Quqiming Duan

The paper evaluates the accuracy of the Lotka-Volterra model in capturing microbial consumer-resource dynamics and finds it fails under strong coupling due to omitted nonlinear interactions.

This study develops a mathematical framework to predict how temperature affects pairwise interactions among heterotrophic microbes, revealing that interactions are more thermally sensitive than metabolic traits and show systematic temperature-dependent changes.

This study predicts a unimodal temperature-diversity pattern in microbial communities and supports it with empirical evidence from global temperature gradients.