A Celebration and Exploration of Joseph H. Connell's Conceptual and Empirical Influence, Inspiration, and Legacy in Ecological Research and Education

摘要

Margaret D. Lowman,* New College of Florida – Tropical conservation and education outreach, as influencedby Connell’s legacy. Our symposium honored ESA Eminent Ecologist (awarded in 1985) Joseph H.Connell, University of California, Santa Barbara (Professor Emeritus). Connell helped usher in a new era in ecological research with the experiments hepublished nearly 50 years ago in the ESA journalsEcology and Ecological Monographs (Connell1961a,b). In those ISI Science Citation Classics(see essays in Connell 1981, 1992) Connelldemonstrated the context-dependent roles ofenvironmental factors, competition, and predationas mechanisms structuring communities.Throughout his career, Connell has soughtsynthetic mechanistic explanations for ecologicalphenomena, while establishing and maintainingthe world’s longest regularly censused, individual-based field observations of coral (e.g., Connell etal. 1997, 2004) and tree (e.g., Connell et al. 1984,Connell and Green 2000) communities. As BillMurdoch put it during his Symposium talk: “Joehad the data!”