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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
- On Campus & in the Field
- Special Centers & Facilities:
- 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.
Monica Bibiana Berdugo Moreno
mbberdug@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Dovciak and Kimmerer,r
- Area of Study: Ecology
- Undergraduate Institute: Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Biology)
- Previous Graduate Study: Universidad del Pais Vasco (Environmental Science)
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
Undergraduate Institute
Ithaca College
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 vegetation distributions along elevation gradients in the Northern Forest (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York).
Home Page
Web Link
Research Interests
Plant Ecology, Forest Ecosystems, Global Change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Management & Restoration.
Selected Publications (Top 10)
(Full publication list is here)
- Wiezik M, Svitok M, Wiezikova A, Dovciak M. 2013. Shrub encroachment alters composition and diversity of ant communities in abandoned grasslands of western Carpathians. Biodiversity and Conservation. DOI 10.1007/s10531-013-0446-z.
- Frelich LE, Peterson RO, Dovciak M, Reich PB, Vucetich JA, Eisenhauer N. 2012. Trophic cascades, invasive species, and body-size hierarchies interactively modulate climate change responses of ecotonal temperate-boreal forest. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 367: 2955-2961. PDF.
- Halpern CB, Halaj J, Evans SA, Dovciak M. 2012. Level and pattern of overstory retention interact to shape long-term responses of understories to timber harvest. Ecological Applications. 22, 2049–2064. PDF.
- Beier CM, Stella JA, Dovciak M, McNulty SA. 2012. Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America. Climatic Change 115: 399-417. PDF
- 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
- 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
- Dovciak M, Reich PB, Frelich LE. 2003. Seed rain, safe sites, competing vegetation, and soil resources spatially structure white pine regeneration and recruitment. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33: 1892–1904. PDF
- Dovciak M, Frelich LE., Reich PB. 2001. Discordance in spatial patterns of white pine (Pinus strobus) size-classes in a patchy near-boreal forest. Journal of Ecology 89: 280-291. PDF
Courses Taught
- Plant Ecology & Global Change
- Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution & Systematics
- Global Change Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Foundations of Ecology
