Charlotte Lee

Journal Article Nat Chem Biol · April 2022 Microbial communities inhabit spatial architectures that divide a global environment into isolated or semi-isolated local environments, which leads to the partitioning of a microbial community into a collection of local communities. Despite its ubiquity an ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Disturbances Can Promote and Hinder Coexistence of Competitors in Ongoing Partner Choice Mutualisms.

Journal Article The American naturalist · March 2020 Featured Publication Ecosystems are under threat from anthropogenic and natural disturbances, yet little is known about how these disturbances alter mutualistic interactions. Many mutualistic interactions are highly context dependent and dynamic due to "ongoing" partner choice ... Full text Cite

Beyond the black box: Promoting mathematical collaborations for elucidating interactions in soil ecology

Journal Article Ecosphere · July 1, 2019 Understanding soil systems is critical because they form the structural and nutritional foundation for plants and thus every terrestrial habitat and agricultural system. In this paper, we encourage increased use of mathematical models to drive forward unde ... Full text Cite

A unifying framework for interpreting and predicting mutualistic systems.

Journal Article Nature communications · January 2019 Coarse-grained rules are widely used in chemistry, physics and engineering. In biology, however, such rules are less common and under-appreciated. This gap can be attributed to the difficulty in establishing general rules to encompass the immense diversity ... Full text Open Access Cite

Dynamic preferential allocation to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi explains fungal succession and coexistence.

Journal Article Ecology · February 2018 Evidence accumulates about the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in shaping plant communities, but little is known about the factors determining the biomass and coexistence of several types of AM fungi in a plant community. Here, using a consumer-r ... Full text Cite

Elasticity of population growth with respect to the intensity of biotic or abiotic driving factors.

Journal Article Ecology · April 2017 Demographic analysis can elucidate how driving factors, such as climate or species interactions, affect populations. One important question is how growth would respond to future changes in the mean intensity of a driving factor or in its variability, such ... Full text Open Access Cite

Inherent demographic stability in mutualist-resource-exploiter interactions.

Journal Article The American naturalist · April 2015 Core principles of ecological theory predict that, in the absence of other factors, mutualisms should experience destabilizing positive feedback and should be vulnerable to extinction through competitive exclusion by exploiter species. Many effective stabi ... Full text Cite

Consumer effects on the vital rates of their resource can determine the outcome of competition between consumers.

Journal Article The American naturalist · October 2011 Current competition theory does not adequately address the fact that competitors may affect the survival, growth, and reproductive rates of their resources. Ecologically important interactions in which consumers affect resource vital rates range from paras ... Full text Cite

Mutualism between consumers and their shared resource can promote competitive coexistence.

Journal Article The American naturalist · March 2010 Competitive coexistence depends on dynamic interactions between competitor and resource populations, including mutualism between the resource and each competitor. We add mutualism to a well-known model of resource competition and show that it can powerfull ... Full text Cite

Population and prehistory III: food-dependent demography in variable environments.

Journal Article Theoretical population biology · November 2009 The population dynamics of preindustrial societies depend intimately on their surroundings, and food is a primary means through which environment influences population size and individual well-being. Food production requires labor; thus, dependence of surv ... Full text Cite

Population and prehistory I: Food-dependent population growth in constant environments.

Journal Article Theoretical population biology · June 2008 We present a demographic model that describes the feedbacks between food supply, human mortality and fertility rates, and labor availability in expanding populations, where arable land area is not limiting. This model provides a quantitative framework to d ... Full text Cite

Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability.

Journal Article Ecology · January 2008 Both means and year-to-year variances of climate variables such as temperature and precipitation are predicted to change. However, the potential impact of changing climatic variability on the fate of populations has been largely unexamined. We analyzed mul ... Full text Cite

Demography in an increasingly variable world.

Journal Article Trends in ecology & evolution · March 2006 Recent advances in stochastic demography provide unique insights into the probable effects of increasing environmental variability on population dynamics, and these insights can be substantially different compared with those from deterministic models. Stoc ... Full text Cite