Mridul K. Thomas

This paper introduces a 4-parameter model to describe salinity-dependent growth in photosynthetic microbes, showing it captures growth curves and key traits across species and environments.

The paper develops an eco-physiological model of phytoplankton that incorporates respiration as a key process for nutrient uptake and shows a growth-maintenance tradeoff affecting nutrient-limited growth.

This paper develops Bayesian optimal experimental designs to improve efficiency in ecological experiments by reducing the number of measurements needed for accurate parameter estimation.

The paper compares thermal niches of marine phytoplankton using lab experiments and species distribution models, finding strong agreement between lab-measured growth temperatures and field occurrence temperatures.

The paper develops a model to predict how temperature and resource interactions affect microbial growth across populations and communities, validated with lab and field data.

The paper examines how temperature and resource availability affect phytoplankton populations, finding trait combinations that suggest some species may perform well under future warm and resource-limited conditions.

The paper experiments with two phytoplankton species under light gradients, showing resource limitation leads to even spacing of phenotypes in trait space.