The composition of an ecosystem is thought to be important for determining its resistance to
invasion. Studies of natural ecosystems, from plant to microbial communities, have found …

10.7554/eLife.24669.001 Constraints on phenotypic variation limit the capacity of organisms
to adapt to the multiple selection pressures encountered in natural environments. To better …

Cycles of nutrients (N, P, etc.) and resources (C) are a defining emergent feature of
ecosystems. Cycling plays a critical role in determining ecosystem structure at all scales, from …

Phenotypes of individuals in a population of organisms are not fixed. Phenotypic fluctuations,
which describe temporal variation of the phenotype of an individual or individual-to-…

Nutrient cycling is an emergent property of ecosystems at all scales, from microbial communities
to the entire biosphere. Understanding how nutrient cycles emerge from the collective …

In nature, the composition of an ecosystem is thought to be important for determining its
resistance to invasion by new species. Studies of invasions in natural ecosystems, from plant to …

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a region of the human genome that is key to
immune system function but sometimes refractory to genomic analyses due to extreme …

Paramecia swim through the coordinated beating of the 1000's of cilia covering their body.
We have measured the swimming speed of populations of Paramecium Caudatam in …

We present a novel method for nanoscale thermal imaging of insulating thin films. We
demonstrate this method on VO 2, which undergoes a sharp insulator-to-metal transition at 340 K. …

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… First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents, Tinker and Mark Mickalide. Having a …