Caroline E. Farrior Post-doctoral researcher Princeton Environmental Institute 106a Guyot Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 Office: M26 Guyot Hall Tel: 918-853-1401 Email: cfarrior@princeton.edu CV Photos

Plant communities are complex systems shaped by numerous processes acting over different spatial and temporal scales.  Because plants are a major component of the global carbon cycle, these processes have the potential to significantly buffer or accelerate the pace of climate change.  In my attempts to understand how plant communities work, I have taken the approach of multiple approaches.  I build simple tractable models whose results I can understand.  I accompany these models with more realistic but more complicated simulation models to validate that understanding and make quantitative predictions.  Most importantly, I compare model predictions with empirical studies as often as possible. I am currently a post-doc with Stephen Pacala at Princeton University in the Princeton Environmental Institute.   Publications Farrior, C., D Tilman, R Dybzinski, PB Reich, and SW Pacala, In Press.  Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions. Ecology.  preprint Farrior, CE, R Dybzinski, SA Levin, and SW Pacala. 2013.  Competition for water and light in closed-canopy forests: a tractable model of carbon allocation with implications for carbon sinks.  The American Naturalist 181(3): 314-330. pdf supplementary material F1000 recommendation   Dybzinski, R, CE Farrior, A Wolf, PB Reich, and SW Pacala. 2011.  Evolutionarily stable strategy carbon allocation to foliage, wood, and fine roots in trees competing for light and nitrogen: An analytically tractable, individual-based model and quantitative comparisons to data.  The American Naturalist 177(2):153-166.  pdf supplementary material Updated May 13, 2013