Doctor of Philosophy, Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; 2007-2012

• Title: Climate driven changes to coastal upwelling ecosystems: The effects of temperature on community stability and dynamics
• Advisor: Dr. Bruce Menge

Master of Science, Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec; 2001-2003

• Title: The influence of food web simplification on fish energetics*
• Advisor: Dr. Joseph Rasmussen
  

* Awarded the Dean's Honor List distinction

Bachelor of Science, McGill School of the Environment, McGill University, Montréal, Québec; 1999-2003

• Concentration: Biodiversity & Conservation

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

• Theory in Biodiversity Research Group

Postdoc, Novak Lab, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; 2013 - 2015

• Ecological network complexity and predictive certainty

Senior Research Specialist, Arizona Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; 2004-2007

• Field and freshwater mesocosms research native desert stream communities;
• Assisting in the development of an international text on standard sampling of freshwater fishes

Brose, U., P. Archambault, A. Barnes, L-F. Bersier, T. Boy, J. Canning-Clode, M. Dias, C. Digel, A. Dissanayake, A. A.V. Flores, K. Fussmann, B. Gauzens, C. Gray, J. Häußler, M. R. Hirt, U. Jacob, M. Jochum, S. Kefi, O. McLaughlin, M. Kroll, E. Latz, K. Layer-Dobra, P. Legagneux, Y. Li, C. Madeira, N. D. Martinez, V. Mendonça, C. Mulder, S. Navarrete, E. O'Gorman, D. Ott, J. Paula, D. Perkins, D. Piechnik, D. Raffaelli, B. C. Rall, B. Rosenbaum, R. Ryser, V. Sechi, A. Silva, E. Sohlström, M. S. A. Thompson, R. Thompson, F. Vermandele, C. Vinagre, S. Wang, J. M. Wefer, E. Wieters, G. Woodward & A. C. Iles. In press. Species traits and ecosystem signatures in the predator-prey body-mass scaling of natural food webs. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Pennekamp F., A. Iles (shared first author), J. Garland, G. Brennan, U. Brose, U. Gaedke, U. Jacob, P. Kratina, B. Matthews, S. Munch, M. Novak, G. M. Palamara, B. Rall, B. Rosenbaum, A. Tabi, C. Ward, R. Williams, H. Ye, O. Petchey. 2019. The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting. Ecological Monographs.

Iles, A. C. and M. Novak. 2016. Complexity increases predictability in allometrically-constrained food webs.The American Naturalist 188:1

A.C. Iles. 2014. Toward predicting community level effects of climate: relative temperature scaling of metabolic and ingestion rates. Ecology 95:9, 2657-2668

Iles, A. C., T. C. Gouhier, B. A. Menge, J. Stewart, A. Haupt and M. Lynch. 2012. Climate driven trends and implications of event-scale upwelling in the California Current System. Global Change Biology 18:783-796

Kéfi, S., Berlow, E. L., Wieters, E. A., Navarrete, S. A., Petchey, O. L., Wood, S. A., Boit, A., Joppa, L. N., Lafferty, K. D., Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D., Menge, B. A., Blanchette, C. A., Iles, A. C. and Brose, U. 2012. More than a meal... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs. Ecology Letters 15, 291-300

Iles, A.C., T.P. Archdeacon, and S.A. Bonar. 2012. Novel praziquantel treatment regime for controlling Asian tapeworm infections in pond-reared fish. North American Journal of Aquaculture 74:1, 113-117

Woodson, C. B., J. A. Barth, O. M. Cheriton, M. A. McManus, J. P. Ryan, L. Washburn, K. N. Carden, B. S. Cheng, J. Fernandes, L. E. Garske, T. C. Gouhier, A. J. Haupt, K. T. Honey, M. F. Hubbard, A. Iles, L. Kara, M. C. Lynch, B. Mahoney, M. Pfaff, M. L. Pinsky, M. J. Robart, J. S. Stewart, S. J. Teck and A. True. 2011. Observations of internal wave packets propagating along-shelf in northern Monterey Bay. Geophysical Research Letters 38:L01605.

Archdeacon, T.P., A. Iles, S.J. Kline, S.A. Bonar. 2010. Asian Fish Tapeworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi in the Desert Southwestern United States. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 22: 274-279.

Menge, B. A., F. Chan, S. Dudas, D. Eerkes-Medrano, K. Grorud-Colvert, K. Heiman, M. Hessing-Lewis, A. Iles, R. Milston-Clements, M. Noble, K. Page-Albins, E. Richmond, G. Rilov, J. Rose, J. Tyburczy, L. Vinueza and P. Zarnetske. 2009. Do terrestrial ecologists ignore aquatic literature? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:182-183.

Rasmussen, J.B., J.M. Gunn, G. Sherwood, A. Iles, A. Gagnon, P.G.C. Campbell, and A. Hontela. 2008. Direct and indirect (foodweb mediated) effects of metal exposure on the growth of yellow perch (Perca flavescens): implications for Ecological Risk Assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 14: 317-350.

Iles, A.C., and J.B. Rasmussen. 2005. Indirect effects of metal contamination on energetics of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) resulting from food web simplification. Freshwater Biology 50: 976-992.

Iles, A.C. In prep. Effects of temperature on community and population stability in allometric trophic networks.

Menge, B.A., A.C. Iles, and T.L. Freidenburg. 2013. Keystone Species. In S. A. Levin, Editor. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, second edition, Volume 4, pp. 442-457. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.

Bonar, S.A., S. Contreras-Balderas, and A.C. Iles. 2009. An Introduction to Standardized Sampling. In S.A. Bonar, W.A. Hubert, and D.W. Willis, Editors. Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 20 pp.

Brouder, M., A.C. Iles, and S.A. Bonar. 2009. North American averages of length frequency, condition, growth, and catch per effort. In S.A. Bonar, W.A. Hubert, and D.W. Willis, Editors. Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 64 pp

Allen, S., D. Beard, W. Fisher, L. Hartsell, A. Iles, F. Janssen, A. Loftus, M. McGuire, D. Miller, A. Ostroff, S. Shipman, S. Stedman, and J. Waldon. 2006. Proceedings of the National Fisheries Data Summit: Focusing on applications to the National Fish Habitat Initiative. Salt Lake City, Utah.

2016 Synthesis Centre of Biodiversity Sciences (sDiv), Working group proposal, €28,050

2014 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Postoctoral Research Fellowship, ~$100,000 USD

2009 National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Post-Graduate Scholarship, $42,000 CND

2009 Mamie Markham Award, $10,000

2007 National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Post-Graduate Scholarship, (declined)

2011 Bayley Award, OSU Zoology Department Nominee

2009 PISCO Intertidal Biomechanics, Ecological Physiology & Genetics, Course Housing & Travel Award

2008 PISCO Physical and Oceanography and Marine Ecosystems, Course Tuition, Housing & Travel Award

2003 Dean's Honor List, McGill University

2011 Ecosystem Ecologist Search Committee, Department of Zoology, OSU

2011 PISCO Outreach lecture to The Academy for Lifelong Learning

2008-2009 Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Steering Committee

2007 Invasive Crayfish Control, Arizona Game & Fish Research

2006 National Fisheries Data Summit, Salt Lake City, Utah, Steering committee

2006 Annual monitoring of Colorado River fishes, Arizona Game & Fish, Volunteer

2004 Desert Fishes Council Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Steering committee