Adam Clark is interested in the factors that affect the spatial distributions of species across landscapes, and how new species establish themselves into existing communities. For the last three years, he has studied the ant communities on the Boston Harbor Islands. His current work focuses on identifying ant species that play a major role in determining island community structure, and discovering which biogeographic and ecological factors limit species’ ranges.

Adam has worked on a number of projects at the Farrell Lab, including sampling and insect identification for the ATBI, COI barcoding of specimens, and ant sampling in the Dominican Republic. He also presented “Ants as Indicator Species for Effects of Human Land Use” at the Boston Harbor Islands Science Symposium in 2008. Read the abstract here.