Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

Even in homogeneous conditions, plants facing a soilborne pathogen tend to show a binary
outcome with individuals either remaining fully healthy or developing severe to lethal …

Microbial consortia exhibit complex functional properties in contexts ranging from soils to
bioreactors to human hosts. Understanding how community composition determines …

Resource allocation affects the structure of microbiomes, including those associated with
living hosts. Understanding the degree to which this dependency determines interspecies …

Communities of microorganisms (microbiota) are present in all habitats on Earth and are
relevant for agriculture, health, and climate. Deciphering the mechanisms that determine …

Microbial community in natural or artificial environments playes critical roles in substance
cycles, products synthesis and species evolution. Although microbial community structures …

We study a reference model in theoretical ecology, the disordered Lotka-Volterra model for
ecological communities, in the presence of finite demographic noise. Our theoretical …

Fire blight represents a great threat to apple and pear production worldwide. The ability of its
causal agent, Erwinia amylovora, to spread rapidly in the host plants makes this devastating …

Antibiotic treatment significantly impacts the human gut microbiota, but quantitative
understanding of how antibiotics affect community diversity is lacking. Here, we build on …