J. Ellers

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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