Kevin Ricks

@kevinricks.bsky.social

PhD from University of Illinois. Postdoc at University of Toronto🍁 Plant-microbe interactions, community and evolutionary ecology 🏳️‍🌈🌲🧫🧗‍♂️ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9KlgDVMAAAAJ

I may have become the postdoc who takes forever to finish their last PhD chapter 😅 But I'm proud of this preprint. We found mutualisms aren’t fragile under global change: in the legume-rhizobia system, rhizobia rapidly evolved to buffer their plant hosts against drought doi.org/10.64898/202...

Mutualisms as engines for rapid adaptation: Rhizobium evolution facilitates plant drought resistance

Mutualisms play critical roles in organismal stress tolerance; yet environmental stressors may simultaneously alter the evolution of the mutualism itself. Stress may have particularly strong impacts o...

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