Welcome to the Carson Lab Webpage!
Welcome to the Carson Lab Webpage!
Walter Carson on the Gigante Peninsula, Panama
Walter Carson’s lab focuses on experimental and empirical tests of theory in community ecology, specifically theories that hone in on the mechanisms generating community composition, coexistence, complexity, and the maintenance of species diversity.
Walter Carson’s lab focuses on experimental and empirical tests of theory in community ecology, specifically theories that hone in on the mechanisms generating community composition, coexistence, complexity, and the maintenance of species diversity.
“Unfortunately for ecology, the theoretical hare hit the ground running long before the experimental tortoise emerged from the starting gate.”
“Unfortunately for ecology, the theoretical hare hit the ground running long before the experimental tortoise emerged from the starting gate.”
-Dennis Chitty
-Dennis Chitty
“Politeness is the poison of all good collaboration in science.”
“Politeness is the poison of all good collaboration in science.”
-Francis Crick
-Francis Crick