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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  2. Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, March 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  3. Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, January 2020, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  4. To Conserve Nature in the Anthropocene, Half Earth Is Not Nearly Enough

    Article • One Earth, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  5. Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: an implementation framework

    Article • National Science Review, September 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  6. Evolution: Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Article • Current Biology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  7. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Article • Science, August 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Agustín Angel Diez Castillo, Professor Erle C Ellis, Dr Andrea Kay, Dr Gwen Robbins Schug, Prof. Gilberto Artioli

  8. Sharing the land between nature and people

    Article • Science, June 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  9. Half Earth: promises, pitfalls, and prospects of dedicating Half of Earth’s land to conservation

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  10. Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  11. Ecosystem services and nature’s contribution to people: negotiating diverse values and trade-offs in land systems

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  12. The chronostratigraphic method is unsuitable for determining the start of the Anthropocene

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  13. From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for anthropogenic geomorphology

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Professor Paolo Tarolli

  14. Middle-range theories of land system change

    Article • Global Environmental Change, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Dr Daniel Mueller

  15. The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet

    Article • Nature Sustainability, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  16. A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

    Article • Nature Sustainability, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  17. Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques. Second Edition. Edited by Sarah E. Gergel and Monica G. Turner. New York: Springer. $69.99 (paper). xviii + 347 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-4939-6372-0 (pb); 978-1-4939-6374-4 (...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, June 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  18. Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems

    Article • Global Environmental Change, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  19. The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2018, Nature

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  20. The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring Understanding of Social-Environmental Change

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  21. Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction

    Article • March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  22. Species distribution modeling in regions of high need and limited data: waterfowl of China

    Article • Avian Research, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  23. Engineering the Anthropocene: Scalable social networks and resilience building in human evolutionary timescales

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  24. Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change

    Article • Sustainability Science, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  25. Physical geography in the Anthropocene

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, October 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  26. The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Article • Anthropocene, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta, Dr. Irka Hajdas

  27. Transparency and Control of Autonomous Wildness: A Reply to Galaz and Mouazen

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  28. An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Article • BioScience, April 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  29. What is the Point? Evaluating the Structure, Color, and Semantic Traits of Computer Vision Point Clouds of Vegetation

    Article • Remote Sensing, April 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  30. Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques

    Article • Newsletters on Stratigraphy, April 2017, Schweizerbart

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta

  31. Mapping the Topographic Fingerprints of Humanity Across Earth

    Article • Eos, March 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Professor Paolo Tarolli

  32. Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  33. Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene

    Article • Nature, December 2016, Nature

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  34. Evolving human landscapes: a virtual laboratory approach

    Article • Journal of Land Use Science, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  35. Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  36. Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Article • Earth s Future, August 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta

  37. Evolving the human niche

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  38. Spatial Modeling of Wild Bird Risk Factors for Highly Pathogenic A(H5N1) Avian Influenza Virus Transmission

    Article • Avian Diseases, May 2016, American Association of Avian Pathologists (AAAP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  39. Ambiguous Geographies: Connecting Case Study Knowledge with Global Change Science

    Article • Annals of the American Association of Geographers, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  40. The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere

    Article • Earth s Future, March 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta

  41. Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

    Article • Reviews of Geophysics, February 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  42. The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Article • Science, January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta

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

    Article • Anthropocene, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

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

    Article • Remote Sensing, October 2015, MDPI AG

    Professor Erle C Ellis

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

    Article • Quaternary International, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta, Dr. Irka Hajdas

  46. Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects

    Article • AMBIO, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  47. Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

    Article • Ecological Monographs, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  48. The Anthropogenic Biosphere

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  49. The Anthropocene biosphere

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Mark Williams, Professor Erle C Ellis

  50. Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  51. Forest census and map data for two temperate deciduous forest edge woodlot patches in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Article • Ecology, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  52. Colonization of the Americas, ‘Little Ice Age’ climate, and bomb-produced carbon: Their role in defining the Anthropocene

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof. Alejandro Cearreta, Dr. Irka Hajdas

  53. Defining the epoch we live in

    Article • Science, April 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  54. Vital Signs, Volume 20 . The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future. By Worldwatch Institute; Project Director:, Michael Renner. Washington (DC): Island Press. $19.99 (paper). xv + 150 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-1-61091-456-7. 2013.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  55. Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  56. GLOBE: Analytics for Assessing Global Representativeness

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  57. Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  58. Conservation opportunities across the world's anthromes

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  59. Towards decision-based global land use models for improved understanding of the Earth system

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  60. Contextualizing the global relevance of local land change observations

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, February 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  61. Cross-Site Comparison of Land-Use Decision-Making and Its Consequences across Land Systems with a Generalized Agent-Based Model

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2014, PLOS

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  62. Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor H John B Birks, Professor Erle C Ellis, Prof Mariusz Lamentowicz

  63. Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

    Article • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, December 2013, University of California Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  64. The Ecological Footprint Remains a Misleading Metric of Global Sustainability

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Erle C Ellis

  65. Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Erle C Ellis

  66. Exploring Agricultural Livelihood Transitions with an Agent-Based Virtual Laboratory: Global Forces to Local Decision-Making

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  67. Sustaining biodiversity and people in the world's anthropogenic biomes

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

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

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  69. Discovering Ecologically Relevant Knowledge from Published Studies through Geosemantic Searching

    Article • BioScience, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  70. Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Erle C Ellis

  71. Used planet: A global history

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  72. The concept of global tipping points is flawed

    Article • The New Scientist, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  73. Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face . By Peter F. Sale. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $34.95. xii + 339 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-520-26756-5. 2011.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  74. The Extent of Novel Ecosystems: Long in Time and Broad in Space

    Article • January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  75. Perspective: Is Everything a Novel Ecosystem? If so, do we need the Concept?

    Article • January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  76. Origins of the Novel Ecosystems Concept

    Article • January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  77. Using Pattern-oriented Modeling (POM) to Cope with Uncertainty in Multi-scale Agent-based Models of Land Change

    Article • Transactions in GIS, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  78. Designing a system for land change science meta-study

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  79. Mapping Avian Influenza Transmission Risk at the Interface of Domestic Poultry and Wild Birds

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  80. Pushing the Planetary Boundaries

    Article • Science, December 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Fridolin Krausmann, Professor Erle C Ellis

  81. Political Animals

    Article • BioScience, June 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  82. Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future

    Article • BioScience, June 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

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

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  84. All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2012, PLOS

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  85. A global assessment of market accessibility and market influence for global environmental change studies

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, July 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  86. A world of our making

    Article • The New Scientist, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  87. Modelling the distribution of chickens, ducks, and geese in China

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis, Dr Fred P Gale

  88. Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  89. Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

    Article • The Holocene, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  90. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Stefan Siebert, Professor Erle C Ellis

  91. Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Using Computer Vision

    Article • Remote Sensing, April 2010, MDPI AG

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  92. Land Use and Soil Organic Carbon in China's Village Landscapes

    Article • Pedosphere, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  93. Effect of per-capita land use changes on Holocene forest clearance and CO2 emissions

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  94. Distributions of soil phosphorus in China’s densely populated village landscapes

    Article • Journal of Soils and Sediments, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  95. Agricultural landscape change in China's Yangtze Delta, 1942–2002: A case study

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  96. Estimating Long-Term Changes in China’s Village Landscapes

    Article • Ecosystems, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  97. Earth Science in the Anthropocene: New Epoch, New Paradigm, New Responsibilities

    Article • Eos, January 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  98. Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  99. Environmental Revolution Starts at Home

    Article • Science, June 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  100. Measuring change

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  101. Key Topics in Landscape Ecology . Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology . Edited by Jianguo Wu and , Richard J Hobbs. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $135.00 (hardcover); $65.00 (paper). xv + 297 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐521‐85...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  102. Estimating area errors for fine‐scale feature‐based ecological mapping

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  103. Ecological Revitalization of Chinese Villages

    Article • Science, June 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  104. Measuring long-term ecological changes in densely populated landscapes using current and historical high resolution imagery

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  105. Image Misregistration Error in Change Measurements

    Article • Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, September 2005, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  106. Spatial accuracy of orthorectified IKONOS imagery and historical aerial photographs across five sites in China

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  107. Policy implications of human-accelerated nitrogen cycling

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  108. Article • Biodegradation, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  109. Nitrogen and the Sustainable Village

    Article • September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  110. Field-Scale Nutrient Cycling and Sustainability

    Article • September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  111. Changes in Village-Scale Nitrogen Storage in China's Tai Lake Region

    Article • Ecological Applications, August 2000, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  112. Long-Term Change in Village-Scale Ecosystems in China Using Landscape and Statistical Methods

    Article • Ecological Applications, August 2000, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  113. LONG-TERM CHANGE IN VILLAGE-SCALE ECOSYSTEMS IN CHINA USING LANDSCAPE AND STATISTICAL METHODS

    Article • Ecological Applications, August 2000, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  114. CHANGES IN VILLAGE-SCALE NITROGEN STORAGE IN CHINA'S TAI LAKE REGION

    Article • Ecological Applications, August 2000, Wiley

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  115. Sustainable Traditional Agriculture in the Tai Lake Region of China

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, February 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Erle C Ellis

  116. Changes in Photosynthate Unloading from Perfused Seed Coats of Phaseolus vulgaris L. Induced by Osmoticum and Ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, January 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erle C Ellis