1. Consequences of Local Conspecific Density Effects for Plant Diversity and Community Dynamics 

   LaManna, Joseph A.; Hartig, Florian; Myers, Jonathan A.; et al. (2024)

   Ecology Letters

   Conspecific density dependence (CDD) in plant populations is widespread, most likely caused by local-scale biotic interactions, and has potentially important implications for biodiversity, community composition, and ecosystem processes. However, progress in this important area of ecology has been hindered by differing viewpoints on CDD across subfields in ecology, lack of synthesis across CDD-related frameworks, and misunderstandings about ...

   Review Article

2. A root mucilage analogue from chia seeds reduces soil gas diffusivity 

   Haupenthal, Adrian; Duddek, Patrick; Benard, Pascal; et al. (2024)

   European Journal of Soil Science

   Gas exchange in the soil is determined by the size and connectivity of air-filled pores. Root mucilage reduces air-filled pore connectivity and thus gas diffusivity. It is unclear to what extent mucilage affects soil pore connectivity and tortuosity. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of gas diffusion processes in the rhizosphere by explaining the geometric alterations of the soil pore space induced by mucilage. We ...

   Journal Article

3. Private and Robust Distributed Nonconvex Optimization via Polynomial Approximation 

   He, Zhiyu; He, Jianping; Chen, Cailian; et al. (2024)

   IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

   There has been work that exploits polynomial approximation to solve distributed nonconvex optimization problems involving univariate objectives. This idea facilitates arbitrarily precise global optimization without requiring local evaluations of gradients at every iteration. Nonetheless, there remains a gap between existing guarantees and practical requirements, e.g., privacy preservation and robustness to network imperfections. To fill ...

   Journal Article

4. Microdroplet Arrays for High-Throughput Analysis and Biochemical Assays 

   Breitfeld, Maximilian; Dietsche, Claudius L.; Born, Friederike-L.; et al. (2024)

   Chimia

   Other Journal Item

5. Stratification of human gut microbiomes by succinotype is associated with inflammatory bowel disease status 

   Anthamatten, Laura; von Bieberstein, Philipp Rogalla; Menzi, Carmen; et al. (2024)

   Microbiome

   BackgroundThe human gut microbiome produces and consumes a variety of compounds that interact with the host and impact health. Succinate is of particular interest as it intersects with both host and microbiome metabolism. However, which gut bacteria are most responsible for the consumption of intestinal succinate is poorly understood.ResultsWe build upon an enrichment-based whole fecal sample culturing approach and identify two main ...

   Journal Article

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