Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: can mathematical modeling help?

I Sudakow, C Myers, S Petrovskii, CD Sumrall… - Physics of Life …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Extinction of species, and even clades, is a normal part of the macroevolutionary process.
However, several times in Earth history the rate of species and clade extinctions increased …

Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years

R Solé, S Levin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global warming, habitat loss and overexploitation of limited resources are leading to
alarming biodiversity declines. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that display …

Phase transitions in virology

R Solé, J Sardanyés, SF Elena - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Viruses have established relationships with almost every other living organism on Earth and
at all levels of biological organization: from other viruses up to entire ecosystems. In most …

Tip** points emerge from weak mutualism in metacommunities

J Denk, O Hallatschek - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
The coexistence of obligate mutualists is often precariously close to tip** points where
small environmental changes can drive catastrophic shifts in species composition. For …

Semiclassical theory predicts stochastic ghosts scaling

J Tomás Lázaro, T Alarcón… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Slowing down occurs in dynamical systems close to bifurcations or phase transitions. The
time length (τ) of ghost transients close to a saddle-node bifurcation in deterministic systems …

[HTML][HTML] About ghost transients in spatial continuous media

À Calsina, S Cuadrado, B Vidiella… - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The impact of space on ecosystem dynamics has been a matter of debate since the dawn of
theoretical ecology. Several studies have revealed that space usually involves an increase …

Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains

B Vidiella, E Fontich, S Valverde, J Sardanyés - Theoretical Ecology, 2021‏ - Springer
Transients in ecology are extremely important since they determine how equilibria are
approached. The debate on the dynamic stability of ecosystems has been largely focused …

Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model

B Vidiella, J Sardanyés… - Royal Society open …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semiarid ecosystems are threatened by global warming due to longer dehydration times
and increasing soil degradation. Mounting evidence indicates that, given the current trends …

Dynamical mechanism behind ghosts unveiled in a map complexification

J Canela, L Alsedà, N Fagella, J Sardanyés - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Complex systems such as ecosystems, electronic circuits, lasers, or chemical reactions can
be modelled by dynamical systems which typically experience bifurcations. It is known that …

[HTML][HTML] Nonequilibrium dynamics in conservation biology: Scales, attractors and critical points

R Solé - Biological Conservation, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Preserving and restoring biodiversity is becoming a great challenge as we face a world
where planetary boundaries will likely be crossed over the following decades. Such …