 2018
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Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Proceedings (peer reviewed)
Edgeworth, M., E.C. Ellis, P. Gibbard, C. Neal, and M. Ellis. 2019. The
chronostratigraphic method is unsuitable for determining the start of the
Anthropocene.
Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment (in press).
[download]
Tarolli, P., W. Cao, G. Sofia, D. Evans, and E.C. Ellis.
2019. From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for
anthropogenic geomorphology.
Progress in Physical
Geography: Earth and Environment 43:95-128. [download]
Campagnaro, T., T. Sitzia, P. Bridgewater, D. Evans, and E.C. Ellis.
2019. Half Earth or Whole Earth: What can Natura 2000 teach us?
BioScience 69(2):117-124. [download]
[podcast]
Meyfroidt, P., R. Roy Chowdhury, A. de Bremond, E.C. Ellis,
K.H. Erb, T. Filatova, R.D. Garrett, J.M. Grove, A. Heinimann, T. Kuemmerle,
C.A. Kull, E.F. Lambin, Y. Landon, Y. le Polain de Waroux, P. Messerli, D.
Müller, J.Ø. Nielsen, G.D. Peterson, V. Rodriguez García, M. Schlüter, B.L.
Turner, and P. H. Verburg. 2018. Middle-range theories of land system
change. Global
Environmental Change 53:52-67. [download]
Mehrabi, Z., E.C. Ellis, and N. Ramankutty. 2018. The
challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet.
Nature
Sustainability 1:409-412. [download]
[The
Conversation] [Comment
at Nature Sustainability]
Garnett, S.T., N.D. Burgess, J.E. Fa, Á. Fernández-Llamazares, Z. Molnár,
C.J. Robinson, J.E.M. Watson, K.K. Zander, B. Austin, E.S. Brondizio, N.F.
Collier, T. Duncan, E. Ellis, H. Geyle, M. V. Jackson, H.
Jonas, P. Malmer, B. McGowan, A. Sivongxay, and I. Leiper. 2018. A spatial
overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation.
Nature
Sustainability 1:369-374. [download]
[The
Conversation]
Estes, L., P.R. Elsen, T. Treuer, L. Ahmed, K. Caylor, J. Chang, J.J. Choi,
and E.C. Ellis. 2018. The spatial and temporal domains of
modern ecology.
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 819–826.
[download]
Bauer, A.M., and E.C. Ellis. 2018. The Anthropocene divide:
obscuring understanding of social-environmental change.
Current Anthropology 50(2):209-227. [download].
Magliocca, N.R., E.C. Ellis, G.R.H. Allington, A. de Bremond, J.
Dell’Angelo, O. Mertz, P. Messerli, P. Meyfroidt, R. Seppelt, and P.H.
Verburg. 2018. Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized
knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems.
Global
Environmental Change 50:1-14. [download]
Prosser, D.J., C. Ding, R.M. Erwin, T. Mundkur, J.D. Sullivan, and E.C.
Ellis. 2018. Species distribution modeling in regions of high need and
limited data: waterfowl of China.
Avian Research
9:7. [download]
Ellis, E.C., N.R. Magliocca, C.J. Stevens, and D.Q. Fuller.
2018. Evolving the Anthropocene: Linking multi-level selection with
long-term social-ecological change.
Sustainability Science
13(1):119–128. [download]
Brook, B.W., E.C. Ellis, and J. Buettel. 2018. What is the
evidence for planetary tipping points? Pages 51-57 in P. Kareiva, M.
Marvier, and B. Silliman, editors. Effective Conservation Science: Data
Not Dogma. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [online]
[download]
Fox, T., M. Pope, and E.C. Ellis. 2017. Engineering the Anthropocene:
Scalable Social Networks and Resilience Building in Human Evolutionary
Timescales. The Anthropocene Review
4(3):199 - 215. [download]
Zalasiewicz, J., C.N. Waters, C.P. Summerhayes, A.P. Wolfe, A.D. Barnosky,
A. Cearreta, P. Crutzen, E. Ellis, I.J. Fairchild, A.
Gałuszka, P. Haff, I. Hajdas, M.J. Head, J.A. Assunção Ivar do Sul, C.
Jeandel, R. Leinfelder, J.R. McNeill, C. Neal, E. Odada, N. Oreskes, W.
Steffen, J. Syvitski, D. Vidas, M. Wagreich, and M. Williams. 2017. The
Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim
recommendations.
Anthropocene 19:55-60. [download]
Bohle, M., and E.C. Ellis. 2017. Furthering Ethical
Requirements for Applied Earth Science.
Annals of Geophysics 60 (Fast Track 7): doi: 10.4401/ag-7401. [download]
Dinerstein, E., D. Olson, A. Joshi, C. Vynne, N.D. Burgess, E.
Wikramanayake, N. Hahn, S. Palminteri, P. Hedao, R. Noss, M. Hansen, H.
Locke, E.C. Ellis, B. Jones, C.V. Barber, R. Hayes, C.
Kormos, V. Martin, E. Crist, W. Sechrest, L. Price, J.E.M. Baillie, D.
Weeden, K. Suckling, C. Davis, N. Sizer, R. Moore, D. Thau, T. Birch, P.
Potapov, S. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, N. de Souza, L. Pintea, J.C. Brito,
O.A. Llewellyn, A.G. Miller, A. Patzelt, S.A. Ghazanfar, J. Timberlake, H.
Klöser, Y. Shennan-Farpon, R. Kindt, J.-P. Barnekow Lillesø, P. van Breugel,
L. Graudal, M. Voge, K.F. Al-Shammari, and M. Saleem. 2017. An
Ecoregion-based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm.
BioScience 67(6):534-545. [download]
Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, C.N. Waters, A.D. Barnosky, J. Palmesino,
A.-S. Rönnskog, M. Edgeworth, C. Neal, A. Cearreta, E.C. Ellis, J.
Grinevald, P. Haff, J.A. Ivar do Sul, C. Jeandel, R. Leinfelder, J.R.
McNeill, E. Odada, N. Oreskes, S. J. Price, A. Revkin, W. Steffen, C.
Summerhayes, D. Vidas, S. Wing, and A.P. Wolfe. 2016. Scale and diversity of
the physical technosphere: A geological perspective.
The Anthropocene Review
4(1):9-22. [download]
Dandois, J.P., M. Baker, M. Olano, G.G. Parker, and E.C. Ellis.
2017. What is the point? Evaluating the structure, color, and semantic
traits of computer vision point clouds of vegetation.
Remote Sensing 9:355. [download]
Zalasiewicz, J., C.N. Waters, A.P. Wolfe, A.D. Barnosky, A. Cearreta, M.
Edgeworth, E.C. Ellis, I.J. Fairchild, F.M. Gradstein, J.
Grinevald, P. Haff, M.J. Head, J. Ivar do Sul, C. Jeandel, R. Leinfelder,
J.R. McNeill, N. Oreskes, C. Poirier, A. Revkin, D. d. Richter, W. Steffen,
C. Summerhayes, J.P.M. Syvitski, D. Vidas, M. Wagreich, S. Wing, and M.
Williams. 2017. Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis
of ongoing critiques.
Newsletters on Stratigraphy 50(2):205-26. [download]
Cantrell, B., L.J. Martin, and E.C. Ellis. 2017. Designing
Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene.
Trends in Ecology
& Evolution 32(3):156-166. [download]
Ellis, E.C. 2016. Why Is Human Niche Construction
Transforming Planet Earth? Pages 63-70 in M. W. Ertsen, C. Mauch, and E.
Russell, editors.
Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work. RCC
Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2016, no. 5, Rachel
Carson Center, Munich. [online]
[download]
Magliocca, N.R., and E.C. Ellis. 2016. Evolving human
landscapes: a virtual laboratory approach.
Journal of
Land Use Science 11:642-671. [download].
Bennett, E.M., M. Solan, R. Biggs, T. McPhearson, A.V. Norstrom, P.
Olsson, L. Pereira, G.D. Peterson, C. Raudsepp-Hearne, F. Biermann, S.R.
Carpenter, E.C. Ellis, T. Hichert, V. Galaz, M. Lahsen, M.
Milkoreit, B. Martin-López, K.A. Nicholas, R. Preiser, G. Vince, J.M.
Vervoort, and J. Xu. 2016. Bright spots: Seeds of a good Anthropocene.
Frontiers in Ecology and
the Environment 14(8):441–448. [download].
[DotEarth
Blog]
Steffen, W., R. Leinfelder, J. Zalasiewicz, C. N. Waters, M. Williams, C.
Summerhayes, A. D. Barnosky, A. Cearreta, P. Crutzen, M. Edgeworth,
E.C. Ellis, I. J. Fairchild, A. Gałuszka, J. Grinevald, A. Haywood,
J. I. d. Sul, C. Jeandel, J. R. McNeill, E. Odada, N. Oreskes, A. Revkin, D.
d. B. Richter, J. Syvitski, D. Vidas, M. Wagreich, S. L. Wing, A. P. Wolfe,
and H. J. Schellnhuber. 2016. Stratigraphic and Earth System Approaches to
Defining the Anthropocene. Earth's Future 4: doi:10.1002/2016EF000379. [download].
Prosser, D.J., L.L. Hungerford, R.M. Erwin, M.A. Ottinger, J.Y. Takekawa,
S.H. Newman, X. Xiao, and E.C. Ellis. 2016. Spatial Modeling of Wild Bird
Risk Factors for Highly Pathogenic A(H5N1) Avian Influenza Virus
Transmission. Avian Diseases 60:329-336. [download].
Margulies, J.D., Magliocca, N.R., Schmill, M.D., Ellis, E.C. 2016 Ambiguous
Geographies: Connecting Case Study Knowledge with Global Change Science.
Annals of the
American Association of Geographers 106(3):572-596. [download].
Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C.N., Edgeworth, M., Bennett, C.,
Barnosky, A.D., Ellis, E.C., Ellis, M.A., Cearreta, A.,
Haff, P.K., Ivar do Sul, J.A., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J.R., Odada, E.,
Oreskes, N., Revkin, A., deB Richter, D., Steffen, W., Summerhayes, C.,
Syvitski, J.P., Vidas, D., Wagreich, M., Wing, S.L., Wolfe, A.P., Zhisheng,
A. 2016. The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of
anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere.
Earth's Future
4(3):34–53. [download]
Waters, C.N., J. Zalasiewicz, C. Summerhayes, A.D. Barnosky, C. Poirier, A.
Galuszka, A. Cearreta, M. Edgeworth, E.C. Ellis, M. Ellis,
C. Jeandel, R. Leinfelder, J. R. McNeill, D. d. Richter, W. Steffen, J.
Syvitski, D. Vidas, M. Wagreich, M. Williams, A. Zhisheng, J. Grinevald, E.
Odada, N. Oreskes, and A.P. Wolfe. 2016. The Anthropocene is functionally
and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene.
Science
351:aad2622. [download]
Ruddiman, W.F., D.Q. Fuller, J.E. Kutzbach, P.C. Tzedakis, J.O. Kaplan,
E.C.
Ellis, S.J. Vavrus, C.N. Roberts, R. Fyfe, F. He, C. Lemmen, and J.
Woodbridge. 2016. Late Holocene Climate: Natural or Anthropogenic?
Reviews of Geophysics
54(1):93–118 [download].
van Vliet, J., N.R. Magliocca, B. Büchner, E. Cook, J.M. Rey Benayas,
E.C.
Ellis, A. Heinimann, E. Keys, T. Lee, J. Liu, O. Mertz, P. Meyfroidt, M.
Moritz, C. Poeplau, B.E. Robinson, R. Seppelt, K.C. Seto, and P. Verburg.
2016. Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects.
AMBIO
45(1):15-28. [download]
Verburg, P.H., N. Crossman, E.C. Ellis, A. Heinimann, P. Hostert, O.
Mertz, H. Nagendra, T. Sikor, K.-H. Erb, N. Golubiewski, R. Grau, M. Grove,
S. Konaté, P. Meyfroidt, D.C. Parker, R.R. Chowdhury, H. Shibata, A.
Thomson, and L. Zhen. 2015. Land system science and sustainable development
of the earth system: A global land project perspective.
Anthropocene
12:29–41. [download]
Williams, M., J. Zalasiewicz, P.K. Haff, C. Schwägerl, A.D. Barnosky and
E.C. Ellis. 2015.
The Anthropocene biosphere.
The
Anthropocene Review 2(3):196-219. [download]
Dandois, J.,M. Olano, and E.C. Ellis. 2015. Optimal Altitude,
Overlap, and Weather Conditions for Computer Vision UAV Estimates of Forest
Structure. Remote Sensing 7(10): 13895-13920. [download]
Ellis, E.C. 2015. Too big for nature. Pages 24-31 in B. A.
Minteer and S. J. Pyne, editors.
After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago. [download]
Pirokka, M., E.C. Ellis, and P.D. Tredici. 2015. Personal
Remote Sensing: Computer Vision Landscapes. Pages 178-187 in A. Fard and T.
Meshkani, editors.
New
Geographies #7: Geographies of Information. Harvard Graduate School
of Design, Cambridge, MA. [download]
[RG doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3523.1445]
Ellis, E.C. 2015. Ecology in an Anthropogenic Biosphere.
Ecological Monographs
85(3)287–331. [download]
[Anthroecology Project]
Dandois, J.P., D. Nadwodny, E. Anderson, A. Bofto, M. Baker, and E.C. Ellis.
2015. Forest census and map data for two temperate deciduous forest edge
woodlot patches in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Ecology 96:1734-1734.
[download pdf] [download
dataset]
Zahawi, R., J.P. Dandois, K.D. Holl, D. Nadwodny, L.J. Reid, and E.C.
Ellis. 2015. Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical
forest recovery.
Biological Conservation 186:287–295. [download]
Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C.N., Williams, M., Barnosky, A.D., Cearreta, A.,
Crutzen, P., Ellis, E., Ellis, M.A., Fairchild, I.J.,
Grinevald, J., Haff, P.K., Hajdas, I., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J., Odada,
E.O., Poirier, C., Richter, D., Steffen, W., Summerhayes, C., Syvitski,
J.P.M., Vidas, D., Wagreich, M., Wing, S.L., Wolfe, A.P., An, Z., Oreskes,
N. 2015 When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary
level is stratigraphically optimal.
Quaternary
International 383:196-203. [download]
Hobbs, R.J., E.S. Higgs, C. Hall, P. Bridgewater, F.S. Chapin III,
E.C.
Ellis, J.J. Ewel, L.M. Hallett, J.A. Harris, K.B. Hulvey, S.T. Jackson,
P.L. Kennedy, C. Kueffer, L. Lach, T.C. Lantz, A.E. Lugo, J. Mascaro, S.D. Murphy, C.R. Nelson, M.P. Perring, D.M. Richardson, T.R. Seastadt, R.J. Standish, B.M. Starzomski, K.N. Suding, P.M. Tognetti, L. Yakob, and
L. Yung. 2014. Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid and novel
ecosystems. Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment 12:557–564. [download]
Schmill, M.D., L.M. Gordon, N.R. Magliocca, E.C. Ellis, and T. Oates.
2014. GLOBE: Analytics for Assessing Global Representativeness. Pages 25-32
in Computing for
Geospatial Research and Application (COM.Geo), 2014 Fifth International
Conference on. [download]
Ellis, E.C. 2014. Ecologies of the Anthropocene: Global upscaling of
social-ecological infrastructures. Pages 20-27 in D. Ibanez and N. Katsikis,
editors.
New
Geographies #6: Grounding Metabolism. Harvard Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge, MA. [download]
Magliocca, N., T. Rudel, P. Verburg, W. McConnell, O. Mertz, K. Gerstner, A.
Heinimann, and E. Ellis. 2014. Synthesis in land change science:
methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines.
Regional
Environmental Change 15(2):211-226. [download]
Ellis, E.C. 2014. (Anthropogenic Taxonomies) A Taxonomy of the Human
Biosphere. Pages 168-182 in C. Reed and N.-M. Lister, editors.
Projective
Ecologies. Actar. [download]
Martin, L.J., J.E. Quinn, E.C. Ellis, M.R. Shaw, M.A. Dorning, L.M.
Hallett, N.E. Heller, R.J. Hobbs, C.E. Kraft, E. Law, N.L. Michel, M.P.
Perring, P.D. Shirey, and R. Wiederholt. 2014. Biodiversity conservation
opportunities across the world’s anthromes.
Diversity and
Distributions 20(7):745–755. [download]
Magliocca, N.R., D.G. Brown, and E.C. Ellis. 2014.
Cross-Site Comparison of Land-Use Decision-Making and Its Consequences
across Land Systems with a Generalized Agent-Based Model.
PLoS ONE
9:e86179. [download]
[blog
post]
Seddon, A.W.R., A.W. Mackay, A.G. Baker, H.J.B. Birks, E. Breman, C.E. Buck,
E.C. Ellis, + 64 more authors (!). 2014. Looking
forward through the past: Identification of fifty priority research
questions in palaeoecology. Journal of Ecology
102(1):256–267.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12195 [download]
Ellis, E. C., D.Q. Fuller, J.O. Kaplan, and W.G.
Lutters. 2013. Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history
of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere.
Elementa:
Science of the Anthropocene 1(1):000018. [download]
Blomqvist, L., B. W. Brook, E. C. Ellis, P. M. Kareiva, T.
Nordhaus, and M. Shellenberger. 2013. Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus
Imagined Ecological Footprints.
PLoS Biology
11:e1001700. [download] [blog
post]
Ellis, E. C. 2013. Sustaining biodiversity and people in
the world's anthropogenic biomes.
Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability 5:368–372. [download]
Magliocca, N. R., D. G. Brown, and E. C. Ellis. 2013.
Exploring Agricultural Livelihood Transitions with an Agent-Based Virtual
Laboratory: Global Forces to Local Decision-Making.
PLoS ONE
8:e73241. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073241. [download]
[blog post:
Exploring Land-Livelihood Transitions]
Young, A.L., W.G. Lutters, N.R. Magliocca, and E.C. Ellis.
2013. Designing a system for land change science meta-study.
Pages 1473-1478 in CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in
Computing Systems. ACM, Paris, France.
[pdf]
Rounsevell, M. D. A., A. Arneth, P. Alexander, D. G. Brown, N. de
Noblet-Ducoudré, E. Ellis, J. Finnigan, K. Galvin, N. Grigg, I. Harman, J.
Lennox, N. Magliocca, D. Parker, B. C. O'Neill, P. H. Verburg, and O. Young.
2013. Towards decision-based global land use models for improved
understanding of the Earth system.
Earth System
Dynamics Discussion 4:875-925.
Prosser, D., L. Hungerford, R. M. Erwin, M. A. Ottinger, J. Y. Takekawa, and
E. Ellis. 2013. Mapping avian influenza transmission risk
at the interface of domestic poultry and wild birds.
Frontiers in Public
Health 1:28 [download]
Karl, J. W., J. E. Herrick, R. S. Unnasch, J. K. Gillan, E. C. Ellis,
W. G. Lutters, and L. J. Martin. 2013. Discovering ecologically-relevant
knowledge from published studies through geo-semantic searching.
BioScience 63:674-682. [download]
Dandois, J. P. and E. C. Ellis. 2013. High spatial
resolution three-dimensional mapping of vegetation spectral dynamics using
computer vision. Remote Sensing of Environment 136:259-276. [download]
[blog
post]
Ellis, E. C., J. O. Kaplan, D. Q. Fuller, S. Vavrus, K.
Klein Goldewijk, and P. H. Verburg. 2013. Used Planet: A Global History.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(20):7978-7985.
[download]
[blog
post]
Mascaro, J., J. A. Harris, L. Lach, A. Thompson, M. P. Perring, D. M.
Richardson, and E. C. Ellis. 2013.
Origins of the Novel Ecosystems Concept. Pages 45-57 in R. J. Hobbs, E.
S. Higgs, C. M. Hall, editors.
Novel Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons. [download]
Perring, M. P. and E. C. Ellis. 2013.
The Extent of Novel Ecosystems: Long in Time and Broad in Space. Pages
66-80 in R. J. Hobbs, E. S. Higgs, C. M. Hall, editors.
Novel Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons. [download]
Marris, E., J. Mascaro, and E. C. Ellis. 2013.
Perspective: Is Everything a Novel Ecosystem? If so, do we need the Concept?
Pages 345-349 in R. J. Hobbs, E. S. Higgs, C. M. Hall, editors.
Novel Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons. [download]
Brook, B. W., E. C. Ellis, M. P. Perring, A. W. Mackay, and
L. Blomqvist. 2013. Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping
points? Trends in
Ecology & Evolution 28(7): 396-401. [download]
[blog
post]
Magliocca, N. R. and E. C. Ellis. 2013. Using
Pattern-oriented Modeling (POM) to Cope with Uncertainty in Multi-scale
Agent-based Models of Land Change.
Transactions in GIS
17(1): 883-900. [download]
DeFries, R., E. Ellis, F. S. Chapin III, P. Matson, B. L. Turner II, Arun
Agrawal, P. Crutzen, C. Field, P. Gleick, P. Kareiva, E. Lambin, E. Ostrom,
P. Sanchez, J. Syvitski, and D. Liverman. 2012.
Planetary
Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to
a Sustainable Future. BioScience 62(6):603-606. [download]
Martin, L. J., B. Blossey, and E. Ellis. 2012. Mapping where
ecologists work: Biases in the global distribution of terrestrial ecological
observations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
10(4):195-201. [download]
Ellis, E. C., E. C. Antill, and H. Kreft. 2012. All is not
loss: plant biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
PLoS ONE
7:e30535.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030535. [download]
[maps & data]
[blog post:
All is not loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene]
Verburg, Peter H., Erle C. Ellis and Aurelien Letourneau. 2011. A global assessment of market accessibility and market influence for global environmental change studies.
Environmental Research Letters 6:034019. [download]
Prosser, D. J., J. Wu, E. C. Ellis, F. Gale, T. P. Van
Boeckel, W. Wint, T. Robinson, X. Xiao, and M. Gilbert. 2011. Modelling the
distribution of chickens, ducks, and geese in China.
Agriculture,
Ecosystems & Environment 141:381-389. [download]
Ellis, E. C. 2011 Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere.
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science
369(1938):1010-1035. [download].
Kaplan, J. O., Krumhardt, K. M., Ellis, E. C., Ruddiman, W. F., Lemmen, C.
& Klein Goldewijk, K. 2011. Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change.
The Holocene
21(5):775-791. [download]
Ellis, E. C., K. Klein Goldewijk, S.
Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty. 2010. Anthropogenic
transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000.
Global Ecology and
Biogeography 19(5):589-606. [download]
[Online
Appendices] [blog post:
The Biosphere we created: 1700 to 2000]
Jiao, J., E. C. Ellis, I. Yesilonis, J. Wu,
H. Wang, H. Li, and L. Yang. 2010. Distributions of soil phosphorus in
China's densely populated village landscapes.
Journal of Soils and
Sediments 10(3):461-472. [download]
Dandois, J. P. and E. C. Ellis. 2010. Remote
sensing of vegetation structure using computer vision.
Remote Sensing
2(4):1157-1176. [download]
Jiao, J.G., Yang, L.Z., Wu, J.X., Wang, H., and E. C.
Ellis, 2010. Land use and soil organic carbon in China's
agricultural village landscapes. Pedosphere 20(1):1-14.
[download]
Ruddiman, W. F. and E. C. Ellis. 2009.
Effect of per-capita land use changes on Holocene forest clearance and CO2
emissions. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(27-28):3011-3015.
[download] [blog
post:
Burning the biosphere before you were born]
Ellis, E. C. and P. K. Haff. 2009. Earth
Science in the Anthropocene: New Epoch, New Paradigm, New Responsibilities.
EOS Transactions 90(49):473. [download] [blog post:
On
Doctoring the Planet]
Ellis, E.C., N. Neerchal, K. Peng, H. S. Xiao, H.
Wang, Z. Yan, S. C. Li, J. X. Wu, J. G. Jiao, H. Ouyang, X. Cheng, and L. Z.
Yang. 2009. Estimating long-term changes in China's village landscapes.
Ecosystems 12 (2):279-297. [download]
[blog post:
China’s villages are changing the world]
Wu, J.-X., X. Cheng, H.-S. Xiao, H. Wang, L.-Z. Yang, and
E. C. Ellis. 2009. Agricultural Landscape Change in
China's Yangtze Delta, 1942 to 2002: A Case Study. Agriculture,
Ecosystems & Environment 129:523-533. [download]
[blog post:
Dynamics of village change in China's Yangtze Delta]
Ellis, E.C. and N. Ramankutty. 2008. Putting people
in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world.
Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment 6(8):439-447. [download]
[blog post:
Anthromes on the cover of Frontiers in Ecology]
Ellis, E.C., and Wang,
H. 2006. Estimating area errors for fine-scale feature-based ecological
mapping.
International Journal of Remote Sensing 27(21):4731-4749.
[download]
Ellis E.C., H. Wang, H.
Xiao, K. Peng, X. P. Liu, S. C. Li, H. Ouyang, X. Cheng, and L. Z. Yang.
2006. Measuring long-term ecological changes in densely populated
landscapes using current and historical high resolution imagery.
Remote Sensing of
Environment 100(4):457-473. [download]
Wang, H., and
E.C. Ellis. 2005.
The effect of image misregistration on feature-based change
measurements.
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 71(9):1037-1044.
[download]
Wang, H., and
E. C. Ellis. 2005. Spatial accuracy of
orthorectified IKONOS imagery and historical aerial photographs across five
sites in China.
International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(9):1893-1911. [download]
Ellis, E. C.
2004. Long-term ecological
changes in the densely populated rural landscapes of China. Pages 303-320 in
R. S. DeFries, G. P. Asner, and R. A. Houghton, editors.
Ecosystems and Land Use Change. Geophysical Monograph Series Vol.
153. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. [download]
Mosier, A. R., M. A. Bleken, P. Chaiwanakupt, E. C. Ellis,
J. R. Freney, R. B. Howarth, P. A. Matson, K. Minami, R. Naylor, K. N.
Weeks, and Z. Zhao-liang. 2001. Policy implications of human accelerated
nitrogen cycling. Biogeochemistry 52:281-320
[download]
Ellis, E. C., R. G. Li, L. Z. Yang,
and X. Cheng. 2000. Nitrogen and the sustainable
village. Pages 95-104 in S. R. Gliessman, editor.
Agroecosystem Sustainability: Developing Practical
Strategies. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. [download]
Muramoto, J., E. C. Ellis, Z. Li, R. M. Machado, and
S. R. Gliessman. 2000. Field-scale nutrient cycling and
sustainability: comparing natural and agricultural ecosystems. Pages 121-134
in S. R. Gliessman, Editor.
Agroecosystem Sustainability: Developing Practical
Strategies. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. [download]
Ellis, E.C., R.G. Li, L.Z. Yang,
and X. Cheng. 2000b. Changes in village-scale
nitrogen storage in China's Tai Lake Region. Ecological Applications
10(4):1074-1089. [download]
Ellis, E.C., R.G. Li, L.Z. Yang,
and X. Cheng. 2000a. Long-term change in
village-scale ecosystems in China using landscape and statistical methods.
Ecological Applications 10(4):1057-1073. [download]
Ellis, E.C., R.G. Li, L.Z. Yang,
and X. Cheng. 2000: Supplement 1. Long-term change in
village-scale ecosystems in China using landscape and statistical methods.
Ecological Applications 10(4):1057-1073; Supplement 1: Data Quality Pedigree Calculator.
Ecological Archives
A010-006-S1. [link]
Ellis, E.C.
and Wang, S.M., 1997. Sustainable
traditional agriculture in the Tai Lake Region of China.
Agriculture,
Ecosystems, and Environment 61:177-193. [download]
Ellis, E.C., Turgeon, R., and Spanswick, R.M., 1992.
Quantitative analysis of photosynthate unloading in developing seeds of
Phaseolus vulgaris L. I. The use of steady state labeling. Plant
Physiology 99:635 642. [download]
Ellis, E.C., Turgeon, R., and
Spanswick, R.M., 1992. Quantitative analysis of photosynthate unloading in
developing seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris L. II. Pathway and turgor-sensitivity.
Plant Physiology 99:643 651. [download]
Ellis, E.C., Turgeon, R., and
Spanswick, R.M., 1992. Changes in photosynthate unloading from perfused
seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris L. induced by osmoticum and
Ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). Journal of Experimental Botany
43:1235 1241.[download]
Dissertation:
Ellis, E.C. 1990. Quantitative analysis of
photosynthate unloading in developing seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris
L. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. [download]
Ellis, E.C., and Spanswick,
R.M., 1987. Sugar efflux from attached seed coats of Glycine
max (L.) Merr.. Journal of Experimental Botany 38:1470 1483.[download]
Editorials, Essays, Letters,
Opinions, Magazine Articles & Blogs
Ellis, E. 2018. Time in Our Hands: Co-Designing a Better
Anthropocene. LA+
Issue 08 TIME:106-109. [online]
[pdf]
Ellis, E.C. 2018. Science Alone Won’t Save the Earth.
People Have to Do That. Sunday Review.
The New York Times. August 12, 2018. New York. [pdf]
Ellis, E.C. 2018. Ascending the Anthropocene: Mountain
Futures on an Increasingly Human Planet. Pages 9-14 in J. Xu, A. Stevenson,
and S. Yufang, editors. Mountain Futures: Inspiration and Innovation
from the World's Highlands. World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.
[download]
Ellis, E.C. 2018. Learning to live in the age of humans.
OUPblog. Oxford University Press. April 20, 2018.
https://blog.oup.com/2018/04/anthropocene-human-age-earth/
Ellis, E.C. 2018. Distanced Authorship in the Anthropocene.
Harvard Design Magazine #45:207
[download].
Ellis, E.C. 2017. Physical Geography in the Anthropocene.
Progress
in Physical Geography 41(5):525-532. [download]
Ellis, E.C., B. Cantrell, and L.J. Martin. 2017. Transparency and Control
of Autonomous Wildness: A Reply to Galaz and Mouazenc.
Trends in Ecology
& Evolution 32(9):630. [download]
Ellis, E.C. 2017. Nature for the People: Toward A Democratic Vision for the
Biosphere.
Breakthrough Journal Issue 7:15-25. [download]
Tarolli, P., G. Sofia, and E. Ellis. 2017. Mapping the
topographic fingerprints of humanity across Earth.
EOS Transactions 98
doi:10.1029/2017EO069637. [download]
Ellis, E., M. Maslin, N. Boivin, and A. Bauer. 2016.
Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene.
Nature 540:192–193.
[download].
Ellis, E.C., P.J. Richerson, A. Mesoudi, J.-C. Svenning, J. Odling-Smee, and
W.R. Burnside. 2016. Evolving the human niche.
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 113(31):E4436. [download].
Ellis, Erle 2016. Evolving toward a better Anthropocene.
Future Earth Blog. March 29, 2016. [download]
Ellis, Erle C. 2016. Humans: The species that changed
Earth.
Social Evolution Forum. Evolution Institute. February 22, 2016.
[download]
Ellis, Erle. 2015. Natives on the move: embracing change and evolution in
biodiversity melting pots.
Global Roundtable, The Nature of Cities [blog]. November 5, 2015.
[online]
Ruddiman, W.F., E.C. Ellis, J.O. Kaplan, and D.Q.
Fuller. 2015. Defining the epoch we live in: Is a formally designated
“Anthropocene” a good idea?
Science 348:38-39. [download]
Asafu-Adjaye, J., L. Blomqvist, S. Brand, B. Brook, R. DeFries, E.
Ellis, C. Foreman, D. Keith, M. Lewis, M. Lynas, T. Nordhaus, J.
Roger Pielke, R. Pritzker, J. Roy, M. Sagoff, M. Shellenberger, R. Stone,
and P. Teague. 2015. An Ecomodernist Manifesto.
http://www.ecomodernism.org/manifesto. [download]
Ellis, Erle C. 2013. Using the Planet.
Global Change 81:32-35. [download]
Ellis, Erle. 2013. Conserving a Used Planet: Embracing Our
History as Transformers of Earth.
SNAP Magazine (Science for Nature and People; no longer
publishing magazine). September 24, 2013. [download]
Erle C. Ellis. 2013. An Ecologist Explains His Contested View
of Planetary Limits. Edited by Andrew C. Revkin, Dot Earth Blog. New
York Times [Published September 16, 2013]
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/an-ecologist-explains-contested-view-of-planetary-limits/
Ellis, E. C. 2013. Op-Ed: Overpopulation Is
Not the Problem. The New York Times. New York edition ed. September
14, 2013. p. A19. [online].
Ellis, E. C. 2013. Back from the Brink.
NewScientist. March 9, 2013, (2907):30-31. [online] [pdf]
[blog
post]
Zalasiewicz, J., A. Cearreta, P. Crutzen, E. Ellis,
M. Ellis, J. Grinevald, J. McNeill, C. Poirier, S. Price, D. Richter, M.
Scholes, W. Steffen, D. Vidas, C. Waters, M. Williams, and A. P. Wolfe.
2012. Response to Autin and Holbrook on “Is the Anthropocene an issue of
stratigraphy or pop culture?”.
GSA Today 22:e21. [download]
Erb, K.-H., H. Haberl, R. DeFries, E.C. Ellis, F.
Krausmann, and P. H. Verburg. 2012. Pushing the Planetary Boundaries.
Science 338:1419-1420.
[download]
Ellis, E. 2012. Environments are not
constraints. This is Africa Online (Financial Times) June
20, 2012.
http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Analysis/Environments-are-not-constraints
[pdf] [reposted
by the Breakthrough Institute]
Marris E, Kareiva P, Mascaro J, Ellis E. C.
2011. Op-Ed: Hope in the Age of Man. The New York Times. New York
edition ed. December 8, 2011. p. A39. [online]
Ellis, E. 2011. The Planet of No Return:
Human Resilience on an Artificial Earth. The Breakthrough Journal.
Fall 2011 (Issue 2). [summary] [online]
[pdf] [commentary/criticism
online]
Ellis E. C. 2011. Forget Mother Nature: This is a World
of our Making. NewScientist, June 14, 2011, (2816):26-27. [online]
[pdf]
Ellis, Erle C. 2011. Neither Good Nor Bad: The Age of Anthropocene: Should
We Worry? Edited by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times: Room for Debate
[Published May 23, 2011] [web
link]
Ellis, Erle. 2009. "Op-Ed: Stop Trying to Save the Planet" In
Wired Science. [Published May 6, 2009]. <http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ftf-ellis-1/>
Ellis, E. C. 2008. Environmental revolution starts at
home. Science 320(5883; June 20):1587.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5883/1587a (text
of letter).
Ellis, E.C., 2008. Measuring change. Frontiers in
Ecology and Environment. 6(2): 66-67. [pdf]
[doi
link]
Ellis, E.C. 2006. Ecological revitalization of Chinese villages.
Science 312(5778; June 2):1310.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5778/1310a (text
of letter).
Ellis, E. C. 2005. Letter in response to Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The
Climate of Man” series, The New Yorker, June 13 & 20, 81(17):20.
[pdf]
Newsletters,
Reports & Other
Ellis, E.C. 2018. Ecosystems. Pages 33-38 in N. Castree, M. Hulme, and
J. D. Proctor, editors.
Companion to Environmental Studies. Routledge. [online]
[pdf]
Rounsevell, M.D.A., A. Arneth, D.G. Brown, N. de Noblet-Ducoudré,
E. Ellis, J. Finnigan, K. Galvin, N. Grigg, I. Harman,
J. Lennox, N. Magliocca, D. Parker, B. O’Neil, P.H. Verburg, and O.
Young. 2013.
Incorporating Human Behaviour and Decision Making Processes in Land Use
and Climate System Models. GLP Report No. 7, GLP-IPO, São
José dos Campos, Brazil.
E. Ellis. 2012. The GLOBE Project: accelerating
global synthesis of local studies in land change science.
Newsletter of the Global Land Project, March 2012, No. 8:5-6. [download]
Book Reviews
Ellis, E. C. 2018. Book Review: Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical
Guide to Concepts and Techniques edited by Sarah E. Gergel and Monica G.
Turner.
The Quarterly Review of Biology 93:142. [pdf]
Ellis, E. C. 2015. Book Review: Vital Signs, Volume 20 by Michael Renner.
The Quarterly Review of Biology 90:86.
[pdf]
Ellis, E. C. 2014. Betting the Planet: Review of "The Bet: Paul Ehrlich,
Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future".
The
Chronicle Review.
January 24, 2014 Page B16 [download]
Ellis, E. C. 2013. Book Review: Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the
Crisis We Face by Peter F. Sale.
The Quarterly Review of Biology 88:34.
[pdf]
Ellis, E.C., 2008. Book Review: Key Topics in Landscape Ecology.
Quarterly
Review of Biology 83(1): 135. [pdf]
Lindert, P. H. 1998. Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of
China and Indonesia. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Publications in Chinese
Wu, J., Cheng, X., Jiao, J., Xiao, H., Yang, L., Wang, H.,
Zhang, F. & Ellis, E. C. (2010) Long-term changes in area and soil total
nitrogen and total phosphorus storage in croplands of the densely populated
village landscapes of China's Yangtze Plain. Acta Ecologica Sinica
30(23):6309-6322. [in Chinese:
武俊喜,程序,焦加国,肖红生,杨林章,王洪庆,张福锁,Ellis, Erle C. 2010. 中耕地类型及其土壤氮磷储量的变化. 生态学报
30(23):6309-6322] [download]
Wu, J.-X., X. Cheng, J. G. Jiao, H.-S. Xiao, L.-Z. Yang, H.
Wang, F. Zhang, and E. C. Ellis. 2010. Changes in land use
and land cover and soil organic carbon storage in the densely populated
village landscapes of China’s Yangtze Plain from 1940s to 2002 (in Chinese). Acta
Ecologica Sinica 30(6):1397-1411. [in Chinese:
武俊喜,程序,焦加国,肖红生,杨林章,王洪庆,张福锁,Ellis Erle C..2010. 1940—2002
年长江中下游平原乡村景观区域中土地利用覆被及其土壤有机碳储量变化.生态学报 30(6):1397-1411] [download]
Wu, J. X., J. G. Jiao, H. S. Xiao, H. Q. Wang, L. Z. Yang, X.
Cheng, and Ellis, E.C.. 2008. Landscape structure,
management and soil total nitrogen, total phosphorus in the densely
populated rural landscapes of China's Yangtze Plain (in Chinese).
Acta
Ecologica Sinica 28(8):3606-3617. [in Chinese:
武俊喜, 焦加国, 肖红生, 王洪庆, 杨林章, 程序, Ellis Erle C. 2006. 长江平原区乡村景观的结构、管理及其对土壤氮磷的影响. 生态学报 28(8):3606-3617]. [download]
Jiao, J.G., Li, H.X., Wu, J.X., Yang, L.Z., and Ellis,
E.C. 2007. Soil organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus distribution in
the densely populated village landscapes of different hilly regions (in
Chinese). Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 18(7):1471-1478.
[in Chinese: 焦加国, 杨林章, 武俊喜, 李辉信, Ellis, Erle C. 2007.
我国人口密集的典型丘陵区乡村景观中土壤碳、氮、磷的研究. 应用生态学报 18(7):1471-1478.][download]
Jiao, J. G., J. X. Wu, H. X. Li, L. Z. Yang, H. S. Xiao, and
Ellis, E. C.. 2007. Soil quality in relationship to land use/land
cover in landscape at a village level in Hilly Regions South China (in
Chinese). Acta Pedologica Sinica 44(2):204-211.[in Chinese:
焦加国, 武俊喜, 李辉信, 杨林章, 肖红生, and Ellis, Erle C. 2007. 华南丘陵区村级景观下土地利用/ 土地
覆盖对土壤质量的影响. 土壤学报 44(2):204-211.][download]
Jiao, J., L. Yang, J. Wu, H. Li, and Ellis, E.C..
2007. Soil organic carbon distribution in densely populated village
landscape of different regions (in Chinese).
Acta
Ecologica Sinica 27(5):1969-1977. [in Chinese:
焦加国, 杨林章, 武俊喜, 李辉信, Ellis, Erle C.. 2007. 不同区域的人口密集农村地区土壤有机碳的分布. 生态学报
27(5):1969-1977.] [download]
Wu J.X., Jiao J.G., Xiao H.S., Cheng X., Yang L.Z. and
Ellis E.C.. 2006. Landscape structure, management and soil organic
carbon in the densely populated village landscapes of China's Yangtze Delta
Plain.
Acta Ecologica Sinica 26(12):4135-4147. [in Chinese:
武俊喜, 焦加国, 肖红生, 王洪庆, 程序, 杨林章, Ellis Erle C. 2006. 长江下游平原区乡村景观的结构、管理 和土壤有机碳研究.
生态学报 26(12): 4135-4147]. [download]
Jiao, J.G., Wu, J.X., Yang, L.Z., Li, H.X. and Ellis, E.C.
2006. Effects of land use on soil total nitrogen and phosphorus in different
densely populated village landscapes (in Chinese). Journal of Soil and
Water Conservation (China) 20(3): 97-101. [in Chinese:
焦加国, 武俊喜, 杨林章,李辉信, Ellis. E.C. 2006. 不同区域人口密集的乡村景观中土地利用对土壤氮磷的影响. 水土保持学报
20(3): 97-101.][download]
Ruan, R. Z., and E. C. Ellis. 2005. An illustrative
study on local landscape based on IKONOS (in Chinese). Remote Sensing
Information (3):14-17. [in Chinese: 阮仁宗, E. C. Ellis. 2005.
利用IKONOS进行局部景观生态研究. 遥感信息 (3):14-17.]
Li, S. C., W. C. Liu, X. Cheng, and E. C. Ellis. 2005.
Pattern analysis of village landscapes in the Sichuan Basin Hilly Region
based on high resolution IKONOS remote sensing (in Chinese). Chinese
Journal of Applied Ecology 16:1830-1837. [in Chinese: 李首成,
刘文全, 程序, E. C. Ellis. 2005. 基于高分辨率卫星图的川中丘陵区村级景观格局特征研究.
应用生态学报 16(10):1830-1837]
Peng, K., H. Ouyang, B. Zhu, and E. C. Ellis. 2004. Nitrogen
Balance, Pollution and Management in a Typical Agro- Forest Ecosystem.
Journal of Agro-environmental Science 23:488-493. [in Chinese: 彭奎,
欧阳华, 朱波, Erle C.Ellis
2004. 典型农林复合系统氮素平衡污染与管理研究. 农业环境科学学报 23:488-493] [download]
Ruan, R. Z., and E. C. Ellis. 2004. An illustrative
study on local landscape and its long-term changes based on IKONOS and
historical aerial photo. Chinese Geographical Science 14:162-169.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Ellis, Erle (Lead Author); J. Emmett Duffy (Topic
Editor). 2008. "Ecosystem." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds.
Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition,
National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the
Encyclopedia of Earth July 7, 2008; Last revised October 7, 2008; Retrieved
October 7, 2008]. [download
PDF] dead link: <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Ecosystem>
Ellis, Erle (Lead Author); Jay Gulledge (Topic
Editor). 2008. "Anthropocene." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J.
Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National
Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of
Earth August 26, 2008; Retrieved August 26, 2008]. [download
PDF] dead link: <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Anthropocene>
Ellis, Erle (Lead Author); Leszek A. Bledzki (Topic
Editor). 2008. "Biosphere." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J.
Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National
Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of
Earth June 21, 2008; Retrieved June 23, 2008]. [download
PDF] dead link:
<http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biosphere>
Ellis, Erle and Navin Ramankutty (Lead Authors); Mark
McGinley (Topic Editor). 2007. "Anthropogenic biomes." In:
Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J.
Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National
Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of
Earth November 26, 2007; Retrieved November 27, 2007]. [download
PDF] dead link: <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Anthropogenic_biomes>
Ellis, Erle (Lead Author); Sidney Draggan (Topic
Editor). 2007. "Ecotope." In: Encyclopedia
of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental
Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment).
[Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth November 6, 2007; Retrieved November
6, 2007]. [download
PDF] dead link: <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Ecotope>
Ellis, Erle (Lead Author); Robert Pontius (Topic
Editor). 2007. "Land-use and land-cover change." In:
Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J.
Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National
Council for Science and the Environment). [First published July 17, 2006;
Last revised January 31, 2007; Retrieved April 30, 2007]. [download
PDF] dead link: <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Land-use_and_land-cover_change>
Lambin, Eric and Helmut J. Geist (Lead Authors); Erle
Ellis (Topic Editor). 2007. "Causes of land-use and land-cover change."
In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.:
Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the
Environment). [Published May 2, 2007; Retrieved May 7, 2007]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Causes_of_land-use_and_land-cover_change>