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Adam Clark

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

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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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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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...
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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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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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 ...
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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
👉 Want all the details? Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1007/s109... #Ecology 🌿 #Grasslands 🌾 #HistoricalLandUse 📜 #PlantCommunities 🌱 #LandscapeEcology 🌍 #EnvironmentalResearch 🔬 #Biodiversity 🌸 #HistoricalEcology 🕰️ @adamtclark.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social
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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...
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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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NSF Award Search: Award # 2340606 - CAREER: Quantifying how and when global change alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning Lock
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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
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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Dylan Craven Moore @dylancraven.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
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/...
Conceptual figure of drivers during ecological succession
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Jonathan Chase @jon-chase03.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
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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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
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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Graciela Gil-Romera @gilromera.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
"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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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.
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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
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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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 27/10/2023
We are also hiring in Machine Learning in Biology! (also Nov 6 deadline).
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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 27/10/2023
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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Adam Clark @adamtclark.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
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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Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
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
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
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