Adam Clark

Adam Clark

@adamtclark.bsky.social

Associate Professor at University of Graz in Austria. Used as a work account for discussing my research & related topics. 🐘 @adam_t_clark@ecoevo.social.

1,054 Followers 734 Following 15 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence Coexistence is simultaneously one of the most fundamental concepts of ecology, and one of the most difficult to define. A particular challenge is that, despite a well-developed body of research, seve...

Want to learn more? See our recent review in #BiologicalReviews, where some of the leading experts from each of these sub-fields has helped assemble a practical guide for characterizing coexistence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence Coexistence is simultaneously one of the most fundamental concepts of ecology, and one of the most difficult to define. A particular challenge is that, despite a well-developed body of research, seve...

How can we identify #coexistence in #ecology? There are at least three common approaches (structural stability, eigenvalues, and invasion), and each investigates different aspects of community dynamics (equilibria, locally stable equilibria, and global stability). 1/2

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8 months ago
Universität Graz

Note: applicants must commit to be able to teach in German within a year of starting the appointment (our teaching obligations include courses for pedagogy students training to be high school teachers, which must be held in German). Application deadline is 17 September. (2/2).

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Universität Graz

My department (Biology, at Uni Graz in Austria) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof. in Soil Biology. A broad range of backgrounds are welcome, ranging from ecology to biogeochemistry. For more details, see: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/633d... (1/2)

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Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion - Nature Analysis of policies for promotion criteria to full professor from academic institutions and government agencies worldwide reveals considerable variation in assessment practices, particularly between ...

Neat new study on the criteria used to hire/promote faculty: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lots of differences among countries. E.g. a stronger emphasis on publications in richer places, and more emphasis on other things (e.g. local and public engagement) in lower income regions.

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Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands - Landscape Ecology Context Historical land use is thought to have influenced plant community diversity, composition and function through the local persistence of taxa that reflect ecological conditions of the past. Obje...

👉 Want all the details? Read the full article here:
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#Ecology 🌿 #Grasslands 🌾 #HistoricalLandUse 📜 #PlantCommunities 🌱 #LandscapeEcology 🌍 #EnvironmentalResearch 🔬 #Biodiversity 🌸 #HistoricalEcology 🕰️
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1 year ago

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

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2 years ago

2024 Climate Postdoc Fellowship at UniGraz is now open! Funds 3-month research visits for candidates who completed their PhD within the last 6 years, focusing on interdisciplinary issues related to climate change. See posting here: climate-change.uni-graz.at/en/news/clim...

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Conceptual figure of drivers during ecological succession

Feedback loops during ecological succession - our conceptual review wonderfully led by Michiel van Breugel and colleagues from our #sDiv workshop (sUCCESS):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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An informative article about the career, contributions, and ongoing saga of award-winning ecologist, Priyanga Amarasekare!

Nice write-up from Andy Dobson and Ottar Bjornstad.

doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

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2 years ago

Our job posting is now live! Interested in grassland plants, conservation, and landscape ecology? Consider applying for a fully funded PhD position at Uni Graz in Austria.

Details here:
dropbox.com/scl/fi/wtzab...

Please share with any potentially interested applicants you know!

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Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo ... Landscape reconstruction using pollen data shows that European temperate forests were open and heterogeneous before modern humans.

"Europe was not as forested as previously thought when our species arrived to the continent" This is the motto of the research P. González Sampériz from PaleoIPE twitter.com/PaleoIPE contributed to in this magnifcient work led by Elena Pearce (twitter.com/elena_pearce) science.org/doi/full/10....

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2 years ago

😂 I should be so lucky!

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The project includes opportunities to collaborate with world-class teams in Vienna, Prague, and Brno. I also promise to do my best to help you pursue your research, career, and life goals, and to be a kind and supportive supervisor. 6/6

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Salary follows standard FWF scale at ~€2.500/month, paid 14x per year, with annual adjustments for inflation. Graz is a wonderful city to live and work in, with good food, lots of nice hiking, and low cost of living (~e.g. €550-600/month rental prices). 5/n

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... and (depending on interests) could also include a significant amount of theory and modelling, e.g. tracking changes in community composition and stability across space and time. Feel free to contact me (adam.clark@uni-graz.at) with any questions! 4/n

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2 years ago

I especially encourage applicants with experience in vegetation ecology and/or taxonomy of Central European grassland plants, though any experience in botanical field surveys is a bug plus. The project also includes GIS analyses of landscape change... 3/n

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2 years ago

Starting date is around March 1st 2024 (though somewhat flexible). The position is fully funded for 3 years (without teaching obligations), with the possibility of a ~1-year extension. 2/n

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2 years ago

Quick update: in the next few weeks, I'll be opening a call for a PhD student at Uni Graz, as part of a project on vegetation dynamics and landscape change along the Czech/Austrian border, in collaboration with P. Keil at CZU, Prague, F. Essl at Uni Vienna, and H. Skokanová at VUKOZ in Brno. 1/n

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2 years ago

We are also hiring in Machine Learning in Biology! (also Nov 6 deadline).

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2 years ago

10 days left to apply (Nov 6) for our search at Penn Biology for an Ecologist! Open to any area of Ecology. Link below.

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Applied disturbance treatments for our Alpine DragNET site with colleagues from HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. Can confirm that this is much better than trying to do it with a rototiller.

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Eric Pederson (Concordia University) will present a talk on: " How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics".

Abstract:  The metapopulation framework is a cornerstone tool for modelling spatially structured populations. A Metapopulation is defined as a set of subpopulations living in well-mixed patches, connected by inter-patch movement. However, there is currently no clear single definition of what constitutes a “patch” of habitat in fragmented and heterogeneous landscape. In this talk, I argue that we should define patches based on synchronization of population dynamics driven by local interactions between individuals. Further, when interaction is driven by individual patterns of movement and individual movement follows a Markov random walk, I show that it is possible to derive a measure of lifetime encounter probabilities between individuals inhabiting the landscape. This can be used to define a consistent

IITE talk tomorrow: 9am California, Noon New York,  5pm London, 6pm Paris

Eric Pederson (Concordia University): "How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics".

Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287

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