Antonino Malacrinò

The paper investigates how foliar pathogens and drought affect root microbiomes across different microbial communities, finding that stress responses are reproducible but depend on the initial community composition.

The paper shows that terrestrial aphid herbivory indirectly drives adaptive evolution in aquatic Daphnia populations by altering macrophyte and phytoplankton dynamics.

This study finds fire limits soil microbial dispersal and increases ecological drift in fungi, while reducing fungal diversity and bacterial rare taxa.

This study shows that soil disturbance reduces root fungal microbiome network robustness, with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi playing a key role in maintaining stability.

This study shows herbivory can increase plant fitness by reducing interspecific competition, supported by models and mesocosm experiments.