Last Updated: 14 October 2024

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 Phillip P.A. Staniczenko

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology

City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210
Office: Ingersoll Extension, Room 314

CUNY Graduate Center
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior (EEB) PhD Subprogram
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Office: Fourth floor, Room 4316

E-mail: pstaniczenko(at-sign)brooklyn(dot)cuny(dot)edu

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Predicting the effects of environmental change on ecosystems

My work examines the effect of anthropogenic change on ecological networks representing interactions among species in a community. I aim to develop new techniques for analysing large and complex multispecies data. By bridging theory and empirical work, I hope to advance our understanding of community ecology and improve our ability to predict the effects of environmental change on ecosystems.

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  1. Anderson, C.R., Curtsdotter, A.R.K., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Valdovinos, F.S. & Brosi, B.J. 2024
    The interplay of binary and quantitative structure on the stability of mutualistic networks
    Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64, 827–840
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  2. Staniczenko, P.P.A. & Panja, D. 2023
    Temporal origin of nestedness in interaction networks
    PNAS Nexus, 2, pgad412
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  3. French, C.M., Bertola, L.D., Carnaval, A.C., Economo, E.P., Kass, J.M., Lohman, D.J., Marske, K.A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A.J., Staniczenko, P.P.A. & Hickerson, M.J. 2023
    Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity
    Nature Communications, 14, 5276
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  4. Graham, N.R., Krehenwinkel, H., Lim, J.Y., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Callaghan, J., Andersen, J.C., Gruner, D.S. & Gillespie, R.G. 2023
    Ecological network structure in response to community assembly processes over evolutionary time
    Molecular Ecology, 32, ‍6489–6506
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  5. Lue, C.-H., Abram, P.K., Hrcek, J., Buffington, M.L. & Staniczenko, P.P.A. 2023
    Metabarcoding and applied ecology with hyper-diverse organisms: recommendations for biological control research
    Molecular Ecology, 32, ‍6461–6473
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  6. Fagan, W.F., Swain, A., Banerjee, A., Ranade, H., Thompson, P.R., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Barrett, F., Hungerford, J. & Hurwitz, S. 2022
    Quantifying interdependencies in geyser eruptions at the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023749
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  7. Zambrano, J., Arellano, G., Swenson, N.G., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Thompson, J. & Fagan, W.F. 2022
    Analyses of three-dimensional species associations reveal departures from neutrality in a tropical forest
    Ecology, 103, e3681
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  8. Lue, C.-H., Buffington, M.L., Scheffer, S., Lewis, M., Elliott, T.A., Lindsey, A.I.R., Driskell, A., Jandova, A., Kimura, M.T., Carton, Y., Kula, R.R., Schlenke, T.A., Mateos, M., Govind, S., Varaldi, J., Guerrieri, E., Giorgini, M., Wang, X., Hoelmer, K., Daane, K.M., Abram, P.K., Pardikes, N.A., Brown, J.J., Thierry, M., Poirié, M., Goldstein, P., Miller, S.E., Tracey, W.D., Davis, J.S., Jiggins, F.M., Wertheim, B., Lewis, O.T., Leips, J., Staniczenko, P.P.A. & Hrcek, J. 2021
    DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids
    Molecular Ecology Resources, 21, ‍2437–2454
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  9. Guy*, T.J., Hutchinson*, M.C., Baldock, K.C.R., Kayser, E., Baiser, B., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Goheen, J.R., Pringle, R.M. & Palmer, T.M. 2021
    *Joint first authors
    Large herbivores transform plant-pollinator networks in an African savanna
    Current Biology, 31, ‍2964–2971
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  10. Losapio, G., Schöb, C., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Carrara, F., Palamara, G.M., De Moraes, C.M., Mescher, M.C., Brooker, R.W., Butterfield, B.J., Callaway, R.M., Cavieres, L.A., Kikvidze, Z., Lortie, C.J., Michalet, R., Pugnaire, F.I. & Bascompte, J. 2021
    Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118, e2005759118
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  11. Timm, C.M., Loomis, K., Stone, W., Mehoke, T., Brensinger, B., Pellicore, M., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Charles, C., Nayak, S. & Karig, D. 2020
    Isolation and characterization of diverse microbial representatives from the human skin microbiome
    Microbiome, 8, 58
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  12. Thompson, P.R., Fagan, W.F. & Staniczenko, P.P.A. 2020
    Predictor species: Improving assessments of rare species occurrence by modeling environmental co-responses
    Ecology & Evolution, 10, ‍3293–3304
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  13. Alexander*, S.M., Staniczenko*, P.P.A. & Bodin, Ö. 2020
    *Joint first authors
    Social ties explain catch portfolios of small-scale fishers in the Caribbean
    Fish & Fisheries, 21, 120–131
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  14. Baldock, K.C.R., Goddard, M.A., Hicks, D.M., Kunin, W.E., Mitschunas, N., Morse, H., Osgathorpe, L.M., Potts, S.G., Robertson, K.M., Scott, A.V., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Stone, G.N., Vaughan, I.P. & Memmott, J. 2019
    A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3, 363–373
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  15. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Suttle, K.B. & Pearson, R.G. 2018
    Negative biotic interactions drive predictions of distributions for species from a grassland community
    Biology Letters, 14, 20180426
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  16. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Lewis, O.T., Tylianakis, J.M., Albrecht, M., Coudrain, V., Klein, A.-M. & Reed-Tsochas, F. 2017
    Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species
    Nature Communications, 8, 792
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  17. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Sivasubramaniam, P., Suttle, K.B. & Pearson, R.G. 2017
    Linking macroecology and community ecology: Refining predictions of species distributions using biotic interaction networks
    Ecology Letters, 20, 693–707
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  18. Bewick*, S., Staniczenko*, P.P.A., Li, B., Karig, D. & Fagan, W.F. 2017
    *Joint first authors
    Invasion speeds in microbial systems with toxin production and quorum sensing
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, 420, 290–303
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  19. Caravelli‡,*, F. & Staniczenko*, P.P.A. 2016
    *Joint first authors
    Bounds on transient instability for complex ecosystems
    PLOS ONE, 11, e0157876
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  20. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Smith, M.J. & Allesina, S. 2014
    Selecting food web models using normalized maximum likelihood
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 551–562
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  21. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Kopp, J.C. & Allesina, S. 2013
    The ghost of nestedness in ecological networks
    Nature Communications, 4, 1931
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  22. De Sassi, C., Staniczenko, P.P.A. & Tylianakis, J.M. 2012
    Warming and nitrogen affect size structuring and density dependence in a host-parasitoid food web
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, ‍3033–3041
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  23. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Lewis, O.T., Jones, N.S. & Reed-Tsochas, F. 2010
    Structural dynamics and robustness of food webs
    Ecology Letters, 13, 891–899
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  24. Staniczenko, P.P.A., Lee, C.-F. & Jones, N.S. 2009
    Rapidly detecting disorder in rhythmic biological signals: A spectral entropy measure to identify cardiac arrhythmias
    Physical Review E, 79:011915
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  25. Staniczenko, P.P.A. 2011
    Structure, dynamics, and robustness of ecological networks
    Doctoral Thesis, University of Oxford
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