L. G. Shoemaker

Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modeling approach

This paper introduces a Bayesian sparse modeling approach to identify key species interactions in diverse communities by reducing parameter complexity and distinguishing environmental effects from competitive interactions.

Seed banks alter metacommunity diversity: the interactive effects of competition, germination, and survival

This study develops a metacommunity model incorporating seed banks to show that dormancy and dispersal interact nonlinearly to affect diversity maintenance and distribution.

Quantifying the relative importance of competition, predation, and environmental variation for species coexistence

The paper quantifies the relative importance of predation, competition, and environmental variation for species coexistence using integrated theory and a machine learning approach applied to a food web model.

A new variance ratio metric to detect the timescale of compensatory dynamics

The paper introduces a timescale-specific variance ratio metric to quantify compensatory dynamics in ecological communities and applies it to grassland data, showing variation in compensation across timescales.