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Carol C. Horvitz is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Soil Science.

Horvitz's work covers several main topics including Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Agricultural risk and resilience, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Plant and animal studies, Health and Conflict Studies, and Botany and Geology in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Horvitz include the following:

  • Skewed distributions of lifetime reproductive success: beyond mean and variance, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Distributions of LRS in varying environments, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Strawberry guava invasion of a Hawaiian rainforest: Changing population patterns, 2024, Biotropica
  • Seedling maturation drives spatial variability in demographic dynamics of an invader with multiple introductions: insights from an LTRE analysis, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Distributions of LRS in varying environments, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Biotropica
  • Biological Invasions
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in their recent work include Shripad Tuljapurkar, Wenyun Zuo, Tim Coulson, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Julie S. Denslow.

Best Publications

  • LONGEVITY CAN BUFFER PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS AGAINST CHANGING CLIMATIC VARIABILITY

    William F. Morris;Catherine A. Pfister;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Chirrakal V. Haridas

  • Variation among floral visitors in pollination ability: a precondition for mutualism specialization.

    Douglas W. Schemske;Carol C. Horvitz

  • Spatiotemporal Variation in Demographic Transitions of a Tropical Understory Herb: Projection Matrix Analysis

    Carol C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

  • The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions: Implications for species richness and management

    Jane A. Catford;Curtis C. Daehler;Helen T. Murphy;Andy W. Sheppard

  • The Relative 'Importance' of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses

    Carol Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske;Hal Caswell

  • The many growth rates and elasticities of populations in random environments.

    Shripad Tuljapurkar;Carol C. Horvitz;John B. Pascarella

  • Spatiotemporal Variation in Insect Mutualists of a Neotropical Herb

    Carol C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

  • PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS AND FRUIT PRODUCTION IN A NEOTROPICAL HERB: A PATH ANALYSIS'

    Douglas W. Schemske;Carol C. Horvitz

  • TEMPORAL VARIATION IN SELECTION ON A FLORAL CHARACTER.

    Douglas W. Schemske;Carol C. Horvitz

  • FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF INVASIVE NON-INDIGENOUS PLANTS IN HURRICANE-AFFECTED SUBTROPICAL HARDWOOD FORESTS

    Carol C. Horvitz;John B. Pascarella;Stephen McMann;Andrea Freedman

  • EFFECTS OF ANTS AND AN ANT-TENDED HERBIVORE ON SEED PRODUCTION OF A NEOTROPICAL HERB

    C. C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

  • POLLINATOR LIMITATION, COST OF REPRODUCTION, AND FITNESS IN PLANTS: A TRANSITION-MATRIX DEMOGRAPHIC APPROACH

    Ricardo N. Calvo;Carol C. Horvitz

  • Seed arrival under different genera of trees in a neotropical pasture

    Matthew G. Slocum;Carol C. Horvitz

  • In a long-term experimental demography study, excluding ungulates reversed invader's explosive population growth rate and restored natives

    Susan Kalisz;Rachel B. Spigler;Carol C. Horvitz

  • HURRICANE DISTURBANCE AND THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A TROPICAL UNDERSTORY SHRUB: MEGAMATRIX ELASTICITY ANALYSIS

    John B. Pascarella;Carol C. Horvitz

  • ANT DISPERSAL OF CALATHEA (MARANTACEAE) SEEDS BY CARNIVOROUS PONERINES (FORMICIDAE) IN A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

    C. C. Horvitz;A. J. Beattie

  • Seed dispersal and environmental heterogeneity in a neotropical herb: a model of population and patch dynamics

    Carol C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Demographic Cost of Reproduction in a Neotropical Herb: An Experimental Field Study

    Carol C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Invasive plants in wildland ecosystems: merging the study of invasion processes with management needs

    Carla M. D'Antonio;Nelroy E. Jackson;Carol C. Horvitz;Rob Hedberg

  • Effects of Dispersers, Gaps, and Predators on Dormancy and Seedling Emergence in a Tropical Herb

    Carol C. Horvitz;Douglas W. Schemske

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
William F. Morris
William F. Morris Duke University
Catherine A. Pfister
Catherine A. Pfister University of Chicago
Eric S. Menges
Eric S. Menges Archbold Biological Station
Susan Kalisz
Susan Kalisz University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Tamara Ticktin
Tamara Ticktin University of Hawaii at Manoa
C. Jessica E. Metcalf
C. Jessica E. Metcalf Princeton University

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