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Overview

Egbert H. van Nes is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Egbert H. van Nes has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Nature Communications

The following are some recent papers authored or co-authored by Egbert H. van Nes:

  • Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience, 2021, Science
  • Global inequality remotely sensed, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Dynamical Systems View of Psychiatric Disorders-Theory, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Anticipating the occurrence and type of critical transitions, 2023, Science Advances

Throughout their career, Egbert H. van Nes has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Marten Scheffer
  • Ingrid A. van de Leemput
  • Clara Delecroix
  • Chi Xu
  • Ronny Rotbarth

Best Publications

  • Early-warning signals for critical transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Jordi Bascompte;William A. Brock;Victor Brovkin

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Terry P. Hughes;Michele L. Barnes;David R. Bellwood;Joshua E. Cinner

  • Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

    Marina Hirota;Milena Holmgren;Egbert H. Van Nes;Marten Scheffer

  • Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

    Vasilis Dakos;Marten Scheffer;Egbert H. van Nes;Victor Brovkin

  • Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data

    Vasilis Dakos;Vasilis Dakos;Stephen R. Carpenter;William A. Brock;Aaron M. Ellison

  • Shallow lakes theory revisited: various alternative regimes driven by climate, nutrients, depth and lake size

    Marten Scheffer;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Ups and Downs in the Ocean: Effects of Biofouling on Vertical Transport of Microplastics

    Merel Kooi;Egbert H. van Nes;Marten Scheffer;Albert A. Koelmans

  • On the Dominance of filamentous cyanobacteria in shallow, turbid lakes

    Marten Scheffer;Sergio Rinaldi;Alessandra Gragnani;Luuc R. Mur

  • Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

    Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;John N. Klironomos;Janneke HilleRisLambers;Linda L. Kinkel

  • Lake restoration: successes, failures and long‐term effects

    Martin Søndergaard;Erik Jeppesen;Torben L. Lauridsen;Christian Skov

  • Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species

    Marten Scheffer;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Slow recovery from perturbations as a generic indicator of a nearby catastrophic shift.

    Egbert H. van Nes;Marten Scheffer

  • Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts

    Vasilis Dakos;Stephen R. Carpenter;Egbert H. van Nes;Marten Scheffer

  • Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition

    Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Vasilis Dakos;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system

    Annelies J. Veraart;Elisabeth J. Faassen;Vasilis Dakos;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community

    Elisa Benincà;Jef Huisman;Reinhard Heerkloss;Klaus D Jöhnk;Klaus D Jöhnk

  • Floating plant dominance as a stable state

    Marten Scheffer;Sándor Szabó;Alessandra Gragnani;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns.

    Sonia Kéfi;Vishwesha Guttal;William A. Brock;William A. Brock;Stephen R. Carpenter;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

    Terry P. Hughes;Christina Linares;Vasilis Dakos;Vasilis Dakos;Ingrid A. van de Leemput

Frequent Co-Authors

Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Vasilis Dakos
Vasilis Dakos University of Montpellier
Milena Holmgren
Milena Holmgren Wageningen University & Research
Wolf M. Mooij
Wolf M. Mooij Wageningen University & Research
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarian Kosten
Sarian Kosten Radboud University
Tjisse van der Heide
Tjisse van der Heide Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters Wageningen University & Research
William A. Brock
William A. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier

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