Oliver Kaltz

This study shows that adaptation to complex environments with multiple stressors leads to lower fitness gains and higher fitness reductions under benign conditions compared to single stressors.

This study shows that parasite-parasite interactions affect spatial epidemiology, with within-host interactions having the strongest impact on prevalence and spread.

This study shows that parasites at the front of an epidemic evolve higher infectivity and lower virulence, which accelerates epidemic spread when host dispersal is limited.

The paper develops an eco-evolutionary model to study how host dispersal and parasite virulence co-evolve in different landscapes, finding landscape-specific patterns influenced by network topology.

The paper develops an eco-evolutionary model of host-parasite dynamics on spatial networks, showing virulence is unimodal with dispersal and kin selection drives virulence evolution.

The paper investigates heritable variation in resistance to the parasite Holospora undulata across Paramecium caudatum strains, finding substantial genetic variation and geographic patterns of resistance.

This study shows parasites at the front of an epidemic evolve lower virulence and less horizontal transmission investment, suggesting a trade-off between virulence and host dispersal.

The paper tests how bottom-up and top-down controls affect dispersal across species and shows their impacts on community dynamics.

The paper shows antibiotic stress reduces public goods production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by favoring non-producers, which have higher survival and resistance.