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Dan Doak

Dan Doak

· Professor • Byers Family Chair in Environmental Studies

University of Colorado Boulder · Environmental Studies

Active 1987–2026

h-index64
Citations20.7k
Papers19830 last 5y
Funding$1.8M

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Dan Doak is a Professor and the Byers Family Chair in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on the ecology and management of rare species and habitats, biodiversity protection and management, population and community ecology, and the effects of climate change on ecological systems. He is involved in understanding how ecological systems are impacted by environmental changes and works on strategies for conserving biodiversity. Dan Doak's work is conducted through the Doak Lab, and he is based in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Research topics

  • Demography
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Geography
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Algorithm
  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Virology

Selected publications

  • A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis

    Ecological Monographs · 2021 · 72 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    Abstract Structured demographic models are among the most common and useful tools in population biology. However, the introduction of integral projection models (IPMs) has caused a profound shift in the way many demographic models are conceptualized. Some researchers have argued that IPMs, by explicitly representing demographic processes as continuous functions of state variables such as size, are more statistically efficient, biologically realistic, and accurate than classic matrix projection m…

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  • Translocation with targeted vaccination is the most effective strategy to protect an island endemic bird threatened by West Nile virus

    Diversity and Distributions · 2020 · 32 citations

    Abstract Aim Invasive pathogens are a growing conservation challenge and often occur in tandem with rapid environmental transformation, such as climate change, drought and habitat loss. Climate change appears to have facilitated the spread of West Nile virus (WNV), a cause of widespread avian mortality. WNV is considered the primary threat to island scrub‐jays ( Aphelocoma insularis ), endemic to Santa Cruz Island, California. Two approaches have been proposed to safeguard island scrub‐jays: (a)…

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  • Climate manipulations differentially affect plant population dynamics within versus beyond northern range limits

    Journal of Ecology · 2020 · 27 citations

    Abstract Predicting species' range shifts under future climate is a central goal of conservation ecology. Studying populations within and beyond multiple species' current ranges can help identify whether demographic responses to climate change exhibit directionality, indicative of range shifts, and whether responses are uniform across a suite of species. We quantified the demographic responses of six native perennial prairie species planted within and, for two species, beyond their northern rang…

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  • Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance‐adapted native annual plants

    Ecology · 2021-07-08 · 25 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    With ongoing climate change, populations are expected to exhibit shifts in demographic performance that will alter where a species can persist. This presents unique challenges for managing plant populations and may require ongoing interventions, including in situ management or introduction into new locations. However, few studies have examined how climate change may affect plant demographic performance for a suite of species, or how effective management actions could be in mitigating climate cha…

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  • Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate

    Ecological Applications · 2020 · 23 citations

    Spatial gradients in population growth, such as across latitudinal or elevational gradients, are often assumed to primarily be driven by variation in climate, and are frequently used to infer species' responses to climate change. Here, we use a novel demographic, mixed-model approach to dissect the contributions of climate variables vs. other latitudinal or local site effects on spatiotemporal variation in population performance in three perennial bunchgrasses. For all three species, we find tha…

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