• Modern coexistence theory
• Understanding coexistence in multi-species and multi-trophic communities Theoretical Ecology Trait based competition models
• Investigation of coexistence in plankton communities using neural networks

https://jwspaak.com/

• Environmental Modelling I - III
• Exposure Modelling
• Effect Modelling

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A list of my first author publications, for the full list see : https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=hOyLv_8AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

• Trophic tug-of-war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels. C. Song, J.W. Spaak, Ecology letters 2024
• Building modern coexistence theory from the ground up: The role of community assembly, J.W. Spaak, SJ Schreiber, Ecology letters 2023
• Continuous assembly required: Perpetual species turnover in two‐trophic‐level ecosystems J.W. Spaak, PB Adler, SP Ellner, 2023 Ecosphere
• Mechanistic models of trophic interactions: opportunities for species richness and challenges for modern coexistence theory, J.W. Spaak, PB Adler, SP Ellner. The American Naturalist 2023
• The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences, J.W. Spaak, R Millet, PJ Ke, AD Letten, F De Laender, Theoretical Ecology 2023
• Different measures of niche and fitness differences tell different tales, JW Spaak, PJ Ke, AD Letten, F De Laender, Oikos 2023
• Niche differences, not fitness differences, explain predicted coexistence across ecological groups, L Buche, JW Spaak, J Jarillo, F De Laender, Oikos 2022
• Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences, JW Spaak, C Carpentier, F De Laender
• Ecology Letters, 2021
• Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types, JW Spaak, O Godoy, F De Laender, Oikos 2021
• Effects of pigment richness and size variation on coexistence, richness and function in light‐limited phytoplankton, JW Spaak, F De Laender, Journal of Ecology 2021
• Intuitive and broadly applicable definitions of niche and fitness differences JW Spaak, F De Laender, Ecology Letters, 2020
• Shifts of community composition and population density substantially affect ecosystem function despite invariant richness, Jurg W Spaak, Jan M Baert, Donald J Baird, Nico Eisenhauer, Lorraine Maltby, Francesco Pomati, Viktoriia Radchuk, Jason R Rohr, Paul J Van den Brink, Frederik De Laender Ecology Letters 2017