Joey R. Bernhardt

The paper uses Pareto fronts to detect evolutionary constraints on niche-determining traits in phytoplankton, showing that trade-offs persist across scales despite differing evolutionary outcomes.

The paper integrates two ecological theories to predict how warming affects competition by reducing niche and fitness differences among species.

The paper examines how thermal performance traits and acute heat tolerance covary across ectotherm species, finding that both scale with CTmax but TPCmax increases more steeply.

The paper shows that dispersal temporarily reduces the thermal sensitivity of ecosystem productivity after a heatwave by homogenizing communities and spreading poorly adapted traits.

The paper compares thermal suitability models for malaria transmission using constant and fluctuating temperatures, finding that constant temperature models better predict thermal limits than rate summation.

The paper tests how temperature affects carrying capacity in phytoplankton, finding that population abundance decreases with temperature, consistent with metabolic scaling theory.