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Ian T. Carroll
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 11
Citations - 1975
Ian T. Carroll is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coexistence theory & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications receiving 1730 citations. Previous affiliations of Ian T. Carroll include Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
Bradley J. Cardinale,Justin P. Wright,Marc W. Cadotte,Ian T. Carroll,Andy Hector,Diane S. Srivastava,Michel Loreau,Jerome J. Weis +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that although productive species do indeed contribute to diversity effects, these contributions are equaled or exceeded by species complementarity, where biomass is augmented by biological processes that involve multiple species.
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Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable?
Daniel F. Doak,James A. Estes,Benjamin S. Halpern,Ute Jacob,David R. Lindberg,James R. Lovvorn,Daniel H. Monson,M. Timothy Tinker,Terrie M. Williams,J. Timothy Wootton,Ian T. Carroll,Mark C. Emmerson,Fiorenza Micheli,Mark Novak +13 more
TL;DR: Examples of such surprises are given along with the results of a survey of well-established field ecologists, most of whom have encountered one or more surprises over the course of their careers, and the frequency and nature of ecological surprises imply that uncertainty cannot be easily tamed through improved analytical procedures.
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Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function
TL;DR: It is concluded that past inferences about the cause of observed diversity- function relationships may be unreliable, and that new empirical estimates of niche and relative fitness differences are necessary to uncover the ecological mechanisms responsible for diversity-function relationships.
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Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae
TL;DR: It is found that niche differences were more important in explaining coexistence than relative fitness differences, and that phylogenetic distance had no effect on either coexistence or on the sizes of niche and fitness differences.
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A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves
Meghan L. Avolio,Ian T. Carroll,Scott L. Collins,Gregory R. Houseman,Lauren M. Hallett,Forest Isbell,Sally E. Koerner,Kimberly J. Komatsu,Melinda D. Smith,Kevin R. Wilcox,Kevin R. Wilcox +10 more
TL;DR: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.