M. Dubart

Joint species distributions reveal the combined effects of host plants, abiotic factors and species competition as drivers of species abundances in fruit flies

The paper uses joint species distribution modeling and network inference to show host plants are the main driver of fruit fly abundances, followed by climate factors and competition.

Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition

This paper introduces a framework to analyze metacommunity dynamics using spatiotemporal turnover signatures and applies it to simulated and empirical datasets to show environmental filtering varies across space and time.