Emily J. Zakem

The paper uses mechanistic population models to show how density dependence promotes species coexistence and explains productivity-diversity relationships.

This study uses a trait-based model to show how microbial facilitation and competition shape nitrogen cycling and biogeochemical outcomes in marine environments.

The paper examines how temperature affects microbial growth optimization and shows that genomic signatures of growth optimization better predict ecological roles than maximum growth rates.

The paper shows how periodic oxygen intrusions sustain aerobic nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in anoxic marine zones, increasing microbial diversity and altering biogeochemical cycling.

The paper synthesizes genetic data with a marine ecosystem model to analyze functional biogeography of marine heteroprokaryotes, identifying key ecological factors shaping their distribution.

The paper improves maximum growth rate prediction for microbes by integrating phylogenetic information with codon statistics, using a large database of temperature-corrected growth rates.

The paper develops a model linking microbial ecology and redox chemistry to predict shifts in nitrogen loss versus retention in aquatic systems under eutrophication.

The paper models ecological dynamics in marine oxygen minimum zones to explain the prevalence of different denitrification modules and their implications for nitrogen loss.