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ArticleEcology letters2025

Environment-Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions.

Oliver J Meacock, Sara Mitri

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Article in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Oliver J MeacockDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6269-9855
Sara MitriDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3930-5357

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program LT0020/2022-LSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 51NF40_180575Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung PCEGP3_181272
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecological interactions are foundational to our understanding of community composition and function. While interactions are known to change depending on the environmental context, it has generally been assumed that external environmental factors are responsible for driving these dependencies. Here, we derive a theoretical framework which instead focuses on how intrinsic environmental changes caused by the organisms themselves alter interaction values. Our central concept is the 'instantaneous interaction', which captures the feedback between the current environmental state and organismal growth, generating spatiotemporal context-dependencies as organisms modify their environment over time and/or space. We use small microbial communities to illustrate how this framework can predict time-dependencies in a toxin degradation system, and relate time- and spatial-dependencies in crossfeeding communities. By re-centring the relationship between organisms and their environment, our framework predicts the variations in interactions wherever intrinsic, organism-driven environmental change dominates over external drivers.

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Models, BiologicalEcosystemEnvironmentantibiotic resistanceconsumer‐resource modellingcontext‐dependencycrossfeedingecological interactionsmathematical ecologymicrobial communitiesmicrofluidicsspatiotemporal dynamicsstress gradient hypothesis

Identifiers

PMID39737705
PMCPMC11687356

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