I am happy to send copies of any of the papers below upon request.

In Review/Press

Forbes, E. J., Stockwell, J. D. (2026). The role of edible habitat complexity in food webs.

Forbes, E. J., Hall, S. R. (2026). 'Loop tracing' feedback reveals mechanisms that drive instabilities in resource-host-parasite dynamics.

Published

Forbes, E. J., Todd, P. M., & Beer, R. D. (2025). The role of signal in saltatory pursuit of cryptic stationary targets. Movement Ecology, 13(1), 89.

Forbes, E. J. (2025). From Nervous Systems to Ecosystems: Modeling Adaptive Behavior in Ecology (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University).

Forbes, E., & Beer, R. (2024). Minimal Modeling for Cognitive Ecologists: Measuring Decision-Making Trade-Offs in Ecological Tasks. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

Forbes, E., & Beer, R. (2024). Deriving Community Models with Evolutionary Robotics: A Case Study of Sensory Pollution. In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 36 (Vol. 2024, No. 1, p. 22). One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA journals-info@ mit. edu: MIT Press.

Forbes, E., & Beer, R. (2023). The Sun Always Rises: Behavioral Attunement to Abiotic Reins. In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 35 (Vol. 2023, No. 1, p. 18). One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA journals-info@ mit.edu: MIT Press.

McShaffrey, C., Forbes, E., & Long, J. H. (2021). Behavior of the encapsulated embryos of little skates, Leucoraja erinacea. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 61, pp. E599-E600). Journals Dept, 2001 Evans Rd, Cary, NC 27513 USA: Oxford Univ Press Inc.

New York Chapter Annual Meeting, NYAFS, February 2026 • Oral presentation, “Automatic detection and measurement of slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) behavior".

Lake Champlain Research Conference, LCBP, January 2026 • Oral presentation, “Predation risk for a migrating macroinvertebrate in benthic and pelagic habitats”.

Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Ecological Society of America, August 2024 • Oral presentation, “Measuring Decision-Making and its Effects in Model Communities”.

Cognitive Science Conference, Cognitive Science Society, July 2024 • Oral presentation, “Minimal Modeling for Cognitive Ecologists: Measuring Decision-Making Trade-Offs in Ecological Tasks”.

Conference of Artificial Life, Society of Artificial Life, July 2024 • Oral presentation, “Deriving Community Models with Evolutionary Robotics: A Case Study of Sensory Pollution”

Conference of Artificial Life, Society of Artificial Life, July 2023 • Oral presentation, “The Sun Always Rises: Behavioral Attunement to Abiotic Reins”.

Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference, ASIC, June 2022 • Oral presentation, “Ecosystem Thermodynamics & the Origins of Individuality”.

Attached below is my doctoral thesis, also available on ProQuest: https://www.proquest.com/docview/3253979822?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses