Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective

M Alberti - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration

BR Silliman, MJS Hensel, JP Gibert, P Daleo, CS Smith… - Current Biology, 2024‏ - cell.com
Ecosystem restoration can increase the health and resilience of nature and humanity. As a
result, the international community is championing habitat restoration as a primary solution …

Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems

K Siteur, QX Liu, V Rottschäfer, T van der Heide… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Spatial self-organization of ecosystems into large-scale (from micron to meters) patterns is
an important phenomenon in ecology, enabling organisms to cope with harsh environmental …

Dramatic shift in the drivers of ecosystem service trade-offs across an aridity gradient: Evidence from China's Loess Plateau

B Hu, H Wu, H Han, X Cheng, F Kang - Science of the Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Increased aridity creates challenges for sustainable ecosystem management due to the
potential for trade-offs among ecosystem services. However, our understanding of how …

Fairy circles reveal the resilience of self-organized salt marshes

LX Zhao, K Zhang, K Siteur, XZ Li, QX Liu… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Spatial patterning is a fascinating theme in both theoretical and experimental ecology. It
reveals resilience and stability to withstand external disturbances and environmental …

Pattern dynamics of vegetation based on optimal control theory

LF Hou, L Li, L Chang, Z Wang, GQ Sun - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2025‏ - Springer
Vegetation pattern dynamics is a pivotal research domain in ecology, which can reveal the
impact of the non-uniform distribution of vegetation on ecosystem structure and function …

Interactions of diffusion and nonlocal delay give rise to vegetation patterns in semi-arid environments

Q Xue, C Liu, L Li, GQ Sun, Z Wang - Applied Mathematics and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Vegetation pattern is caused by local instability in phase space, which can reflect the
distribution characteristics of vegetation in the studied space. In semi-arid environment, the …

Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly

RM Callaway, E Meron - Physics of Life Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Vegetation patterning in water-limited and other resource-limited ecosystems highlights
spatial self-organization processes as potentially key drivers of community assembly. These …

Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks

MI O'Connor, AS Mori, A Gonzalez… - … of the Royal …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Feedbacks are an essential feature of resilient socio-economic systems, yet the feedbacks
between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing are not fully accounted for …

Inferring plant–plant interactions using remote sensing

BJW Chen, SN Teng, G Zheng, L Cui, S Li… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Rapid technological advancements and increasing data availability have improved the
capacity to monitor and evaluate Earth's ecology via remote sensing. However, remote …