Joshua Ladau

Climate change will lead to pronounced shifts in the diversity of soil microbial communities

The paper predicts climate change will increase soil bacterial diversity in parts of the Tibetan Plateau and northern North America due to a lag in soil communities adjusting to current climate conditions.

The geometry of the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities

The paper develops a piecewise quadratic model to describe the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities, showing it fits empirical data well across different taxa and scales.

The architecture and design of ecological null models

This paper introduces a framework for developing and testing ecological null models using mathematical optimization to improve inference accuracy.

Four fundamental processes of community assembly

The paper identifies four sampling processes underlying community assembly and shows that multinomial and fractional multinomial processes broadly underlie community assembly.