Ann Carla Staver
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| Born | January 17, 1984 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Researcher |
| Organization | Princeton University |
Ann Carla Staver (born January 17, 1984) is an American researcher and a professor of Ecology at Princeton University.[1]
Education
Carla had her undergraduate education at Columbia University (2001-2005), where she obtained a B.A in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. She then pursued a Master of Science degree in Botany at the University of Cape Town,South Africa under William Bond, before completing her doctoral studies at Princeton University under Simon A. Levin,where she was awarded a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2012.
Research and Career
Carla is a fire ecologist whose research expertise is focused mostly in savanna ecosystems, but her work also transcends other biomes especially at the boundary between savanna and forest. She uses a combination of empirical and modeling approaches to understand how local interactions of trees with their resource and disturbance environment (usually fire and herbivory) could predict regional and global patterns in tree cover and biome distribution [2]. One of her notable works for which she is well-referenced is the concept of tropical forest and savanna bi-stability [3]. The idea that under certain climatic conditions, tropical savannas and forests could exist as alternative stable states maintained by fire-vegetation feedback. Most of her early research focused in South Africa, but in recent years her work has expanded across South America including Brazil and Bolivia, and then Central and West Africa.
Following the completion of her doctoral studies, she became a Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University before joining Yale University in 2014. She spent over a decade as a faculty member at Yale EEB before joining Princeton University in 2025. At Yale, she also had a secondary appointment at Forestry and Environmental Studies and, served as the Associate Director of Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies[4] from 2021-2023. She has authored over 80 peer-reviewed research publications and has received best paper and career achievement awards from a range of professional societies including the Ecological Society of America[5],the American Society of Naturalists[6], and the British Ecological Society. She has been an editor for the Journal of Ecology, reviewed for all the top journals in Ecology as well being on review panels for the US National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. In 2020, she testified to the US House of Representatives Natural Resource Committee.[7]
Notable Awards and Honor
- 2012 George Mercer Award, Ecological Society of America
- 2013 Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Award,American Society of Naturalists
- 2015-2020 Early Career Fellow,
- 2017 Tansley Medal shortlist, New Phytologist Trust
References
- ↑ "Carla Staver | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology".
- ↑ https://staver.lab.princeton.edu/
- ↑ Staver, A. Carla; Archibald, Sally; Levin, Simon A. (2011). "The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States". Science. 334 (6053): 230–232. Bibcode:2011Sci...334..230S. doi:10.1126/science.1210465. PMID 21998389.
- ↑ "Fighting Fire with Fire — Literally". 18 May 2022.
- ↑ https://esa.org/history/mercer-award/#tablepress-3_wrapper
- ↑ https://www.amnat.org/awards.html American Society of Naturalists
- ↑ https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110542/witnesses/HHRG-116-II00-Wstate-StaverC-20200226.pdf
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