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View article: How human infrastructure threatens biodiversity by squeezing sandy coasts
How human infrastructure threatens biodiversity by squeezing sandy coasts Open
Coastal dunes form valuable ecosystems that provide flood protection, drinking water, and high biodiversity worldwide. Although their functioning hinges on habitat zonation along >km-scale sea-to-land gradients, infrastructure development …
View article: Spatial and temporal scale–dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands
Spatial and temporal scale–dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands Open
Biota could be ecosystem engineers in generating an intrinsic heterogeneous landscape through scale-dependent feedbacks. Thereby, they can form resource-enriched patchiness or islands of fertility, comprising self-organizing spatial patter…
View article: Spatial and temporal scale-dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands
Spatial and temporal scale-dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands Open
Biota could be ecosystem engineers in generating an intrinsic heterogeneous landscape through scale-dependent feedbacks. Thereby, they can form resource enriched patchiness or islands of fertility, comprising of self-organizing spatial pat…
View article: Overgrazing erodes the sink role of vegetated mounds in semiarid hillslopes
Overgrazing erodes the sink role of vegetated mounds in semiarid hillslopes Open
View article: Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass
Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass Open
Habitat-modifying plants engineer biogeomorphic landscapes through self-reinforcing interactions with their physical environment, or so-called ‘biogeomorphic feedbacks’. Nevertheless, benefits can vary across a biogeomorphic landscape grad…
View article: The effect of a climatic compound drought and heatwave event on the dune-building grass Elytrigia juncea
The effect of a climatic compound drought and heatwave event on the dune-building grass Elytrigia juncea Open
Background and aims Coastal dunes provide vital ecosystem services, including flood protection and freshwater storage. These ecosystems are shaped by clonally-growing dune grasses that trap sediment as patch size increases, enabling the gr…
View article: Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland
Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland Open
Tree-grass coexistence is a defining feature of savanna ecosystems, which play an important role in supporting biodiversity and human populations worldwide. While recent advances have clarified many of the underlying processes, how these m…
View article: How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability
How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability Open
View article: How spatiotemporal dynamics can enhance ecosystem resilience
How spatiotemporal dynamics can enhance ecosystem resilience Open
We study how self-organization in systems showing complex spatiotemporal dynamics can increase ecosystem resilience. We consider a general simple model that includes positive feedback as well as negative feedback mediated by an inhibitor. …
View article: Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points
Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points Open
View article: Indications of Ongoing Noise‐Tipping of a Bifurcating River System
Indications of Ongoing Noise‐Tipping of a Bifurcating River System Open
Tipping occurs when a critical point is reached, beyond which a perturbation leads to persistent system change. Here, we present observational indications demonstrating presently ongoing noise‐tipping of a real‐world system. Noise in a riv…
View article: Extreme heat and drought did not affect interspecific interactions between dune grasses
Extreme heat and drought did not affect interspecific interactions between dune grasses Open
View article: Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa
Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa Open
Tropical forest and savanna frequently coexist under the same climatic conditions, which has led to the hypothesis that they could represent alternative ecosystem states, stabilized by internal feedbacks. An implication of this hypothesis …
View article: Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration
Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration Open
View article: Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration
Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration Open
View article: Resemblance of the global depth distribution of internal-tide generation and cold-water coral occurrences
Resemblance of the global depth distribution of internal-tide generation and cold-water coral occurrences Open
Internal tides are known to be an important source of mixing in the oceans, especially in the bottom boundary layer. The depth of internal-tide generation therefore seems important for benthic life and the formation of cold-water coral mou…
View article: Resistant high tree cover mode with increasing fire in Indonesian natural peatland ecosystems
Resistant high tree cover mode with increasing fire in Indonesian natural peatland ecosystems Open
The vulnerability of tropical ecosystems to global changes is a growing concern, with tree cover distribution patterns playing a pivotal role in their responses to changing environmental conditions. It is important to understand how natura…
View article: Building your own mountain: the effects, limits, and drawbacks of cold-water coral ecosystem engineering
Building your own mountain: the effects, limits, and drawbacks of cold-water coral ecosystem engineering Open
Framework-forming cold-water corals (CWCs) are ecosystem engineers that build mounds in the deep sea that can be up to several hundred metres high. The effect of the presence of cold-water coral mounds on their surroundings is typically di…
View article: Facilitation and competition deconstructed: a mechanistic modelling approach to the stress gradient hypothesis applied to drylands
Facilitation and competition deconstructed: a mechanistic modelling approach to the stress gradient hypothesis applied to drylands Open
View article: A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts
A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts Open
View article: A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts - Scripts & Data
A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts - Scripts & Data Open
Coastal ecosystems provide vital services, but human disturbance causes massive losses. Remaining ecosystems are squeezed between rising seas and human infrastructure development. While shoreline retreat is intensively studied, coastal con…
View article: A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts - Scripts & Data
A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts - Scripts & Data Open
Coastal ecosystems provide vital services, but human disturbance causes massive losses. Remaining ecosystems are squeezed between rising seas and human infrastructure development. While shoreline retreat is intensively studied, coastal con…
View article: Travelling waves due to negative plant–soil feedbacks in a model including tree life-stages
Travelling waves due to negative plant–soil feedbacks in a model including tree life-stages Open
The emergence and maintenance of tree species diversity in tropical forests is commonly attributed to the Janzen-Connell (JC) hypothesis, which states that growth of seedlings is suppressed in the proximity of conspecific adult trees. As a…
View article: Modelling how negative plant–soil feedbacks across life stages affect the spatial patterning of trees
Modelling how negative plant–soil feedbacks across life stages affect the spatial patterning of trees Open
View article: Tiger reefs: Self‐organized regular patterns in deep‐sea cold‐water coral reefs
Tiger reefs: Self‐organized regular patterns in deep‐sea cold‐water coral reefs Open
Complexity theory predicts that self‐organized, regularly patterned ecosystems store more biomass and are more resilient than spatially uniform systems. Self‐organized ecosystems are well‐known from the terrestrial realm, with “tiger bushe…
View article: Comment on egusphere-2023-949
Comment on egusphere-2023-949 Open
Abstract. Framework-forming cold-water corals are ecosystem engineers that build mounds in the deep-sea that can be several hundred meters high. The effect of the presence of cold-water coral mounds on their surrounding is…
View article: Rethinking tipping points in spatial ecosystems
Rethinking tipping points in spatial ecosystems Open
The theory of alternative stable states and tipping points has garnered substantial attention in the last several decades. It predicts potential critical transitions from one ecosystem state to a completely different state under increasing…
View article: Increased aridity drives post‐fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands
Increased aridity drives post‐fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands Open
Corrigendum to New Phytologist 225 (2020), 1500–1515, doi: 10.1111/nph.16252. Since its publication, the authors of Baudena et al. (2020) have identified an error for the set of parameter values representing flammability in Table 2. In thi…
View article: Comment on egusphere-2023-941
Comment on egusphere-2023-941 Open
Abstract. Internal tides are known to be an important source of mixing in the oceans, especially in the bottom boundary layer. The depth of internal-tide generation therefore seems important for benthic life and the format…
View article: Travelling waves due to negative plant-soil feedbacks in a model including tree life-stages
Travelling waves due to negative plant-soil feedbacks in a model including tree life-stages Open
The emergence and maintenance of tree species diversity in tropical forests is commonly attributed to the Janzen-Connell (JC) hypothesis, which states that growth of seedlings is suppressed in the proximity of conspecific adult trees. As a…