Many ecosystems, from vegetation to biofilms, are composed of territorial populations that
compete for both nutrients and physical space. What are the implications of such spatial …

The competition between bacteria often involves both nutrients and phage predators and
may give rise to abrupt regime shifts between the alternative stable states characterized by …

Living systems exhibit spatial differentiation at every scale, from the functional compartments
within cells to the biogeography of multi-species communities. In this dissertation, we …