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Max Rietkerk
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 153
Citations - 17045
Max Rietkerk is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Spatial ecology. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 142 publications receiving 14953 citations. Previous affiliations of Max Rietkerk include Wageningen University and Research Centre & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Early-warning signals for critical transitions
Marten Scheffer,Jordi Bascompte,William A. Brock,Victor Brovkin,Stephen R. Carpenter,Vasilis Dakos,Hermann Held,Egbert H. van Nes,Max Rietkerk,George Sugihara +9 more
TL;DR: Work in different scientific fields is now suggesting the existence of generic early-warning signals that may indicate for a wide class of systems if a critical threshold is approaching.
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Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems
TL;DR: A review of recent studies on various ecosystems that link self-organized patchiness to catastrophic shifts between ecosystem states and the implications for management and recovery strategies for such ecosystems.
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Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems
Sonia Kéfi,Max Rietkerk,Concepción L. Alados,Yolanda Pueyo,Vasilios P. Papanastasis,Ahmed ElAich,Peter C. de Ruiter,Peter C. de Ruiter +7 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that patch-size distributions may be a warning signal for the onset of desertification in arid ecosystems with different grazing pressures, using both field data and a modelling approach.
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Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems
Max Rietkerk,Johan van de Koppel +1 more
TL;DR: This work provides a conceptual framework explaining how scale-dependent feedback determines regular pattern formation in ecosystems, and how this affects the response of ecosystems to global environmental change.
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Self-organization of vegetation in arid ecosystems
Max Rietkerk,Maarten C. Boerlijst,F. van Langevelde,Reinier HilleRisLambers,van de Johan Koppel,Lalit Kumar,H.H.T. Prins,A. de Roos +7 more
TL;DR: The results show that self-organized vegetation patterns observed in arid ecosystems might all be the result of spatial self-organization, caused by one single mechanism: water infiltrates faster into vegetated ground than into bare soil, leading to net displacement of surface water to vegetated patches.