Giulia Ghedini

This study shows that demographic parameters, not metabolic rate or initial evenness, predict community dominance in phytoplankton microcosms.

This study shows that species traits, not response diversity, consistently predict community stability under temperature disturbances in marine phytoplankton.

The paper investigates how resource availability and conspecific cues affect metabolic suppression in phytoplankton, finding that nutrient addition can reverse metabolic suppression and that respiration is more responsive to cues than photosynthesis.

The paper shows that population growth slows sublinearly with density in most species, challenging the resource-depletion model and suggesting other inhibitory processes are at play.

The paper shows that ecological predictability in phytoplankton communities arises at the population level, not from individual traits like cell size.

The paper shows that evolution within communities reduces phytoplankton coexistence but has limited effects on total productivity.

The paper shows that competition drives phytoplankton evolution, increasing biovolume production through metabolic changes that reduce density-dependent growth limitations.

The paper shows that biomass competition explains similar scaling patterns in individual and community levels across marine phytoplankton.