Anthony Ives

About

Anthony Ives is a Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Entomology. His research interests include community ecology, population biology, evolution, and behavior. He is based in Noland Hall, Lowell E 250, Madison, WI, and can be contacted via phone at 608-262-1519 or email at arives@wisc.edu. His work focuses on understanding ecological and evolutionary processes, contributing to the broader field of entomology and ecology.

Research topics

• Biology
• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Ecology
• Evolutionary biology
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Statistics
• Geography
• Demography

Selected publications

• Trade-Offs (and Constraints) in Organismal Biology

  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology · 2021 · 244 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  AbstractTrade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined, categorized, and studied in at least six, not mutually exclusive, ways. (1) Allocation constraints are caused by a limited resource (e.g., energy, time, space, essential nutrients), such that increasing allocation to one component necessarily requires a decrease in another (if only two components are involved, this is…

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• phyr: An <scp>r</scp> package for phylogenetic species‐distribution modelling in ecological communities

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2020 · 183 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Model‐based approaches are increasingly popular in ecological studies. A good example of this trend is the use of joint species distribution models to ask questions about ecological communities. However, most current applications of model‐based methods do not include phylogenies despite the well‐known importance of phylogenetic relationships in shaping species distributions and community composition. In part, this is due to a lack of accessible tools allowing ecologists to fit phylogene…

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• Estimating and explaining the spread of COVID-19 at the county level in the USA

  Communications Biology · 2021 · 53 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  argues for public health policies enacted at the county level for controlling COVID-19.

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• Disentangling the drivers of decadal body size decline in an insect population

  Global Change Biology · 2023-11-09 · 12 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract While climate warming is widely predicted to reduce body size of ectotherms, evidence for this trend is mixed. Body size depends not only on temperature but also on other factors, such as food quality and intraspecific competition. Because temperature trends or other long‐term environmental factors may affect population size and food sources, attributing trends in average body size to temperature requires the separation of potentially confounding effects. We evaluated trends in the body…

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• Dispersal stabilizes coupled ecological and evolutionary dynamics in a host-parasitoid system

  Science · 2024-03-14 · 11 citations

  articleSenior author

  When ecological and evolutionary dynamics occur on comparable timescales, persistence of the ensuing eco-evolutionary dynamics requires both ecological and evolutionary stability. This unites key questions in ecology and evolution: How do species coexist, and what maintains genetic variation in a population? In this work, we investigated a host-parasitoid system in which pea aphid hosts rapidly evolve resistance to Aphidius ervi parasitoids. Field data and mathematical simulations showed that he…

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Recent grants

• LTREB: Interactions Between Population and Ecosystem Dynamics, and the High-Amplitude Fluctuations of Midge Abundances in Lake Myvatn, Iceland

  NSF · $674k · 2022–2027

• MSPA-CSE: Analysis and Detection of Transient Dynamics in Ecological Systems

  NSF · $132k · 2004–2008

• Measures and Models of Phylogenetic Structure in Community Composition and Dynamics

  NSF · $298k · 2008–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Stephen R. Carpenter

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  35 shared

• Brian Dennis

  University of Idaho

  30 shared

• Joseph S. Phillips

  Creighton University

  29 shared

• Jason P. Harmon

  North Dakota State University

  24 shared

• Volker C. Radeloff

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  20 shared

• Árni Einarsson

  University of Iceland

  20 shared

• Christopher K. Williams

  South College

  20 shared

• Matthew R. Helmus

  19 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Entomology

  University of California, Berkeley

  1990

• M.S., Entomology

  University of California, Berkeley

  1986

• B.S., Entomology

  University of California, Davis

  1984

Similar researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Cameron Currieh-99
• Claudio Grattonh-61
• Bobbi Peckarskyh-53