T. Knight

Reproductive success mediates the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant populations dynamics

This study examines how climate change and grassland management affect plant population dynamics, finding that extreme drought events can lead to quasi-extinction and that reproductive success is critical for population growth.

Spatial replication can best advance our understanding of population responses to climate

The paper shows that spatial replication can improve understanding of climate effects on plant populations by optimizing replicate spacing and quantifying statistical power gains.

Interacting abiotic and biotic drivers shape woody invasions across Hawaiian forests

The paper identifies factors shaping alien woody species richness and abundance in Hawaiian forests, finding environmental filtering influences colonization but not dominance.

Rpadrino: an R package to access and use PADRINO, an open access database of Integral Projection Models

Rpadrino provides an R package to access and use PADRINO, a database of Integral Projection Models, enabling users to reconstruct and analyze published IPMs.

Historical records of plant-insect interactions in subarctic Finland

The paper curates a historical dataset of plant-insect interactions in subarctic Finland from the late 19th century to compare ecological stability over time.

ipmr: Flexibly implement Integral Projection Models in R

The paper introduces the ipmr R package for flexibly building, analyzing, and interpreting integral projection models in ecology.

Demographic analysis of Israeli Carpobrotus populations: management strategies and future directions

This study uses drones to collect demographic data for Carpobrotus populations and parameterizes an Integral Projection Model, showing the population is stable and that targeting large individuals would most reduce growth.

Emergence of stable motifs in consumer-resource communities

The paper shows that vertical trophic chains emerge as stable and efficient structures in consumer-resource communities under minimal conditions.

Structural analysis of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm Type IV Secretion System Core Complex

The paper reports the structural analysis of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm T4SS core complex using cryo-EM, revealing its stoichiometry and protein interactions.

A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship

This paper introduces a framework to disentangle ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship using sampling-explicit parameters from rarefaction curves.

MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change

The paper introduces MoB, a method to decompose changes in species richness into components of abundance distribution, density, and spatial arrangement, and applies it to plant species data in invaded and uninvaded woodlands.