Christoph Ratzke

Emergent loss of microbial biodiversity with increasing resource diversity

The paper shows that increasing resource diversity reduces microbial biodiversity due to intensified competition from physiological responses in microbial taxa.

Biotic resistance predictably shifts microbial invasion regimes

The paper studies microbial invasion dynamics under biotic resistance and shows that simple models can predict complex invasion regimes.

Environment-mediated interactions cause an externalized and collective memory in microbes

The paper demonstrates that environmental changes caused by microbial interactions can create a collective memory in bacterial populations, influencing future community assembly based on past conditions.

Ecological suicide in microbes

The paper identifies ecological suicide as a phenomenon where bacteria modify environmental pH to the point of population extinction, showing it occurs across diverse microbes and can lead to oscillatory dynamics.