Dr. Aide has had a long trajectory of work in tropical ecology and conservation, including a diversity of academic contributions, and international distinction as a teacher and an academic mentor.

He has a record of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Conservation Biology. While he is most recognized for his studies of how socioeconomic changes shape land use and biodiversity, he has also worked on various topics from plant-animal interactions to restoration ecology. 

Most recently, he has pioneered interdisciplinary collaborations with computer scientists to develop machine-learning algorithms for automating species identification for acoustic monitoring of biodiversity. Dr. Aide has advised over 35 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, including 18 M.S. and 11 Ph.D. students. His mentees hail from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Haiti, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the mainland United States. These contributions resulted in being named an Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation Honorary Fellow in 2022.