Zachary R. Miller

The paper shows dormancy stabilizes oscillatory dynamics in structured food webs by converting high oscillation frequency into strong restoring force, but not in unstructured networks or those dominated by competitive or mutualistic interactions.

The paper shows that higher-order interactions in ecosystems lead to abrupt community collapse rather than gradual extinction, challenging traditional pairwise theory.

This study shows that multi-species coexistence in competitive communities can emerge from pairwise interactions without intransitivity, challenging the assumption that intransitive loops are necessary for emergent coexistence.

This study shows that population fluctuations favor the evolution of dormancy, which stabilizes dynamics and can lead to coexistence of dormancy strategies.