M. T. Pearce

Spatiotemporal Ecological Chaos Enables Gradual Evolutionary Diversification Without Niches or Tradeoffs

This paper shows that spatiotemporal ecological chaos allows indefinite diversification of bacterial strains without niches or tradeoffs.

PPM-Decay: A Computational Model of Auditory Prediction with Memory Decay

PPM-Decay improves auditory prediction by introducing memory decay, enhancing performance on sequences with changing statistics and capturing memory constraints in pattern detection.

Stabilization of extensive fine-scale diversity by spatio-temporal chaos

The paper shows that spatio-temporal chaos can stabilize extensive microbial diversity without niche differences, using generalized Lotka-Volterra models with anti-symmetric interactions.

Rapid adaptation in large populations with very rare sex: scalings and spontaneous oscillations

This paper studies adaptation in large populations with rare sex, finding that adaptation speed depends on log(Nr)/log(N) and reveals spontaneous oscillations between mutation and reassortment phases.