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Couple new preprints led by lab members Stacey Butler and @MarioMuscarella on crossfeeding---and mutualistic interactions more generally mediated by exchange of resources. biorxiv.org/content/early/… biorxiv.org/content/early/…

Mechanizing higher-order interactions with the Stouffer Lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Competing species self-organize into trait-based clusters. My new PLOS Comp Biol paper with Annette Ostling shows this clustering is a general feature of stochastic competitive dynamics, and can be detected using the gap statistic. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

My recent PLOS Comp Biol paper with Annette Ostling about Trait-Based Clustering As An Indicator Of Species Competition was featured in Science Trends sciencetrends.com/trait-based-cl…

Clumpy coexistence in phytoplankton: The role of functional similarity in community assembly biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper out in Ecology with a great group of collaborators led by postdoc Rafael D'Andrea. Competition theory led a long time ago to the idea of limiting similarity---i.e. species in a community having widely spaced-out traits. But... x.com/ESAEcology/sta…

Getting along niche-ly: this paper by Rafael D'Andrea and co-authors examines how #spacialclustering and #niche partitioning allows similar species to co-exist in tropical #forests. Recommended by Thorsten Wiegand UFZ f1000.com/prime/73740912…

Paper tackles the debate over the relative roles of strategy differences v similarities of tropical trees to stably coexist. Rafael Rafael D'Andrea wrote a Science Trends piece on the theory paper that developed the method used in Ecology paper (2/2) sciencetrends.com/trait-based-cl…

Our response to Peter Chesson's (2019) comment on our review of Modern Coexistence Theory (2018) is out. Chesson’s coexistence theory: reply esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Species assemblages may behave like a neutral system despite differences in consumer preferences for alternative resources. Can we predict when that will happen? New paper out in PLOS Comp Biol with James O'Dwyer and Theo Gibbs doi.org/10.1371/journa…

As incoming chair serving the ESA Theoretical Ecology Theoretical Ecology section, I'm excited to see the presentations below & looking forward to highlighting the excellent science I tune in for next week. Please add your theory/theory-adjacent presentation here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

If you ask an ecologist for the data in their paper (which they agreed to make available on publication), chances are they will ignore you (Orange ignored, blue declined, purple sent data)

📅 Next Tuesday our seminar will be given by Mathew Leibold:🌟'Linking process to pattern in community assembly in diverse metacommunities'🌟 As ever, free for all - hope to see you there! Zoom link + details👉 iite.info/seminar/ Global times ⏰: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix…

🚨 Theory is hard to understand but also hard to communicate! We borrow principles from Cognitive Load Theory to provide a list of recommendations on how theory can be made more accessible. Read more about it in American Institute of Biological Sciences tinyurl.com/2vkwj577

Exciting REU opportunity: Data+Computing=Discovery iacs.sunysb in Stony Brook University! Deadline is at the end of this month. Our lab is a part of the great lineup of mentors in the program. Here's the complete list with the project descriptions iacs.stonybrook.edu/dcd/_mentors.p…. (1/2)

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Excited to announce this manuscript! We (@ChrisKlausmeier, Elena Litchman, Kaito Umemura and I) introduce a niche- and trait-based theoretical framework that combines local competition with regional dispersal to generate realistic Species-abundance Distributions.

Co-advised by the awesome @LG_Shoemaker!