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| Name | Howard V. Cornell |
| Title | Professor, Chair |
| Office | 1027 Wickson Hall |
| Office Location | Open Floor Plan |
| Phone | (530) 754-7249 |
| Fax | (530) 752-3350 |
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| Website | Web link |
| CV | Click to open CV |
| Education | Ph.D. 1975 Cornell University, Ithica NY / B.A., 1969 Tufts University, Medford, MA |
| Areas of Interest | I have worked in several systems and on a variety of problems over the years. My motivation has been to search for the underlying principles that drive the functioning of ecological systems and my interests have not been confined to any specific habitat or group of organisms. Over the past several years, I have been investigating the effects of processes operating at different spatial scales on the number of species occupying local habitats. My most important discovery is that regional scale processes play profound role in shaping the structure of local species assemblages. This encourages me to think that appropriate explanations for differentially diverse communities must include biogeographic and evolutionary processes occurring over broad geographic areas as well as interactions within habitats. My working philosophy has been consistent with this proposition, and together with international and domestic collaborators, I have been exploring theoretical implications and the generali |
| Recent Publications | Cornell, H. V. and R. H. Karlson. 2000. Coral species richness:
ecological vs. biogeographic influences. Coral Reefs 19:37-49.
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| | Cornell, H. V. and B. A. Hawkins. 2003. Herbivore responses to plant secondary compounds: a test of phytochemical coevolution theory. American Naturalist 161: 507-522.
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| | Karlson, R. H., H. V. Cornell, and T. P. Hughes. 2004. Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature
429: 867-870.
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