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- Introduction to Graduate Study in EFB
- Current Graduate Students
- Programs of Study:
- · Applied Ecology
- · Chemical Ecology
- · Conservation Biology
- · Ecology
- · Entomology
- · Environmental Interpretation
- · Environmental Physiology
- · Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management
- · Forest Pathology and Mycology
- · Plant Biotechnology
- · Plant Science and Biotechnology
- Facilities & Research ▼
- A New Home for EFB
- Adirondack Ecological Center
- American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project
- Applied Microbiology, SUNY Center for
- Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
- Cranberry Lake Biological Station
- Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
- Quantitative Studies Laboratory
- Roosevelt Wild Life Station
- Salix Consortium
- Thousand Islands Biological Station
- Animal Care at ESF
Martin Dovciak
Assistant Professor
459 Illick Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210
Phone: (315) 470-6749/470-6743
Email: mdovciak@esf.edu
Web: Dovciak Lab Homepage
Highest Education
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2001
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
Illustrated Flora of Paramos
Web Link
Stephen Langdon
sflangdo@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak
- Area of Study: Ecology
- Undergraduate Institute: Plattsburgh State University (Ecology)
Juliana Quant
jmquant@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak and Leopold
- Area of Study: Conservation Biology
Graduate Research Topic
Forest communities along soil, acid deposition, and climate gradients of the Appalachian Trail
Home Page
http://www.esf.edu/efb/grad/Quant.htm
Jay Wason
jwwasoni@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak
- Area of Study: Ecology
- Undergraduate Institute: University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Research Topic
Climatic controls of the northern-hardwood to boreal forest ecotone in the Adirondack Mountains of New York
Home Page
Web Link
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
