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Martin Dovciak
Assistant Professor

Office: 459 Illick Hall
Email: mdovciak@esf.edu
Phone: (315) 470-6749
Web: Dovciak Lab Homepage

Highest Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2001

Research Interests

Plant Ecology, Forest Ecology, Biodiversity, Global Change Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Ecosystem Management & Restoration.

Selected Publications

(Full publication list is here)

Alvarez-Yepiz J.C., Dovciak M., Burquez A. 2011. Persistence of a rare ancient cycad: effects of environment and demography. Biological Conservation 144, 122-130. PDF
Dovciak M., Halpern C.B. 2010. Positive diversity-stability relationships in forest herb populations during four decades of community assembly. Ecology Letters 13, 1300-1309. PDF
Dovciak M., Hrivnak R., Ujhazy K., Gomory D. 2008. Seed rain and environmental controls on invasion of Picea abies into grassland. Plant Ecology 194, 135-148. PDF
Wiezik M., Svitok M., Dovciak M. 2007. Conifer introductions decrease richness and alter composition of litter-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) in Carpathian oak forests. Forest Ecology & Management 247, 61-71. PDF
Dovciak M., Frelich L.E. Reich P.B. 2005. Pathways in old-field succession to white pine: seed rain, shade, and climate effects. Ecological Monographs 75, 363–378. PDF

Courses Taught

Plant Ecology & Global Change ; Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution & Systematics; Landscape Ecology; Foundations of Ecology; Natural Resource Management

Current Graduate Advisees

Juan Carlos Alvarez Yepiz
jualvare@syr.edu

Degree Sought: PHD
Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak
Area of Study: Ecology

Graduate Research Topic
“Mechanisms of persistence and coexistence of the rare cycad Dioon sonorense in Mexico”

Home Page
https://sites.google.com/site/jualvare10/

Sample publication
Álvarez-Yépiz, J.C., Dovčiak, M., and Búrquez, A. 2011. Persistence of a rare ancient cycad: effects of environment and demography. Biological Conservation 144:122-130.

Keith Cardinali
kwcardin@syr.edu

Degree Sought: MPS
Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak
Area of Study: Ecology
Undergraduate Institute: SUNY College Oswego

Graduate Research Topic
Wetlands Ecology

Favorite Quote
“Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps” - Henry David Thoreau

Maria Elena Gutierrez Lagoueyte
megutier@syr.edu

Degree Sought: MS
Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak
Area of Study: Conservation Biology

Graduate Research Topic
Effects of changing climatic conditions on paramos, the tropical high mountain ecosystems of Colombia

Sample publication
Ruiz D., Moreno H.A., Gutiérrez M.E., Zapata P.A. 2008. Changing climate and endangered high mountain ecosystems in Colombia. Science of the Total Environment 398, 122-132

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