Professor
Joseph Hurd Connell
(
–
)
1923
2020
University of California, Santa Barbara
;
Santa Barbara, CA
Ecologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Evolution and Ecology
Elected
2005
Helped turn ecology into a rigorous, experimental science by pioneering use of field experiments (including long-term experiments) to test mechanisms structuring ecological communities. Contributed to our understanding of biodiversity through the intermediate-disturbance hypothesis, the Janzen-Connell hypothesis, and the concept of recruitment limitations of populations and biodiversity.
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