Resilience of Alternative States in Spatially Extended Ecosystems

Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance

(2012) Christine Angelini et al.   ECOLOGY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gradual regime shifts in spatially extended ecosystems

(2012) Golan Bel et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Mussel Bed Boundaries as Dynamic Equilibria: Thresholds, Phase Shifts, and Alternative States

(2011) Megan J. Donahue et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Positive Feedbacks in Seagrass Ecosystems – Evidence from Large-Scale Empirical Data

(2011) Tjisse van der Heide et al.   PLoS One

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence and implications of recent and projected climate change in Alaska's forest ecosystems

(2011) Jane M. Wolken et al.   Ecosphere

Spatial Self‐Organization on Intertidal Mudflats through Biophysical Stress Divergence

(2010) Ellen J. Weerman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Landscape patterns in boundary intensity: a case study of mussel beds

(2010) Carlos D. Robles et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

(2010) John M. Drake et al.   NATURE

Abrupt regime shifts in space and time along rivers and connected lake systems

(2010) Sabine Hilt et al.   OIKOS

Thinking and managing outside the box: coalescing connectivity networks to build region-wide resilience in coral reef ecosystems

(2009) R. S. Steneck et al.   CORAL REEFS

An object-oriented, individual-based approach for simulating the dynamics of genes in subdivided populations

(2009) Johnathan T. Kool   Ecological Informatics

Guidelines for seagrass restoration: Importance of habitat selection and donor population, spreading of risks, and ecosystem engineering effects

(2009) M.M. van Katwijk et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts

(2009) Vasilis Dakos et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Potential for Sudden Shifts in Transient Systems: Distinguishing Between Local and Landscape-Scale Processes

(2008) Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Alternative stable states in Australia’s Wet Tropics: a theoretical framework for the field data and a field-case for the theory

(2008) Laura Warman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Experimental Evidence for Spatial Self-Organization and Its Emergent Effects in Mussel Bed Ecosystems

(2008) J. van de Koppel et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial variance and spatial skewness: leading indicators of regime shifts in spatial ecological systems

(2008) Vishwesha Guttal et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

(2008) Max Rietkerk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate change and the northern Russian treeline zone

(2007) G.M MacDonald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES