Brian E. Sedio

eCOMET integrates metabolomics tools and provides statistical analysis for ecological studies, enabling researchers to assess metabolic diversity and test ecological hypotheses.

The paper shows that baseline mortality and growth rates, not just sensitivity to crowding, drive variation in conspecific negative density dependence across species and environments.

This study examines how environmental factors influence metabolomic profiles in two cryptic lineages of Montastraea cavernosa, finding similar adaptive responses despite genetic divergence.

This study uses ecological metabolomics to show that chemical dissimilarity among tree species increases with species richness and warm, wet climates, supporting the role of chemically mediated biotic interactions in shaping elevational diversity gradients.

This study shows that undefended poison frogs accumulate low levels of alkaloids from their diet, suggesting passive accumulation as an intermediate step in the evolution of chemical defenses.

The paper curates LC-MS/MS data from plant extracts to create a taxonomically focused database for exploring plant-derived molecules.

The paper compares metabolomic diversity in temperate and tropical tree species, finding greater chemical differences among tropical congeners.