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Dr. Vadim Karatayev
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Vadim Karatayev
William J. Higgins Assistant Professor of Biology

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I combine theory and large-scale field data to understand conditions that erode or reinforce resilience in complex ecosystems. In the process, I explore fundamental questions at the interface of community ecology, landscape ecology, and network dynamics.

Latest Publications via PubMed

Reuman DC,Walter JA,Sheppard LW,Karatayev VA,Kadiyala ES,Lohmann AC,Anderson TL,Coombs NJ,Haynes KJ,Hallett LM,Castorani MCN
Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long-Term Data.
Ecol Lett. 2025 Apr;28(4):e70112. doi: 10.1111/ele.70112. Epub
Karatayev VA,Munch SB,Rogers TL,Reuman DC
Climate change could amplify weak synchrony in large marine ecosystems.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jan 7;122(1):e2404155121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2404155121. Epub 2024 Dec 30
Karatayev AY,Burlakova LE,Karatayev VA,Cooper JE,Rudstam LG
Multiple invasions decimate the most imperiled freshwater invertebrates.
Biol Invasions. 2025;27(2):85. doi: 10.1007/s10530-025-03540-5. Epub 2025 Feb 13
Walter JA,Emery KA,Dugan JE,Hubbard DM,Bell TW,Sheppard LW,Karatayev VA,Cavanaugh KC,Reuman DC,Castorani MCN
Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up food webs via resource subsidies.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Jan 9;121(2):e2310052120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2310052120. Epub 2024 Jan 2
Karatayev VA,Baskett ML,van Nes EH
The Potential for Alternative Stable States in Food Webs Depends on Feedback Mechanism and Trait Diversity.
Am Nat. 2023 Sep;202(3):260-275. doi: 10.1086/725421. Epub 2023 Jul 26
Fair KR,Karatayev VA,Anand M,Bauch CT
Estimating COVID-19 cases and deaths prevented by non-pharmaceutical interventions, and the impact of individual actions: A retrospective model-based analysis.
Epidemics. 2022 Jun;39:100557. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100557. Epub 2022 Apr 6
Karatayev VA,Baskett ML,Kushner DJ,Shears NT,Caselle JE,Boettiger C
Grazer behaviour can regulate large-scale patterning of community states.
Ecol Lett. 2021 Sep;24(9):1917-1929. doi: 10.1111/ele.13828. Epub 2021 Jul 4
Karatayev VA,Vasconcelos VV,Lafuite AS,Levin SA,Bauch CT,Anand M
A well-timed shift from local to global agreements accelerates climate change mitigation.
Nat Commun. 2021 May 18;12(1):2908. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23056-5. Epub 2021 May 18
Karatayev VA,Anand M,Bauch CT
Local lockdowns outperform global lockdown on the far side of the COVID-19 epidemic curve.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Sep 29;117(39):24575-24580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014385117. Epub 2020 Sep 4
Karatayev VA,Burlakova LE,Karatayev AY,Yang L,Miller T
Advection exacerbates population decline from habitat loss: maintaining threatened taxa while restoring natural river flow regimes.
Oecologia. 2020 Jul;193(3):773-785. doi: 10.1007/s00442-020-04706-9. Epub 2020 Jul 25
Karatayev VA,Baskett ML
At what spatial scales are alternative stable states relevant in highly interconnected ecosystems?
Ecology. 2020 Feb;101(2):e02930. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2930. Epub 2019 Dec 17