[HTML][HTML] Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics

K Faust, L Lahti, D Gonze, WM De Vos… - Current opinion in …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•A wealth of longitudinal data gives insights into microbial ecosystem dynamics.•
Longitudinal analysis can uncover periodicity, irregularities and alternative states.•Intrinsic …

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) model: mechanisms driving plankton succession

U Sommer, R Adrian… - Annual review of …, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community
assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions sha** …

Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience

BMS Arani, SR Carpenter, L Lahti, EH Van Nes… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION Financial markets may collapse, rainforest can shift to savanna, a person
can become trapped in a depression, and the Gulf Stream can come to a standstill. Such …

Warmer climates boost cyanobacterial dominance in shallow lakes

S Kosten, VLM Huszar, E Bécares… - Global Change …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dominance by cyanobacteria hampers human use of lakes and reservoirs worldwide.
Previous studies indicate that excessive nutrient loading and warmer conditions promote …

Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems

Y Yang, KR Foster, KZ Coyte, A Li - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023‏ - nature.com
What drives the stability, or instability, of complex ecosystems? This question sits at the heart
of community ecology and has motivated a large body of theoretical work exploring how …

Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton

E Litchman, P de Tezanos Pinto, CA Klausmeier… - Hydrobiologia, 2010‏ - Springer
In addition to answering Hutchinson's question “Why are there so many species?”, we need
to understand why certain species are found only under certain environmental conditions …

The annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass

M Winder, JE Cloern - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Terrestrial plants are powerful climate sentinels because their annual cycles of growth,
reproduction and senescence are finely tuned to the annual climate cycle having a period of …

High resolution time series reveals cohesive but short-lived communities in coastal plankton

AM Martin-Platero, B Cleary, K Kauffman… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Because microbial plankton in the ocean comprise diverse bacteria, algae, and protists that
are subject to environmental forcing on multiple spatial and temporal scales, a fundamental …

Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory

ER White, A Hastings - Ecological Complexity, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Seasonality is an important feature of essentially all natural systems but the consequences
of seasonality have been vastly underappreciated. Early work emphasized the role of …

Rethinking the prevalence and relevance of chaos in ecology

SB Munch, TL Rogers, BJ Johnson… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Chaos was proposed in the 1970s as an alternative explanation for apparently noisy
fluctuations in population size. Although readily demonstrated in models, the search for …