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Max Rietkerk
Zoology
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Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems
Abrupt transitions leading to algal blooms are quite well known in aquatic ecosystems and have important implications for the environment. These ecosystem shifts have been largely attributed to nutrient dynami...
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Open AccessEarly Warning Signals for Rate-induced Critical Transitions in Salt Marsh Ecosystems
Intertidal ecosystems are important because of their function as coastal protection and ecological value. Sea level rise may lead to submergence of salt marshes worldwide. Salt marshes can exhibit critical tra...
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Open AccessCombined Grazing and Drought Stress Alter the Outcome of Nurse: Beneficiary Interactions in a Semi-arid Ecosystem
Positive interspecific plant–plant interactions in (semi-)arid ecosystems are crucial for supporting ecosystem diversity and stability, but how interactions respond to grazing combined with temporal variation ...
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Open AccessSoil Water Repellency: A Potential Driver of Vegetation Dynamics in Coastal Dunes
Coastal dunes are valuable and complex ecosystems, meaning that predicting their response to anthropogenic pressure is challenging. A potential driver of complexity that links soil, water, and vegetation dynam...
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Open AccessComplexity and coexistence in a simple spatial model for arid savanna ecosystems
Tree–grass coexistence is broadly observed in tropical savannas. Recent studies indicate that, in arid savannas, such coexistence is stable and related to water availability. The role of different factors (fro...
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Open AccessBistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems
A variety of patterns observed in ecosystems can be explained by resource–concentration mechanisms. A resource–concentration mechanism occurs when organisms increase the lateral flow of a resource toward them,...
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Open AccessRegular Surface Patterning of Peatlands: Confronting Theory with Field Data
Regular spatial patterns of sharply bounded ridges and hollows are frequently observed in peatlands and ask for an explanation in terms of underlying structuring processes. Simulation models suggest that spati...
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The Effects of Spatial Scale on Trophic Interactions
Food chain models have dominated empirical studies of trophic interactions in the past decades, and have lead to important insights into the factors that control ecological communities. Despite the importance ...
