Publications

Byl, P., Schvarcz, C. R., Thomy, J., Li, Q., Williams, C. B., LaButti, K., Schulz, F., Edwards, K. F., & Steward, G. F. (2025). Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus. bioRxiv, 2025–06.

Edwards, K. F., McBeain, K. A., Schvarcz, C. R., & Steward, G. F. (2025). Large, double‐stranded DNA viruses tend to suppress phytoplankton populations more effectively than small viruses of diverse genome type. Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Gajigan, A. P., Schvarcz, C. R., Conaco, C., Edwards, K. F., & Steward, G. F. (2025). Ultrastructural and transcriptional changes during a giant virus infection of a green alga. Npj Viruses, 3(1), 47.

Gajigan, A. P., Schvarcz, C. R., Laughlin, A. B., Weatherby, T. M., Culley, A. I., Edwards, K. F., & Steward, G. F. (2025). A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail. bioRxiv, 2025–07.

Bedi de Silva, A., Polson, S. W., Schvarcz, C. R., Steward, G. F., & Edwards, K. F. (2024). Genomic diversity and global distribution of four new prasinoviruses from the tropical North Pacific. bioRxiv, 2024–10.

Bedi de Silva, A., Polson, S. W., Schvarcz, C. R., Steward, G. F., & Edwards, K. F. (2024). Transient, context‐dependent fitness costs accompanying viral resistance in isolates of the marine microalga Micromonas sp.(class Mamiellophyceae). Environmental Microbiology, 26(8), e16686.

Edwards, K. F., & Hayward, C. (2024). The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria. Ecology Letters, 27(2), e14383.

Edwards, K. F., Rii, Y. M., Li, Q., Peoples, L. M., Church, M. J., & Steward, G. F. (2024). Trophic strategies of picoeukaryotic phytoplankton vary over time and with depth in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Environmental Microbiology, 26(8), e16689.

Li, Q., Dong, K., Wang, Y., & Edwards, K. F. (2024). Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 9(1), 81–91.

Schvarcz, C. R., Stancheva, R., Turk-Kubo, K. A., Wilson, S. T., Zehr, J. P., Edwards, K. F., Steward, G. F., Archibald, J. M., Oatley, G., & Sinclair, E. (2024). The genome sequences of the marine diatom Epithemia pelagica strain UHM3201 (Schvarcz, Stancheva & Steward, 2022) and its nitrogen-fixing, endosymbiotic cyanobacterium. Wellcome Open Research, 9, 232.

Thomy, J., Schvarcz, C. R., McBeain, K. A., Edwards, K. F., & Steward, G. F. (2024). Eukaryotic viruses encode the ribosomal protein eL40. Npj Viruses, 2(1), 51.

Edwards, K. F., Li, Q., McBeain, K. A., Schvarcz, C. R., & Steward, G. F. (2023). Trophic strategies explain the ocean niches of small eukaryotic phytoplankton. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(1991), 20222021.

Edwards, K. F., Li, Q., & Steward, G. F. (2023). Ingestion kinetics of mixotrophic and heterotrophic flagellates. Limnology and Oceanography, 68(4), 917–927.

Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F., Daskalova, G. N., & Edwards, K. (2023). Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science, 381(6662), 1067–1071.

DeLong, J. P., Al-Sammak, M. A., Al-Ameeli, Z. T., Dunigan, D. D., Edwards, K. F., Fuhrmann, J. J., Gleghorn, J. P., Li, H., Haramoto, K., & Harrison, A. O. (2022). Towards an integrative view of virus phenotypes. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 20(2), 83–94.

Edwards, K. (2022). Giant viruses in the open ocean: Is large size adaptive where cells are scarce? NSF Award Number 2129697. Directorate for Geosciences, 21(2129697), 29697.

Li, Q., Edwards, K. F., Schvarcz, C. R., & Steward, G. F. (2022). Broad phylogenetic and functional diversity among mixotrophic consumers of Prochlorococcus. The ISME Journal, 16(6), 1557–1569.

Edwards, K. F., Steward, G. F., & Schvarcz, C. R. (2021). Making sense of virus size and the tradeoffs shaping viral fitness. Ecology Letters, 24(2), 363–373.

Li, Q., Edwards, K. F., Schvarcz, C. R., Selph, K. E., & Steward, G. F. (2021). Plasticity in the grazing ecophysiology of Florenciella (Dichtyochophyceae), a mixotrophic nanoflagellate that consumes Prochlorococcus and other bacteria. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(1), 47–60.

Litchman, E., Edwards, K. F., & Boyd, P. W. (2021). Toward trait‐based food webs: Universal traits and trait matching in planktonic predator–prey and host–parasite relationships. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(11), 3857–3872.

Barton, K. E., Jones, C., Edwards, K. F., Shiels, A. B., & Knight, T. (2020). Local adaptation constrains drought tolerance in a tropical foundation tree. Journal of Ecology, 108(4), 1540–1552.

Madin, J. S., Nielsen, D. A., Brbic, M., Corkrey, R., Danko, D., Edwards, K., Engqvist, M. K., Fierer, N., Geoghegan, J. L., & Gillings, M. (2020). A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data. Scientific Data, 7(1), 170.

Barton, K. E., Edwards, K. F., & Koricheva, J. (2019). Shifts in woody plant defence syndromes during leaf development. Functional Ecology, 33(11), 2095–2104.

Edwards, K. F. (2019). Mixotrophy in nanoflagellates across environmental gradients in the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(13), 6211–6220.

Smith, A. N., & Edwards, K. F. (2019). Effects of multiple timescales of resource supply on the maintenance of species and functional diversity. Oikos, 128(8), 1123–1135.

Counsell, C. W., Donahue, M. J., Edwards, K. F., Franklin, E. C., & Hixon, M. A. (2018). Variation in coral-associated cryptofaunal communities across spatial scales and environmental gradients. Coral Reefs, 37(3), 827–840.

Edwards, K. F., Kremer, C. T., Miller, E. T., Osmond, M. M., Litchman, E., & Klausmeier, C. A. (2018). Evolutionarily stable communities: A framework for understanding the role of trait evolution in the maintenance of diversity. Ecology Letters, 21(12), 1853–1868.

Edwards, K. F., & Steward, G. F. (2018). Host traits drive viral life histories across phytoplankton viruses. The American Naturalist, 191(5), 566–581.

Robson, B. J., Arhonditsis, G. B., Baird, M. E., Brebion, J., Edwards, K. F., Geoffroy, L., Hébert, M.-P., van Dongen-Vogels, V., Jones, E. M., & Kruk, C. (2018). Towards evidence-based parameter values and priors for aquatic ecosystem modelling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 100, 74–81.

Ziegler, A., Smith, C., Edwards, K., & Vernet, M. (2017). Glacial dropstones: Islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 583, 1–14.

Bonachela, J. A., Klausmeier, C. A., Edwards, K. F., Litchman, E., & Levin, S. A. (2016). The role of phytoplankton diversity in the emergent oceanic stoichiometry. Journal of Plankton Research, 38(4), 1021–1035.

Edwards, K. F. (2016). Community trait structure in phytoplankton: Seasonal dynamics from a method for sparse trait data. Ecology, 97(12), 3441–3451.

Edwards, K. F., Thomas, M. K., Klausmeier, C. A., & Litchman, E. (2016). Phytoplankton growth and the interaction of light and temperature: A synthesis at the species and community level. Limnology and Oceanography, 61(4), 1232–1244.

Edwards, K. F., Klausmeier, C. A., & Litchman, E. (2015). Nutrient utilization traits of phytoplankton: Ecological archives E096-202. Ecology, 96(8), 2311–2311.

Edwards, K. F., Thomas, M. K., Klausmeier, C. A., & Litchman, E. (2015). Light and growth in marine phytoplankton: Allometric, taxonomic, and environmental variation. Limnology and Oceanography, 60(2), 540–552.

Litchman, E., de Tezanos Pinto, P., Edwards, K. F., Klausmeier, C. A., Kremer, C. T., & Thomas, M. K. (2015). Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: A trait‐based perspective. Journal of Ecology, 103(6), 1384–1396.

Litchman, E., Edwards, K. F., & Klausmeier, C. A. (2015). Microbial resource utilization traits and trade-offs: Implications for community structure, functioning, and biogeochemical impacts at present and in the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 254.

Long, E. C., Edwards, K. F., & Shapiro, A. M. (2015). A test of fundamental questions in mimicry theory using long-term datasets. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(3), 487–494.

Edwards, K., & Litchman, E. (2014). Phytoplankton communities. In Marine Community Ecology and Conservation (pp. 365–382). Sinauer.

Karban, R., Yang, L. H., & Edwards, K. F. (2014). Volatile communication between plants that affects herbivory: A meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters, 17(1), 44–52.