Overview
Background
Andrew is a population biologist in the School of Biological Sciences. A broad goal of his research is to understand the effect of environmental variability on the stability of ecological communities. At the same time, in order to deliver on this broader goal, he is working to scale up understanding from simple tractable systems to the more complex dynamics of real world-systems.
Before joining UQ, he was a Marie Curie fellow working with Jonathan Levine and Alex Hall at ETH Zurich (2018-2020), a postdoctoral fellow in Daniel Stouffer's lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2017-2018), and a CEHG (Centre for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics) postdoctoral fellow in Tad Fukami's lab at Stanford University, USA (2015-2017). He did his PhD (2011-2015) with David Keith in the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Australia.
Availability
- Dr Andrew Letten is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Microbial Dormancy Supports Multi‐Species Coexistence Under Resource Fluctuations
Letten, Andrew D., Yamamichi, Masato, Richardson, James A. and Ke, Po‐Ju (2024). Microbial Dormancy Supports Multi‐Species Coexistence Under Resource Fluctuations. Ecology Letters, 27 (9) e14507, e14507. doi: 10.1111/ele.14507
2023
Journal Article
Frequent, infinitesimal bottlenecks maximize the rate of microbial adaptation
Delaney, Oscar, Letten, Andrew D and Engelstadter, Jan (2023). Frequent, infinitesimal bottlenecks maximize the rate of microbial adaptation. Genetics, 225 (4) iyad185. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad185
2023
Journal Article
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments
Yamamichi, Masato, Letten, Andrew D. and Schreiber, Sebastian J. (2023). Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments. Ecology Letters, 26 (S1), S152-S167. doi: 10.1111/ele.14286
2023
Journal Article
The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences
Spaak, Jurg W., Millet, Remi, Ke, Po-Ju, Letten, Andrew D. and De Laender, Frederik (2023). The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences. Theoretical Ecology, 16 (2), 161-170. doi: 10.1007/s12080-023-00560-6
2023
Journal Article
Different measures of niche and fitness differences tell different tales
Spaak, Jurg W., Ke, Po‐Ju, Letten, Andrew D. and De Laender, Frederik (2023). Different measures of niche and fitness differences tell different tales. Oikos, 2023 (4) e09573. doi: 10.1111/oik.09573
2023
Journal Article
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities
Letten, Andrew D. and Ludington, William B. (2023). Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities. The ISME Journal, 17 (4), 641-644. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01369-1
2022
Journal Article
Extending the gleaner‐opportunist trade‐off
Yamamichi, Masato and Letten, Andrew D. (2022). Extending the gleaner‐opportunist trade‐off. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91 (11), 2163-2170. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13813
2021
Journal Article
Coexistence holes fill a gap in community assembly theory
Letten, Andrew D. (2021). Coexistence holes fill a gap in community assembly theory. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5 (8), 1062-1063. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01461-9
2021
Journal Article
Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation‐dependent species coexistence
Yamamichi, Masato and Letten, Andrew D. (2021). Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation‐dependent species coexistence. Ecology Letters, 24 (4), 812-818. doi: 10.1111/ele.13707
2021
Journal Article
Human-associated microbiota suppress invading bacteria even under disruption by antibiotics
Letten, Andrew D., Baumgartner, Michael, Pfrunder-Cardozo, Katia R., Levine, Jonathan M. and Hall, Alex R. (2021). Human-associated microbiota suppress invading bacteria even under disruption by antibiotics. The ISME Journal, 15 (9), 2809-2812. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-00929-7
2021
Journal Article
Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition
Letten, Andrew D., Hall, Alex R. and Levine, Jonathan M. (2021). Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5 (4), 431-441. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01385-w
2021
Journal Article
Gleaning, fast and slow: In defense of a canonical ecological trade-off
Letten, Andrew D. and Yamamichi, Masato (2021). Gleaning, fast and slow: In defense of a canonical ecological trade-off. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (5) e2022754118, 1-2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2022754118
2020
Journal Article
Publisher Correction: Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition
Hendershot, J. Nicholas, Smith, Jeffrey R., Anderson, Christopher B., Letten, Andrew D., Frishkoff, Luke O., Zook, Jim R., Fukami, Tadashi and Daily, Gretchen C. (2020). Publisher Correction: Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition. Nature, 581 (7808), E6-E6. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2310-0
2020
Journal Article
Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition
Hendershot, J. Nicholas, Smith, Jeffrey R., Anderson, Christopher B., Letten, Andrew D., Frishkoff, Luke O., Zook, Jim R., Fukami, Tadashi and Daily, Gretchen C. (2020). Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition. Nature, 579 (7799), 393-396. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2090-6
2019
Journal Article
Author Correction: A global test of ecoregions
Smith, Jeffrey R., Letten, Andrew D., Ke, Po-Ju, Anderson, Christopher B., Hendershot, J. Nicholas, Dhami, Manpreet K., Dlott, Glade A., Grainger, Tess N., Howard, Meghan E., Morrison, Beth M. L., Routh, Devin, Juan, Priscilla A. San, Mooney, Harold A., Mordecai, Erin A., Crowther, Thomas W. and Daily, Gretchen C. (2019). Author Correction: A global test of ecoregions. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3 (4), 708-708. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0858-6
2019
Journal Article
The mechanistic basis for higher-order interactions and non-additivity in competitive communities
Letten, Andrew D. and Stouffer, Daniel B. (2019). The mechanistic basis for higher-order interactions and non-additivity in competitive communities. Ecology Letters, 22 (3), 423-436. doi: 10.1111/ele.13211
2019
Journal Article
Applying modern coexistence theory to priority effects
Grainger, Tess Nahanni, Letten, Andrew D., Gilbert, Benjamin and Fukami, Tadashi (2019). Applying modern coexistence theory to priority effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (13), 6205-6210. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803122116
2018
Journal Article
A global test of ecoregions
Smith, Jeffrey R., Letten, Andrew D., Ke, Po-Ju, Anderson, Christopher B., Hendershot, J. Nicholas, Dhami, Manpreet K., Dlott, Glade A., Grainger, Tess N., Howard, Meghan E., Morrison, Beth M. L., Routh, Devin, San Juan, Priscilla A., Mooney, Harold A., Mordecai, Erin A., Crowther, Thomas W. and Daily, Gretchen C. (2018). A global test of ecoregions. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 (12), 1889-1896. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0709-x
2018
Journal Article
Coexistence theory and the frequency-dependence of priority effects
Ke, Po-Ju and Letten, Andrew D. (2018). Coexistence theory and the frequency-dependence of priority effects. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 (11), 1691-1695. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0679-z
2018
Journal Article
Species coexistence through simultaneous fluctuation-dependent mechanisms
Letten, Andrew D., Dhami, Manpreet K., Ke, Po-Ju and Fukami, Tadashi (2018). Species coexistence through simultaneous fluctuation-dependent mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (26), 6745-6750. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1801846115
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The costs and consequences of antibioitic resistance in fluctuating environments
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
The evolution of antibiotic resistance through the lens of ecological competition theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Microbial community dynamics in nonequilibrium systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Manipulating disturbance synchrony to regulate microbial systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr James Orr
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Doctor Philosophy
The role of resource fluctuations in structuring microbial communities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Costs of antibiotic resistance through the lens of resource-competition theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
The polygenic basis of adaptation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter, Professor Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, Dr Maddie James
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Doctor Philosophy
The effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on ecological dynamics in fluctuating environments
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter, Dr Simon Hart
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Doctor Philosophy
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities in the urinary tract
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Australian Wet Tropics vertebrate responses to multiple threats
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Nicholas Clark, Associate Professor Matthew Luskin
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Doctor Philosophy
Rapid evolution and the dynamics and stability of ecological communities.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter, Dr Simon Hart
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