I am a theoretical ecologist with broad interests at the interface between community ecology, evolution and ecosystem. I am particularily interested in understanding both the drivers and impacts of positive interactions in ecological communities, with a focus on plant and microbial systems. This leads me to develop novel modeling frameworks that combine resource-explicit, trait-based, and structured population approaches.
I apply my work to a variety of ecological systems, such as nitrogen-fixation, plant defenses, cross-feeding microbes and gut microbiomes.
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Publications
Display of 1 to 14 publications on 14 in total
The three‐species problem: Incorporating competitive asymmetry and intransitivity in modern coexistence theory
Ecology Letters . 27
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14426
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see the publicationConnecting local and regional scales with stochastic metacommunity models: Competition, ecological drift, and dispersal
Ecological monographs . 93 ( 4 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1591
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see the publicationA Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly
The American Naturalist . 201 ( 4 ) : 501-522
DOI: 10.1086/723406
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see the publicationHow public can public goods be? Environmental context shapes the evolutionary ecology of partially private goods
PLoS Computational Biology . 18 ( 11 ) : e1010666
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see the publicationA general framework for species‐abundance distributions: Linking traits and dispersal to explain commonness and rarity
Ecology Letters . 25 ( 11 ) : 2359-2371
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14094
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see the publicationResource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota
The American Naturalist . 198 ( 1 ) : 1-12
DOI: 10.1086/714527
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see the publicationFrom competition to facilitation and mutualism: a general theory of the niche
Ecological monographs . 91 ( 3 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1458
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see the publicationTrait-based ecological and eco-evolutionary theory
Theoretical Ecology . : 161-194
Book chapter
see the publicationMicrobial cross-feeding promotes multiple stable states and species coexistence, but also susceptibility to cheaters
Journal of Theoretical Biology . 465 : 63-77
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see the publicationPlant Strategies along Resource Gradients
The American Naturalist . 192 ( 3 ) : 360 - 378
DOI: 10.1086/698600
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see the publicationFacilitation- versus competition-driven succession: the key role of resource-ratio
Ecology Letters . 21 ( 7 ) : 1010-1021
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12966
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see the publicationNew insights from niche theory on plant adaptation and ecosystem functioning
Thesis
see the publicationGeometrical envelopes: Extending graphical contemporary niche theory to communities and eco-evolutionary dynamics
Journal of Theoretical Biology . 407 : 271-289
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see the publicationTwo-component Bose gases with one-body and two-body couplings
Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015] . 88 : 063646
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