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E. Carol Adair
Postdoctoral Associate
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California
735 State Street, Suite 300                                                                                                                           
Email: adair(at)nceas(dot)ucsb(dot)edu
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-5504                                                                                                                                                    
Phone: 805-892-2520 Fax: 805-892-2510

CV
NEWS
  • I will be joining the faculty of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, December 2011.
  • New paper on forest diversity in Journal of Ecology.
  • New paper on why elevated CO2 increases soil respiration in Global Change Biology.
  • Adair et al. 2008 paper on modeling global long-term decomposition ranked by Global Change Biology as one of the 25 most cited since 2008.
  • New paper in Plant and Soil on the phenological and biogeochemical effects of cheatgrass invasion.
  • New paper on the perils of using the single pool model in ecological studies in Ecology.
  • I have added a page with links to excel file templates that allow anyone to calculate climate decompostion indices (CDI) for sites with monthly temperature and precipitation data.
RESEARCH INTERESTS

As a quantitative biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist, I strive to understand how multiple vectors of global change interact to alter ecosystem processes (like decomposition) and how these alterations feed back to impact global change factors.

I combine synthetic (e.g., using large data sets and model selection techniques) and experimental methods to address this complex question, with a focus on identifying the mechanisms underlying ecosystem processes.




















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