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20132021
most citedAvailable energy fluxes drive a transition in the diversity, stability, and functional structure of microbial communities

173 citations · 663 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from PBH-ABH Mergers

Wenfeng Cui, Fei Huang, Jing Shu +1

The measurement of gravitational waves produced by binary black-hole mergers at the Advanced LIGO has encouraged extensive studies on the stochastic gravitational wave background.…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 6 cited

The Perturbative Resolvent Method: spectral densities of random matrix ensembles via perturbation theory

Wenping Cui, Jason W. Rocks, Pankaj Mehta

We present a simple, perturbative approach for calculating spectral densities for random matrix ensembles in the thermodynamic limit we call the Perturbative Resolvent Method (PRM)…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

Machine Learning as Ecology

Owen Howell, Cui Wenping, Robert Marsland +1

Machine learning methods have had spectacular success on numerous problems. Here we show that a prominent class of learning algorithms - including Support Vector Machines (SVMs) --…

q-bio.PE2019★ 116 cited

A minimal model for microbial biodiversity can reproduce experimentally observed ecological patterns

Robert Marsland, Wenping Cui, Pankaj Mehta

Surveys of microbial biodiversity such as the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) and the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) have revealed robust ecological patterns across different enviro…

q-bio.PE2019★ 59 cited

The Community Simulator: A Python package for microbial ecology

Robert Marsland, Wenping Cui, Joshua Goldford +1

Natural microbial communities contain hundreds to thousands of interacting species. For this reason, computational simulations are playing an increasingly important role in microbi…

q-bio.PE2019

The Minimum Environmental Perturbation Principle: A New Perspective on Niche Theory

Robert Marsland, Wenping Cui, Pankaj Mehta

Fifty years ago, Robert MacArthur showed that stable equilibria optimize quadratic functions of the population sizes in several important ecological models. Here, we generalize thi…