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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1963 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America
  • 1962 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Joseph H. Connell was an academic affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily contributed to the field of Environmental Science, with specific focus areas including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

The scientist's work spanned several main topics, notably Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies.

Among their recent publications were two notable papers. The first, published in 2022, was titled Coral community data Heron Island Great Barrier Reef 1962-2016, appearing in the journal Scientific Data. The second, from 2020, was titled Optimal Operating Conditions for Capillary Breakup Rheometry Based on Half-times of Liquid Bridges, published in the Proceedings of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference/Proceedings - Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference.

Joseph H. Connell collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Jason E. Tanner
  • Carlos H. Crisosto
  • Sebastian Saa Silva
  • Murray Rudman
  • Ranganathan Prabhakar

Their frequent publication venues reflected their interdisciplinary work, with appearances in:

  • Scientific Data
  • Proceedings of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference/Proceedings - Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference

Throughout their career, Joseph H. Connell received recognition through several awards, including being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation twice, once in 1962 and again in 1971. They were also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965 and received the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1963.

Best Publications

  • Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs.

    Joseph H. Connell

  • MECHANISMS OF SUCCESSION IN NATURAL COMMUNITIES AND THEIR ROLE IN COMMUNITY STABILITY AND ORGANIZATION

    Joseph H. Connell;Ralph O. Slatyer

  • ON THE PREVALENCE AND RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION: EVIDENCE FROM FIELD EXPERIMENTS

    Joseph H. Connell

  • The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus Stellatus

    Joseph H. Connell

  • On the Evidence Needed to Judge Ecological Stability or Persistence

    Joseph H. Connell;Wayne P. Sousa

  • Diversity and the coevolution of competitors, or the ghost of competition past

    Unknown

  • Effects of Competition, Predation by Thais lapillus, and Other Factors on Natural Populations of the Barnacle Balanus balanoides

    Joseph H. Connell

  • The consequences of variation in initial settlement vs. post-settlement mortality in rocky intertidal communities

    Joseph H. Connell

  • A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment, and disturbance at several scales in space and time

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace

  • Community Interactions on Marine Rocky Intertidal Shores

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  • Multiple stressors on coral reefs: a long-term perspective

    T. P. Hughes;J. H. Connell

  • The Ecological Regulation of Species Diversity

    Joseph H. Connell;Eduardo Orias

  • A Predator-Prey System in the Marine Intertidal Region. I. Balanus glandula and Several Predatory Species of Thais

    Joseph H. Connell

  • Compensatory Recruitment, Growth, and Mortality as Factors Maintaining Rain Forest Tree Diversity

    Joseph H. Connell;J. G. Tracey;Leonard J. Webb

  • Low-Diversity Tropical Rain Forests: Some Possible Mechanisms for Their Existence

    Joseph H. Connell;Margaret D. Lowman

  • Disturbance and patch dynamics of subtidal marine animals on hard substrata

    Joseph H. Connell;Michael J. Keough

  • The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

    Drew Harvell;Richard Aronson;Nancy Baron;Joseph Connell

  • 7. – POPULATION ECOLOGY OF REEF-BUILDING CORALS

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  • NATURAL DISTURBANCES AND DIRECTIONAL REPLACEMENT OF SPECIES

    William J. Platt;Joseph H. Connell

  • A LONG-TERM STUDY OF COMPETITION AND DIVERSITY OF CORALS

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace;Jason E. Tanner

  • SEEDLING DYNAMICS OVER THIRTY-TWO YEARS IN A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREE

    Joseph H. Connell;Joseph H. Connell;Peter T. Green;Peter T. Green

  • Marine invertebrates in an algal succession. III. Mechanisms linking habitat complexity with diversity

    Richard L. Dean;Joseph H. Connell

  • Species coexistence, keystone species, and succession: a sensitivity analysis

    Jason E. Tanner;Terence P. Hughes;Joseph H. Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University
Carden C. Wallace
Carden C. Wallace Queensland Museum
Terry P. Hughes
Terry P. Hughes James Cook University
Catherine A. Gehring
Catherine A. Gehring Northern Arizona University
Kevin D. Lafferty
Kevin D. Lafferty United States Geological Survey
Leah Gerber
Leah Gerber Duke University
David J. Ayre
David J. Ayre University of Wollongong
Ian R. Noble
Ian R. Noble Australian National University
James W. Porter
James W. Porter University of Georgia
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University

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