C. I. Abreu

Strong environmental memory revealed by experimental evolution in static and fluctuating environments

The paper tracks yeast lineages in static and fluctuating environments, finding fitness deviations and environmental memory effects due to prior conditions.

Warmer temperatures favor slower-growing bacteria in natural marine communities

The paper shows that higher seawater temperatures favor slower-growing bacteria in marine communities, explaining their dominance in warm conditions.

Environmental fluctuations reshape an unexpected diversity-disturbance relationship in a microbial community

The paper investigates how environmental disturbances affect microbial community diversity by decomposing disturbances into intensity and fluctuation components and observing their effects on soil-derived bacterial communities.

Higher Temperatures Generically Favor Slower-Growing Bacterial Species in Multispecies Communities

The paper predicts that higher temperatures favor slower-growing bacterial species in communities and validates this with experimental cocultures.

Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities in a fluctuating environment

The paper shows that environmental fluctuations can lead to alternative stable states in microbial communities, with outcomes dependent on initial conditions and not timing, confirmed by both experiments and a Lotka-Volterra model.

Mortality causes universal changes in microbial community composition

The paper shows that increased mortality favors faster-growing microbes in multispecies communities, reversing competitive outcomes based on growth rate and competitive ability tradeoffs.