Benjamin M. Bolker

Research interests

Publications

• Parsimoniously Fitting Large Multivariate Random Effects in glmmTMB

  Journal of Statistical Software · 2025 · 10.18637/jss.v112.i01

• Modeling zero-inflated count data with glmmTMB

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2017 · 10.1101/132753

• glmmTMB: Generalized Linear Mixed Models using Template Model Builder

  · 2017 · 10.32614/cran.package.glmmtmb

• Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4

  Journal · 2015

• Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4

  Journal of Statistical Software · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v067.i01

• Linear and generalized linear mixed models

  · 2015 · 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672547.003.0014

• afex: Analysis of Factorial Experiments

  Journal · 2012 · 10.32614/cran.package.afex

• Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

  Global Change Biology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02533.x

• Benefits for Plants in Ant-Plant Protective Mutualisms: A Meta-Analysis

  PLoS ONE · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014308

• Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.10.008

• A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

  PLoS Biology · 2009 · 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000210

• Ecological Models and Data in R

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2008 · 10.2307/j.ctvcm4g37

• Asymptotic profiles of the steady states for an SIS epidemic reaction-diffusion model

  Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems · 2008 · 10.3934/dcds.2008.21.1

• Ecological Models and Data in R

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2008 · 10.1515/9781400840908

• A cross‐system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

  Ecology Letters · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01192.x

• bbmle: Tools for General Maximum Likelihood Estimation

  · 2007 · 10.32614/cran.package.bbmle

• gplots: Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data

  · 2005 · 10.32614/cran.package.gplots

• Effects of Landscape Corridors on Seed Dispersal by Birds

  Science · 2005 · 10.1126/science.1111479

• Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction

  Ecology Letters · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00693.x

• CONNECTING THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF TRAIT-MEDIATED INTERACTIONS

  Ecology · 2003 · 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1101:ctaeso]2.0.co;2

• lme4: Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4

  Journal · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.32614/cran.package.lme4

• Uncertain climate thresholds and optimal economic growth

  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2003 · 10.1016/j.jeem.2003.10.003

• A Simple Model for Complex Dynamical Transitions in Epidemics

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.287.5453.667

• Spatial Moment Equations for Plant Competition: Understanding Spatial Strategies and the Advantages of Short Dispersal

  The American Naturalist · 1999 · 10.1086/303199

• Using Moment Equations to Understand Stochastically Driven Spatial Pattern Formation in Ecological Systems

  Theoretical Population Biology · 1997 · 10.1006/tpbi.1997.1331

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