Arianne Cease
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Phone: 480-965-7145
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Mail code: 7904Campus: Tempe
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Arianne Cease is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability and School of Life Sciences, and Director of ASU's Global Locust Initiative. She is a sustainability scientist with a focus on the ecology and physiology of organisms in coupled natural and human systems. Her research involves transdisciplinary approaches to understanding how human-plant-insect interactions affect the sustainability of agricultural systems, including lab and field studies. In particular, she works with collaborative teams to study locust plagues and phenotypic plasticity in response to agricultural practices in China, Australia, West Africa, and South America. A key goal of her research is to improve sustainable ecosystem management and rural livelihoods. Having a cohesive and approachable team that supports scientists and practitioners with different identities and from different cultures and training backgrounds to flourish is a central priority.
- Ph.D. Biology, Arizona State University 2012
- B.S. Zoology, minor Chemistry, Oregon State University 2004
Word ML, Hall SJ, Robinson BE, Manneh B, Beye A, Cease AJ. 2019. Soil-targeted interventions could alleviate locust and grasshopper pest pressure in West Africa. Science of The Total Environment 663: 632-643 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.313
Robertson RM, Cease AJ, Simpson SJ. (2019) Anoxia tolerance of the adult Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 229, 81-92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.12.005
Niu D., Yuan X., Cease A.J., Wen H., Zhang C., Fu H., Elser J.J. (2018) The impact of nitrogen enrichment on grassland ecosystem stability depends on nitrogen addition level. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.318.
Medina HE, Cease AJ, and Trumper EV. (2017) The resurgence of the South American locust (Schistocerca cancellata). Metaleptea, newsletter of The Orthopterists’ Society. Vol 37, no.3.
Cullen DA, Cease AJ, Latchininsky AV, Ayali A, Berry K, Buhl J, De Keyser R, Foquet B, Hadrich JC, Matheson T, Ott SR, Poot-Pech MA, Robinson BE, Smith JM, Song H, Sword GA, Vanden Broeck J, Verdonck R, Verlinden H, Rogers, SM. (2017) From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism. Advances in Insect Physiology 53, 167-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aiip.2017.06.002.
Cease AJ, Harrison JF, Hao S, Niren DC, Zhang G, Kang L, Elser JJ (2017) Nutritional imbalance suppresses migratory phenotypes of the Mongolian locust (Oedaleus asiaticus). Royal Society Open Science. 4. doi:10.1098/rsos.161039
Cease, AJ, Fay, M, Elser, JJ & Harrison, JF (2016) Dietary phosphate affects food selection, post-ingestive phosphorus fate, and performance of a polyphagous herbivore. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219, 64-72. doi:10.1242/jeb.126847
Hao S, Wang S, Cease AJ, Kang L. (2015) Landscape level patterns of grasshopper communities in Inner Mongolia: interactive effects of livestock grazing and precipitation gradient. Landscape Ecology. 1-12. 10. 1007/ s10980-015-0247-8
Cease AJ, Elser JJ, Fenichel EF, Hadrich J, Harrison JF, Robinson BE. (2015) Living with locusts: connecting soil nitrogen, locust outbreaks, livelihoods, and livestock markets. BioScience. 65 (6) 551-558. 10.1093/biosci/biv048
Cease AJ, Capps KA, Gates KK, McCrackin ML, Nidzgorski DA. Woodstoich III: Consumer-driven nutrient dynamics in urban environments: the stoichiometry of human diets and waste management. (2015) Oikos. 127 (7) 931-948. 10.1111/oik.02391
Zhang Zijia, James J. Elser, Arianne J. Cease, Zhang X, Yu Q, Han X, Zhang G. (2014) Grasshoppers regulate N:P stoichiometric homeostasis by changing phosphorus contents in their frass. PLoS ONE, 9(8): e103697. doi:10.1371.
Dayger CA, Cease AJ, Lutterschmidt DI. (2013) Responses to Capture Stress and Exogenous Corticosterone vary with Body Condition in Female Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis Sirtalis Parietalis). Hormones and Behavior. 64, 748.
Zhao D, Zhang Zhenyu, Cease AJ, Harrison JF, Kang L. (2013) Efficient utilization of aerobic metabolism helps Tibetan locusts conquer hypoxia. BMC Genomics 14, 631. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-631
Cease AJ. (2013) Linking rangeland management with the nutritional physiology and ecology of locusts. Proceedings of the 22nd International Grassland Congress: 1619-1622
Harrison JF, Cease AJ, VandenBrooks JM, Albert T, Davidowitz G. (2013) Caterpillars selected for large body size and short development time are more susceptible to oxygen-related stress. Ecology and Evolution. 28, 18.
Cease AJ and Elser JJ. (2013) Biological Stoichiometry. Nature Education Knowledge 4(4):15
Harrison JF, Waters JS, Cease AJ, VandenBrooks JM, Callier V, Klok CJ, Shaffer K, Socha JJ. (2013) How locusts breathe. Physiology. Jan;28(1):18-27. doi: 10.1152/physiol.00043.201
Cease AJ, Elser JJ, Ford CF, Hao S, Kang L, Harrison JF. (2012) Heavy livestock grazing promotes locust outbreaks by lowering plant nitrogen content. Science 335, 467-469.
Cease AJ, Hao S, Kang L, Elser JJ, and Harrison JF. (2010) Are color or high rearing density related to migratory polyphenism in the band-winged grasshopper, Oedaleus asiaticus? Journal of Insect Physiology. 56, 926-936.
Cease AJ, Lutterschmidt DI, and Mason RT. (2007) Corticosterone and the transition from courtship behavior to dispersal in male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 150 (1), 24-131.
- 2018-2021: New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR); (PI) $300,000
- 2018-2019: USAID OFDA award “Monitoring and Soil Amendments for Locust Management: A Pilot Project in the Kaffrine Region of Senegal” (PI) $539,708
- 2018-2019: NSF RAPID “Testing macronutrient imbalance as a key factor limiting range expansion in herbivores” (lead PI; Jon Harrison is Co-PI). $120,000
- 2017-2019: USDA APHIS cooperative agreement “Grasshopper Rearing in Support of Methods Development for Rangeland Research” (PI) $82,346
- 2017-2018: IHR Research Cluster: Food and well-being in the Anthropocene (Facilitators are Joshua MacFadyen, Tyler DesRoches, and Joan MacGregor; my role: Cluster participant) $1,000
- 2013-2019: DEB-1313693 NSF CNH: Living with locusts: linking livestock markets and grazing practices with the nutritional ecology of grasses and locusts under alternative property rights regimes (lead-PI; co-PI’s are Jon Harrison, James Elser, Eli Fenichel, Brian Robinson, Joleen Hadrich) $955,000
- 2013-2017: CHE- 1313958 NSF SEES FELLOWS: Living with locusts: Training an ecophysiologist to incorporate bioeconomic modeling and collaborate with applied food security and agricultural agencies (PI) $338,921
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 326 | Sustainable Ecosystems |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 592 | Research |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 326 | Sustainable Ecosystems |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 592 | Research |
ELS 501 | Env Life Sci: Grand Challenge |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 326 | Sustainable Ecosystems |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 592 | Research |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 592 | Research |
ELS 501 | Env Life Sci: Grand Challenge |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 592 | Research |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 326 | Sustainable Ecosystems |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 394 | Special Topics |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |