Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research
I am interested to understand how an individual’s phenotype is shaped by the joint interplay of its genes, genome, and environment. I combine molecular, physiological and experimental tools with evolutionary approaches to link the underlying mechanisms to adaptive explanations.
Check my full research profile at our departmental website www.amsterdamecology.nl
NEWEST PUBLICATION:
Jesse, W.A.M., Behm, J.E., Helmus, M.R. & Ellers, J. 2018. Human land use promotes the abundance and diversity of exotic species on Caribbean islands. Global Change Biology 24: 4784-4796. PDF
Key publications
1. Ellers, J., Berg, M.P., Dias, A.T.C., Fontana, S., Ooms, A. & Moretti, M. 2018. Diversity in form and function: vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multi-dimensional trait variation. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:933-944. PDF
2. Franken, O., Huizinga, M., Ellers, J. & Berg, M.P. 2018. Heated communities: Large inter- and intraspecific variation in heat tolerance across trophic levels of a soil arthropod community. Oecologia 186: 311-322.
3. Harvey, J.A., van den Berg, D., Ellers, J., Kampen, R., Crowther, T.C., Roessingh, P., Verheggen, B., Nuijten, R.J.M., Post, E., Lewandowsky, S., Stirling, I., Amstrup, S.C. & Mann, M.E. 2018. Internet blogs, polar bears and climate change denial by proxy. Bioscience 68: 281-287. PDF
4. Holmstrup, M., Ehlers, B., Slotsbo, S., Ilieva-Makulec, K., Didrik Sigurdsson, B., Leblans, N., Ellers, J. & Berg, M. 2018. Reduction in functional diversity of Collembola after short-term warming is restored in the long term. Functional Ecology 32: 1304-1316.
5. Ellers, J., Crowther, T.W. & Harvey, J.A. 2017. Gold Open Access Publishing in Mega Journals: Developing Countries Pay the Price of Western Premium Academic Output. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 49: 89-102. PDF
Other links
I am a board member of the Origins Center, for the study of origins and evolution of life, planets and the universe
Learn about our research on invasive species in the TV-interview NPO Kennis van Nu: Invasie van exotische soorten (20 april 2017)
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Research Output 1996 2019
Adaptive changes in sexual signalling in response to urbanization
Halfwerk, W., Blaas, M., Kramer, L., Hijner, N., Trillo, P. A., Bernal, X. E., Page, R. A., Goutte, S., Ryan, M. J. & Ellers, J., Mar 2019, In : Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3, p. 374-380 7 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
urbanization
frogs
frog
phenotype
sexual selection
Feeling the Heat: Effects of extreme climatic events on species performance, interactions and community composition
Franken, O., 2019, 205 p.Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU › Academic
Open Access
File
First records of the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris Dumeril and Bibron, 1836), common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus in Dumeril, 1836 and Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko Linnaeus, 1758) on Curacao, Dutch Antilles, and remarks on their Caribbean distributions
Behm, J. E., van Buurt, G., DiMarco, B. M., Ellers, J., Irian, C. G., Langhans, K. E., McGrath, K., Tran, T. J. & Helmus, M. R., Mar 2019, In : BIOINVASIONS RECORDS. 8, 1, p. 34-44Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Functional characterisation of two Δ12-desaturases demonstrates targeted production of linoleic acid as pheromone precursor in Nasonia
Semmelmann, F., Kabeya, N., Malcicka, M., Bruckmann, A., Broschwitz, B., Straub, K., Merkl, R., Monroig, O., Sterner, R., Ruther, J. & Ellers, J., 16 May 2019, In : The Journal of experimental biology. 222, jeb201038 .Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Nasonia
Pheromones
Linoleic Acid
pheromone
pheromones
Gene expression changes associated with the evolutionary loss of a metabolic trait: Lack of lipogenesis in parasitoids
Lammers, M., Kraaijeveld, K., Mariën, J. & Ellers, J., 23 Apr 2019, In : BMC Genomics. 20, 309.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Lipogenesis
Gene Expression
Genes
malonyl-CoA decarboxylase
Metabolic Networks and Pathways