Matthew Helmus

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Matthew Helmus

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 2227

Principles of Ecology

Undergraduate

BIOL 3323

Global Change Science: Analytics with R

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 5323

Global Change Science: Analytics with R

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Huron, N.A., Behm, J.E., & Helmus, M.R. (2022). Paninvasion severity assessment of a U.S. grape pest to disrupt the global wine market. Commun Biol, 5(1), 655. England. 10.1038/s42003-022-03580-w

  • Jarzyna, M.A., Norman, K.E., LaMontagne, J.M., Helmus, M.R., Li, D., Parker, S.M., Rocha, M.P., Record, S., Sokol, E.R., Zarnetske, P.L., & Surasinghe, T.D. (2022). Community stability is related to animal diversity change. ECOSPHERE, 13(3). 10.1002/ecs2.3970

  • Prinzing, A., Pavoine, S., Jactel, H., Hortal, J., Hennekens, S.M., Ozinga, W.A., Bartish, I.V., Helmus, M.R., Kühn, I., Moen, D.S., Weiher, E., Brändle, M., Winter, M., Violle, C., Venail, P., Purschke, O., & Yguel, B. (2021). Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants. New Phytol, 232(4), 1849-1862. England. 10.1111/nph.17705

  • Ordway, E., Elmore, A., Kolstoe, S., Quinn, J., Swanwick, R., Cattau, M., Taillie, D., Guinn, S., Chadwick, K., Atkins, J., Blake, R., Chapman, M., Cobourn, K., Goulden, T., Helmus, M., Hondula, K., Hritz, C., Jensen, J., Julian, J., Kuwayama, Y., Lulla, V., O’Leary, D., Nelson, D., Ocón, J., Pau, S., Ponce-Campos, G., Portillo-Quintero, C., Pricope, N., Rivero, R., Schneider, L., Steele, M., Tulbure, M., Williamson, M., & Wilson, C. (2021). Leveraging the NEON Airborne Observation Platform for socio-environmental systems research. Ecosphere, 12(6). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3640.

  • Li, D., Dinnage, R., Nell, L., Helmus, M., & Ives, A. (2020). phyr: An r package for phylogenetic species-distribution modelling in ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(11), 1455-1463. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13471.

  • Helmus, M. & Behm, J. (2020). Island biogeography revisited. In Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 1-5 (pp. 51-56). doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11945-1.

  • Jesse, W.A., Molleman, J., Franken, O., Lammers, M., Berg, M.P., Behm, J.E., Helmus, M.R., & Ellers, J. (2020). Disentangling the effects of plant species invasion and urban development on arthropod community composition. Glob Chang Biol, 26(6), 3294-3306. England. 10.1111/gcb.15091

  • Tran, T., Helmus, M., & Behm, J. (2020). Green infrastructure space and traits (GIST) model: Integrating green infrastructure spatial placement and plant traits to maximize multifunctionality. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 49. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126635.