Kyle Crocker

The paper uses microcosm experiments and modeling to identify three functional regimes governing soil microbiome responses to pH changes, revealing distinct metabolic dynamics and underlying mechanisms.

This study uses spectral methods to infer resource competition in microbial communities from time series data, showing they outperform simple correlations.

The paper shows microbial functional guilds respond cohesively to rapid environmental fluctuations and competitively to slower ones, offering a framework for discovering guilds through nutrient perturbations.