Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand received her Ph.D. degree in quantitative ecology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1997. She was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), postdoctoral fellowship with tenure at the University of Trieste, Utrecht University, and the University of New Mexico. She also spent one year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship. Subsequently, she held the Canada Research Chair in Biocomplexity of the Environment, Laurentian University, for five years and currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change as an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. Her research spans several fields including forest ecology, biodiversity and conservation, computational ecology, ecological informatics, and ecological modeling and includes active collaborations with scientists in Europe, Brazil, and China. She holds an Adjunct professorship with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. She is currently on the editorial board of the journal Community Ecology and has served as a reviewer for several international journals and granting agencies. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Premier’s Research Excellence Award and the University of Western Ontario Young Alumni Award of Merit.

Biography Updated on 10 July 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Rapid morphological change in stream beetle museum specimens correlates with climate change
    Ecological Entomology, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 646–651, 2008
  2. Interactions between climate change, competition, dispersal, and disturbances in a tree migration model
    Theoretical Ecology, 2008
  3. Symmetric competition causes population oscillations in an individual-based model of forest dynamics
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 211, no. 3-4, pp. 491–500, 2008
  4. The effects of endogenous ecological memory on population stability and resilience in a variable environment
    Ecological Modelling, 2008
  5. Measuring information-based complexity across scales using cluster analysis
    Ecological Informatics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 121–127, 2007
  6. Trophic structure and dynamical complexity in simple ecological models
    Ecological Complexity, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 212–222, 2007
  7. Propagation of local interactions create global gap structure and dynamics in a tropical rainforest
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 247, no. 1, pp. 168–181, 2007
  8. Spatial complexity of ecological communities: Bridging the gap between probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty measures
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 197, no. 1-2, pp. 59–66, 2006
  9. Multiscale analysis of palynological records: new possibilities
    Community Ecology, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 53–67, 2006
  10. Do generalized scaling laws exist for species abundance distribution in mountains?
    Oikos, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 060721080235011–???, 2006
  11. Quantifying the Components of Biocomplexity Along Ecological Perturbation Gradients
    Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 14, no. 14, pp. 3437–3455, 2005
  12. Lattice geometry, gap formation and scale invariance in forests
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 236, no. 1, pp. 79–87, 2005
  13. On the use of stationary versus hidden Markov models to detect simple versus complex ecological dynamics
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 185, no. 2-4, pp. 177–193, 2005
  14. Assessing Simple Versus Complex Restoration Strategies for Industrially Disturbed Forests
    Restoration Ecology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 639–650, 2005
  15. Diversity Relationships among Taxonomic Groups in Recovering and Restored Forests
    Conservation Biology, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 955–962, 2005
  16. Multiple-scale soil moisture distribution and its implications for ecosystem restoration in an arid river valley, China
    Land Degradation & Development, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 75–85, 2004
  17. Quantification of Restoration Success Using Complex Systems Concepts and Models
    Restoration Ecology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 117–123, 2004
  18. Characterising biocomplexity and soil microbial dynamics along a smelter-damaged landscape gradient
    The Science of The Total Environment, vol. 311, no. 1-3, pp. 247–259, 2003
  19. The use of matrix models to detect natural and pollution-induced forest gradients
    Community Ecology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 89–100, 2003
  20. Some interesting characteristics of the vegetation process
    Community Ecology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 125–146, 2002
  21. Biodiversity analysis: issues, concepts, techniques
    Community Ecology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 217–236, 2002
  22. Spatiotemporal dynamics in a transition zone: patchiness, scale, and an emergent property
    Community Ecology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 161–169, 2001
  23. Acta Biotheoretica, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 1–14, 2000
  24. On hierarchical partitioning of an ecological complexity function
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 132, no. 1-2, pp. 51–61, 2000
  25. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 337–344, 1997
  26. Complexity in Plant Communities: the Notion and Quantification
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 179, no. 2, pp. 179–186, 1996