Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology
Litchman-Klausmeier Lab | Kellogg Biological Station | MSU
Using metabolic theory & omics to understand causes & consequences of thermal trait diversity in communities (especially phytoplankton)
Keila Stark (she/her)
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I’ve been looking at this cover all week! There is so much here - it takes day of the dead iconic image & mixes it with elements of sub-cellular architecture. What can you spot?
You can read the paper is illustrates about transcriptomic clocks here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reminder to register for the Unifying Ecology Gordon Conference by next Monday! Lest you miss out on this incredible line up! www.grc.org/unifying-eco... @jennsunday.bsky.social @ewaldoleitao.bsky.social #GRC #ecoevo
Magdalena Skipper
Keila Stark (she/her)
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"The double-edged effect of environmental fluctuations on evolutionary rescue" by Shibasaki & Yamamichi. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Abstract. Recent studies revealed that contemporary evolution can prevent population extinction in deteriorating environments. Such evolutionary rescue has
Our paper on transient dynamics and nonlinear fitness it out in Ecology! We present a matrix framework that links pulse (one-time) and press (sustained) perturbations, showing how transient nonlinearities and demography shape fitness. (1/3)
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Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp
Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!
Evolution
Leveraging biofilm isolates from a glacier-fed stream, researchers examined the nature and key bacterial traits that mediate competitive and positive interactions to uncover the drivers of bacterial interactions in stream biofilm communities. #mSystems: asm.social/2YG
Disturbances can occur as short-lived pulses (e.g., storms) or sustained presses (e.g., chronic drought). Much work in ecology has developed methods to help predict how natural populations respond to...
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In lakes with larger species pools, distantly related introduced fishes were more likely to invade (Darwin's hypothesis). In lakes with smaller species pools, closely related fishes were more likely to invade (the pre-adaptation hypothesis). #bioinvasions www.thebrighterside.news/post/swedish...
Harman Jaggi
Swedish lake data show dark diversity can predict when closely related or distant invasive fish are more likely to establish.
What have we actually learned from empirical applications of Modern Coexistence Theory? We reviewed 84 studies from the last two decades to find out. Read our new synthesis in Ecology Letters here:
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)
I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life
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Recently while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpba...
