Thomas Bell

This study surveys electricity production among environmental bacterial isolates, finding 11-22% of taxa display exoelectrogenic activity, identifying three novel species and showing phylogenetic conservation of the trait.

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

The paper shows that microbial community phylogenetic clustering can indicate chemical pollution, using the net relatedness index as a monitoring tool.

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

The paper screens bat samples for coronaviruses, identifies novel strains, and assesses their potential to infect humans.

The paper introduces functionInk, a method to detect functional groups in multidimensional networks, revealing ecological community structures by identifying modules and guilds.