Elise Larsen (she/her/they)

Role: Post-doctoral Associate
Status: Current
Current Affiliation: Georgetown University
Current Email: eal109@georgetown.edu
Google Scholar Link: http://tinyurl.com/EALarsen-GS
CV: PDF icon LarsenCV.pdf
Start year: 2013
Interests:
Ecology, population dynamics, phenology, disturbance. I am fascinated by butterfly dynamics, currently focusing on how species traits mediate timing and abundance patterns. I'm broadly interested in animal responses to environmental change at the population level and how those responses vary in relation to individual and population traits. I've worked primarily with birds and butterflies. I work mostly with community science platforms reporting surveys (Pollardbase, Discover Life) and opportunistic observations (iNaturalist, eButterfly).
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Publications

2020

Belitz, M.W., E.A.Larsen*, L.Ries and R.P. Guralnick. 2020. The accuracy of phenology estimators for use with sparsely sampled presence-only observations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11:1273–1285

Larsen, E., Shirey, V. In Press. Method matters: pitfalls in analyzing phenology from occurrence records. Ecology Letters

2019

Abarca, M., E.A. Larsen, and L. Ries. (2019). Heatwaves and Novel Host Consumption Increase Overwinter Mortality of an Imperiled Wetland Butterfly. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7: 193. doi: 10.3389/fevo.

2018

Abarca, M., E. Larsen, J.T. Lill, M. Weiss, E. Lind, L. Ries. 2018. Inclusion of host quality data improves predictions of herbivore phenology. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 166 (8), 648-660

2016

Thorson, J.T., J.N. Ianelli, E.A. Larsen, L. Ries, M.D. Scheuerell, C. Szuwalski, and E.F. Zipkin. 2016. Joint dynamic species distribution models: a tool for community ordination and spatio‐temporal monitoring. Global Ecology and Biogeography.