Giulia Ghedini
The development of a new theory to account for the way nature operates must be one of the most challenging and yet rewarding scientific endevours.
Most of us build upon or improve existing theory, but few of us create a new concept.
Giulia's application to old fashioned scholarship enabled her to go back in history and trace the origins of conceptual thinking about ecosystem stability, then identify a stunning gap in thinking that has endured until today.
Congratulations Giulia!
Ghedini, G., B. D. Russell, and S. D. Connell. 2015. Trophic compensation reinforces resistance: herbivory absorbs the increasing effects of multiple disturbances. Ecology Letters 18:182-187.
Ghedini, G. and S. D. Connell. 2017. Moving ocean acidification research beyond a simple science. Food Webs.