Vadim Karatayev

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Vadim Karatayev

Biology Assistant Professor
vadimk@umd.edu 1204 Biology-Psychology Bldg.

Graduate Program Affiliations


Research Interests

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 Papers

Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long‐Term Data

| Ecology Letters
Author(s): Daniel C. Reuman, Jonathan A. Walter, Lawrence W. Sheppard, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Climate change could amplify weak synchrony in large marine ecosystems

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Author(s): Vadim A. Karatayev, Stephan B. Munch, Tanya L. Rogers, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases

| Theoretical Ecology
Author(s): Kathyrn R. Fair, Vadim A. Karatayev, Madhur Anand, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Insights into spatial synchrony enabled by long-term data


Author(s): Daniel Reuman, Jonathan Walter, Lawrence Sheppard, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up food webs via resource subsidies

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Author(s): Jonathan A. Walter, Kyle A. Emery, Jenifer E. Dugan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


The Potential for Alternative Stable States in Food Webs Depends on Feedback Mechanism and Trait Diversity

| The American Naturalist
Author(s): Vadim A. Karatayev, Marissa L. Baskett, Egbert H. van Nes
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Time Scales of Ecosystem Impacts and Recovery Under Individual and Serial Invasions

| Ecosystems
Author(s): Vadim A. Karatayev, Lars G. Rudstam, Alexander Y. Karatayev, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


An abundant future for quagga mussels in deep European lakes


Author(s): Benjamin M. Kraemer, Salomé Boudet, Lyubov E. Burlakova, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev


Acclimating to degraded environments: The social rationale for swift action on restoration


Author(s): Vadim A. Karatayev, Robyn S. Wilson, D.G. Webster, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vadim Karatayev