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Adam Lampert

Adam Lampert

Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

adam.lampert@mail.huji.ac.il

Titles

  • Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

Biography

As a past postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Davis, Dr. Lampert also holds a Ph. D. in Physics of Complex Systems from Weizmann Institute and an M. Sc. In Physics from Ben-Gurion University.

He is a theoretical ecologist interested in general principles that apply to a wide variety of ecosystems at different spatial, temporal and organismal scales.

On the topic of ecosystem management, he is interested in using optimal control and differential game theory to find general principles to guide cost-effective management for restoration of degraded ecosystems. He conducts research in community and spatial ecology as well, investigating how connectivity and migration rates shape multimodal body-size distributions, promote persistence and change the roles of local versus regional biodiversity in predator-prey ecosystems.

Dr. Lampert also explores the research topic of the evolution of social behaviors, where a variety of social behaviors and traits encompass a tradeoff between the competitive abilities of their individual carrier and the reproductive abilities of either (i) the carrier itself (asymmetric traits) or (ii) the neighboring population (cooperative/defective traits). He investigates (i) how asymmetric and cooperative behaviors/traits evolve over a continuum of possible values and whether they exhibit polymorphism (using adaptive dynamics analysis) and (ii) how behavioral plasticity affects interactions and coexistence with other species.

Education

  • PhD, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2012
  • MS, Physics, Ben Gurion University, 2007
  • BA, Sciences with emphasis on mathematics, The Open University, 2004

Expertise

Journal Articles

2016

Lampert, A. and A. Hastings. 2016. Stability and distribution of predator-prey systems: Local and regional mechanisms and patterns. Ecology Letters 19(3):279-288. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12565. (link )

Lampert, A. and T. Tlusty. 2016. Where two are fighting, the third wins: Stronger selection facilitates greater polymorphism in traits conferring competition-dispersal tradeoffs. PLOS One 11(2):e0147970. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147970. (link )

2014

Lampert, A. and A. Hastings. 2014. Optimal control of population recovery -- the role of economic restoration threshold. Ecology Letters 17(1):28-35. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12199. (link )

Lampert, A. and A. Hastings. 2014. Sharp changes in resource availability may induce spatial nearly periodic population abundances. Ecological Complexity 19(Sep):80-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.05.002. (link )

Lampert, A., A. Hastings, E. D. Grosholz, S. L. Jardine and J. N. Sanchirico. 2014. Optimal approaches for balancing invasive species eradication and endangered species management. Science 344(6187):1028-1031. DOI: 10.1126/science.1250763. (link )

2013

Lampert, A. and A. Hastings. 2013. Synchronization-induced persistence versus selection for habitats in spatially coupled ecosystems. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10(87):20130559. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0559. (link )

Lampert, A. and T. Tlusty. 2013. Resonance-induced multimodal body-size distributions in ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(1):205-209. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211761110. (link )

Majeed, H., A. Lampert, L. Ghazaryan and O. Gillor. 2013. The weak shall inherit: Bacteriocin-mediated interactions in bacterial populations. PLOS One 8(5):e63837. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063837. (link )

2011

Lampert, A. and T. Tlusty. 2011. Density-dependent cooperation as a mechanism for persistence and coexistence. Evolution 65(10):2750-2759. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01364.x. (link )

2009

Lampert, A. and T. Tlusty. 2009. Mutability as an altruistic trait in finite asexual populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 261(3):414-422. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.08.027. (link )

2007

Lampert, A. and E. Meron. 2007. Localized structures as spatial hosts for unstable modes. Europhysics Letters 78(1):14002. DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/78/14002. (link )