Michel E. B. Ohmer

The paper examines how thermal variability influences host-parasite defense strategies and infection dynamics, showing temperature variability can reduce infection prevalence but promote tolerance, increasing net prevalence.

This study investigates biogeographic patterns in microbial communities of freshwater ponds, finding latitudinal diversity gradients in fungi but not bacteria, and weak distance decay relationships.

The paper quantifies aggregation patterns of the fungal pathogen Bd in amphibians, showing higher aggregation than macroparasites and linking it to biological processes.

The paper investigates the correlation between Bd-GPL genotype and host species identity in amphibians, revealing a previously unknown association and identifying the eastern US as a Bd diversity hotspot.