Samraat S. Pawar

Ecological and evolutionary drivers of thermal performance curves across the tree of life

The paper analyzes thermal performance curves across species to identify ecological and evolutionary drivers of thermal adaptation.

Structural Complementarity Maximizes Feasibility and Stability in Microbial Community Coalescence

The paper shows that structurally complementary microbial communities maximize feasibility and stability through reduced interaction alignment and enhanced self-regulation.

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data

The paper introduces MIReVTD, a standard for reporting vector trait data to improve data reuse and analysis consistency in vector-borne disease research.

Accuracy of the Lotka-Volterra Model fails in strongly coupled microbial consumer-resource systems

The paper evaluates the accuracy of the Lotka-Volterra model in capturing microbial consumer-resource dynamics and finds it fails under strong coupling due to omitted nonlinear interactions.

Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases

This study identifies that increased flexibility, not compactness, underlies thermal adaptation in prokaryotic adenylate kinases across 70 species.

General Patterns in the Temperature-Dependence of Heterotrophic Microbial Interactions

This study develops a mathematical framework to predict how temperature affects pairwise interactions among heterotrophic microbes, revealing that interactions are more thermally sensitive than metabolic traits and show systematic temperature-dependent changes.

The Role of Metabolic Strategies in Determining Microbial Community Diversity along Temperature Gradients

This study predicts a unimodal temperature-diversity pattern in microbial communities and supports it with empirical evidence from global temperature gradients.

Divergence of discrete- versus continuous-time calculations of the temperature dependence of maximum population growth rate in a disease vector

This study compares discrete- and continuous-time models for predicting temperature-dependent maximum population growth rate in Aedes aegypti, showing discrepancies influenced by resource availability and juvenile survival characterization.