Aaron A. King, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
University of Michigan


Selected Publications.

Abstract A. A. King, S. Shrestha, E. T. Harvill, and O. N. Bjørnstad (2009) Evolution of acute infections and the invasion-persistence trade-off. American Naturalist173: 446-455. DOI 
Abstract C. Bretó, D. He, E. L. Ionides, and A. A. King (2009) Time series analysis via mechanistic models. Annals of Applied Statistics3: 319-348. DOI 
Abstract D. He, E. L. Ionides, and A. A. King (2009) Plug-and-play inference for disease dynamics: measles in large and small populations as a case study. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, in press. DOI 
E. C. Farrer, D. E. Goldberg, and A. A. King (2009) Time lags and the balance of positive and negative interactions in driving grassland community dynamics. American Naturalist, in press. 
Abstract J. A. Scales, A. A. King, and M. A. Butler (2009) Running for Your Life or Running for Your Dinner: What Drives Fiber-Type Evolution in Lizard Locomotor Muscles?. American Naturalist173: 543-553. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King, E. L. Ionides, M. Pascual, and M. J. Bouma (2008) Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics. Nature454: 877-880. DOI 
Abstract D. T. Dimitrov and A. A. King (2008) Modeling evolution and persistence of neurological viral diseases in wild populations.. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering5: 729-741. DOI 
E. L. Ionides, C. Bretó, and A. A. King (2007) Modeling disease dynamics: Cholera as a case study. Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences (edited by A. Biswas, S. Datta, J. Fine, and M. Segal) DOI 
Abstract E. L. Ionides, C. Bretó, and A. A. King (2006) Inference for nonlinear dynamical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America103: 18438-18443. DOI 
Abstract R. A. Desharnais, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, S. M. Henson, B. Dennis, and A. A. King (2006) Experimental support of the scaling rule for demographic stochasticity. Ecology Letters9: 537-547. DOI 
R. F. Costantino, R. A. Desharnais, J. M. Cushing, B. Dennis, S. M. Henson, and A. A. King (2005) Nonlinear Stochastic Population Dynamics: The Flour Beetle Tribolium as an Effective Tool of Discovery. Advances in Ecological Research37Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology (edited by R. A. Desharnais) 101-141. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, S. M. Henson, R. A. Desharnais, and B. Dennis (2004) Anatomy of a chaotic attractor: subtle model-predicted patterns revealed in population data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America101: 408-413. DOI 
Abstract M. A. Butler and A. A. King (2004) Phylogenetic comparative analysis: a modeling approach for adaptive evolution. American Naturalist164: 683-695.. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King and A. Hastings (2003) Spatial mechanisms for coexistence of species with a shared natural enemy. Theoretical Population Biology64: 431-438. DOI 
Abstract S. M. Henson, A. A. King, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, B. Dennis, and R. A. Desharnais (2003) Explaining and Predicting Patterns in Stochastic Population Systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B270: 1549-1553. DOI 
A. A. King, R. A. Desharnais, S. M. Henson, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, and B. Dennis (2002) Random Perturbations and Lattice Effects in Population Dynamics. Science297: 2163. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King and W. M. Schaffer (2001) The Geometry of a Population Cycle: A Mechanistic Model of Snowshoe Hare Demography. Ecology82: 814-830. DOI 
Abstract J. M. Cushing, S. M. Henson, R. A. Desharnais, B. Dennis, R. F. Costantino, and A. King. (2001) A Chaotic Attractor in Ecology: Theory and Experimental Data. Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals12: 219-234. DOI 
Abstract S. M. Henson, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, R. A. Desharnais, B. Dennis, and A. A. King (2001) Lattice Effects Observed in Chaotic Dynamics of Experimental Populations. Science294: 602-605. DOI 
Abstract W. M. Schaffer, B. S. Pederson, B. K. Moore, O. Skarpaas, A. A. King, and T. V. Bronnikova (2001) Subharmonic resonance and multi-annual oscillations in northern mammals: a nonlinear dynamical systems perspective. Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals12: 251-264. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King (1999) Hamiltonian Limits and Subharmonic Resonance in Models of Population Fluctuations. Ph.D. thesis, University of Arizona. 
Abstract A. A. King and W. M. Schaffer (1999) The Rainbow Bridge: Hamiltonian Limits and Resonance in Predator-Prey Dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Biology39: 439-469. DOI 
Abstract A. A. King, W. M. Schaffer, J. Treat, C. Gordon, and M. Kot (1996) Weakly Dissipative Predator-Prey Systems. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology58: 835-860. DOI 

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