Com­pet­i­tive games among plants and their impli­ca­tions for the global car­bon cycle

Car­o­line Far­rior is a Post­doc­toral Fel­low at the National Insti­tute for Math­e­mat­i­cal and Bio­log­i­cal Syn­the­sis (NIM­BioS) located at the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee, Knoxville. Car­o­line is a plant ecol­o­gist who stud­ies how com­pe­ti­tion among plants and their access to resources shape the dom­i­nant plant strate­gies that drive landscape-level pat­terns such as for­est struc­ture, com­mu­nity com­po­si­tion, and car­bon stor­age. She does both the­o­ret­i­cal and empir­i­cal work to develop under­stand­ing of mech­a­nisms needed to decrease the uncer­tainty in the ter­res­trial com­po­nent of earth sys­tem mod­els. At ORNL Car­o­line col­lab­o­rates with Rich Norby and mem­bers of his group.

Car­o­line received her Ph.D. in Ecol­ogy and Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­ogy in 2012 from Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity where Simon Levin and Steve Pacala were her co-advisors. Car­o­line worked with the Pacala group for another two years as a post­doc at the Prince­ton Envi­ron­men­tal Insti­tute before mov­ing to Tennessee.