O. L. Petchey

Pollutome complexity determines the removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals

The paper shows that pollutome complexity drives biodegradation of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals through microbial community shifts and high-order interactions.

The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology

This study investigates how sampling frequency affects ecological forecasts and finds that optimal frequency depends on growth rates and interactions, suggesting it can guide monitoring strategies.

How to measure response diversity

This paper reviews methods for measuring response diversity and proposes a framework to quantify it from experimental and observational data across taxa.

Prey speed up, predators slow down: non-consumptive effects on movement behavior of a ciliate predator-prey pair

The paper examines non-consumptive and resource-availability effects on movement behavior in the ciliate predator-prey pair Didinium nasutum and Paramecium caudatum, showing predators slow down and prey speed up in response to each other.

Contrasting resistance and resilience to light variation of the coupled oxic and anoxic componentsof an experimental microbial ecosystem

This study examines how light deprivation affects oxygen dynamics and microbial diversity in oxic and anoxic layers of a microbial ecosystem, finding differential resilience in community function and structure.

Large and interacting effects of temperature and nutrient addition on stratified microbial ecosystems in a small, replicated, and liquid dominated Winogradsky column approach

This study examines how temperature and nutrient addition affect stratified microbial communities in Winogradsky columns, showing their interactive effects on microbial composition and abiotic conditions.

Co-occurrence history increases ecosystem temporal stability and recovery from a flood in experimental plant communities

The paper shows that plant communities with a history of co-occurrence are more stable and recover better from flooding than naive communities, even at low diversity.

Prior selection prevents the loss of an ecosystem cycle during acidification

The paper shows that prior exposure to acidification helps maintain diurnal dissolved oxygen cycles during severe acidification in aquatic mesocosms.

Dynamic species classification of microorganisms across time, abiotic and biotic environments - a sliding window approach

This paper introduces a sliding window approach for classifying microorganisms under dynamic environmental conditions, showing it outperforms simplistic methods and matches manual classification accuracy.