Feedbacks between vegetation pattern and resource loss dramatically decrease ecosystem resilience and restoration potential in a simple dryland model

Variations in hydrological connectivity of Australian semiarid landscapes indicate abrupt changes in rainfall-use efficiency of vegetation

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Early Detection of Ecosystem Regime Shifts: A Multiple Method Evaluation for Management Application

(2012) Martin Lindegren et al.   PLoS One

Slowing Down in Spatially Patterned Ecosystems at the Brink of Collapse

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecohydrological interactions in a degraded two-phase mosaic dryland: implications for regime shifts, resilience, and restoration

(2011) Elizabeth G. King et al.   Ecohydrology

Assessing landscape structure and pattern fragmentation in semiarid ecosystems using patch-size distributions

(2011) Mariano Moreno-de las Heras et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Hierarchical analysis of vegetation dynamics over 71 years: soil–rainfall interactions in a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

(2011) Dawn M. Browning et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   ECOLOGY

A degradation threshold for irreversible loss of soil productivity: a long-term case study in China

(2011) Yang Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction

(2010) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scale-dependent variation in runoff and sediment yield in a semiarid Mediterranean catchment

(2010) Ángeles G. Mayor et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Seed removal susceptibility through soil erosion shapes vegetation composition

(2010) Patricio García-Fayos et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Periodic versus scale-free patterns in dryland vegetation

(2010) J. von Hardenberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Redistribution of Runoff Among Vegetation Patch Types: On Ecohydrological Optimality of Herbaceous Capture of Run-On

(2010) Anna M. Urgeghe et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems

(2010) Sonia Kéfi et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

(2009) Gregory S. Okin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Factors and interactions controlling infiltration, runoff, and soil loss at the microscale in a patchy Mediterranean semiarid landscape

(2009) Ángeles G. Mayor et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

A coupled human–environment model for desertification simulation and impact studies

(2008) Ulf Helldén   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The global biogeography of semi-arid periodic vegetation patterns

(2008) Vincent Deblauwe et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Facilitation, competition, and vegetation patchiness: From scale free distribution to patterns

(2008) Alon Manor et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Measurement of the connectivity of runoff source areas as determined by vegetation pattern and topography: A tool for assessing potential water and soil losses in drylands

(2008) Ángeles G. Mayor et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH