Outreach

Vegetation pattern formation and community assembly under drying climate trends

Ferré, M.A., Pavithra, I., Bera, B.K., Uecker, H., and Meron, E., Chaos 35, 093114, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0241537


Litter quality outweighs climate as a driver of 1 decomposition across the tundra biome 

Haydn, T.J.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Borderieux, J.,  et al., 2025


Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass

Höfer, S., de Groot, L., Scanlan, N. et al., Oecologia 207, 63 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05693-5


Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points

Rietkerk, M., Skiba, V., Weinans, E. et al., Nat. Clim. Chang. 15, 479–488 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02328-8


Tree seed dispersal modes affect forest resilience along savanna-forest boundaries

van der Rhee, M., Barkema, G.T., and Staal, A., Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094061, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adf907


Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland

van der Voort, J., Baudena, M., Meron, E., Rietker, M., and Doelman, A., Environ. Res. Letters, 20, 094052, 2025, DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adc3ab


Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points

Yi, C., Rietkerk, M., Anderies, J.M., Chen, D., Dakos, V., Ritchie, P.D.L., Rocha, J.C., Milkoreit, M., and Quinn, C., Environ. Res. Lett. 20 031008, 2025, DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f3


Can spatial self-organisation inhibit evolutionary adaptation?

Bera, B.K., Tzuk, O., Bennett, J.J.R., Dieckmann, U., and Meron, E., J. Royal Society Interface, 22, 222, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0454


Indications of ongoing noise-tipping of a bifurcation river system

Blom, A., Arbós, C.Y., Chowdhury, M.K., Doelman, A., Rietker, M., and Schielen, R.M.J., Geo.Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111846.https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111846


Travelling pulses on three spatial scales in a Klausmeier-type vegetation-autotoxicity model

Carter, P., Doelman, A., Iuorio, A., and Veerman, F., Nonlinearity, 37, 095008 (41pp), 2024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6544/ad6112


Deformations of acid-mediated invasive tumors in a model with Allee effect,

Carter, P., Doelman, A., van Heister, P., Levy, D., Maini, P., Okey, E., and Yeung, P., Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS), arXiv:2408.16172v1, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.16172


A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts

Lansu, E.M., Reijers, V.C., Höfer, S. et al., Nat Commun 15, 432, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44659-0


Traveling vegetation-herbivore waves can sustain ecosystems threatened by droughts and population growth

Singha, J., Uecker, H., and Meron, E., Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS), arXiv:2410.04305v1, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.04305


Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration

Zhang, Q., Yi, C., Destouni, G. et al., Nat Ecol Evol 8, 1870–1876, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02501-w


Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa

Zwaan, A., Staal, A., te Beest, M., and Rietkerk, M.: Environmental Research, DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8cef, accepted manuscript online 30 October 2024