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Effect of resource dynamics on species packing in diverse ecosystems
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, Pankaj Mehta
The competitive exclusion principle asserts that coexisting species must occupy distinct ecological niches (i.e. the number of surviving species can not exceed the number of resour…
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) --…
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…
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…
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…
The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Biochemical Oscillations
Robert Marsland, Wenping Cui, Jordan M. Horowitz
Living systems regulate many aspects of their behavior through periodic oscillations of molecular concentrations, which function as `biochemical clocks.' These clocks are intrinsic…