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Vitousek, Peter |
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Stanford University |
| Primary Field
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Environmental Sciences and Ecology |
| Secondary Field
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Evolutionary Biology |
 Election Citation
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Vitousek has contributed substantially to the development of ecosystem ecology through theory, experiment, and synthesis and has pioneered a union of ecosystem and population perspectives. He demonstrated that invading species can alter entire ecosystem, that tropical deforestation can substantially increase atmospheric N2O, and uncovered the mechanism of both. |
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Research Interests
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My research interests are terrestrial ecosystems: structure, function, and regulation; biological invasions and ecosystem consequences; the global nitrogen cycle; and the ecology of Pacific islands, especially Hawaii. |
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