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Overview

Magnus Nyström is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

Their research encompasses multiple topics, with notable focus areas such as Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Policy, Information and Cyber Security, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis.

Nyström has contributed to several scientific publications. Recent papers include:

  • The Blue Acceleration: The Trajectory of Human Expansion into the Ocean, 2020, One Earth
  • Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Response diversity as a sustainability strategy, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Adversarial Machine Learning -- Industry Perspectives, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Nyström frequently publishes in venues such as One Earth, AMBIO, arXiv (Cornell University), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Nature Sustainability.

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors including Carl Folke, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Henrik Österblom, and Anne-Sophie Crépin.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs

    T.P. Hughes;A.H. Baird;D.R. Bellwood;M. Card

  • Confronting the coral reef crisis

    D. R. Bellwood;T. P. Hughes;T. P. Hughes;C. Folke;C. Folke;M. Nyström

  • Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience

    Thomas Elmqvist;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Magnus Nyström;Garry Peterson

  • Coral reef disturbance and resilience in a human-dominated environment.

    Magnus Nyström;Carl Folke;Fredrik Moberg

  • Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources

    F. Berkes;T. P. Hughes;R. S. Steneck;J. A. Wilson

  • Reserves, Resilience and Dynamic Landscapes

    Janne Bengtsson;Per Angelstam;Thomas Elmqvist;Urban Emanuelsson

  • Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts

    Albert V. Norström;Magnus Nyström;Jerker Lokrantz;Carl Folke

  • Spatial Resilience of Coral Reefs

    Magnus Nyström;Carl Folke

  • The Blue Acceleration: The Trajectory of Human Expansion into the Ocean

    Jean-Baptiste Jouffray;Jean-Baptiste Jouffray;Robert Blasiak;Albert V. Norström;Henrik Österblom

  • Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice

    Magnus Nyström;Magnus Nyström;N. A. J. Graham;N. A. J. Graham;Jerker Lokrantz;Jerker Lokrantz;Albert V. Norström;Albert V. Norström

  • Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

    M. Nyström;J.-B. Jouffray;J.-B. Jouffray;A. V. Norström;B. Crona;B. Crona

  • Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs

    Nicholas A. J. Graham;David R. Bellwood;Joshua E. Cinner;Terry P. Hughes

  • Operationalizing resilience for adaptive coral reef management under global environmental change.

    Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Paul A. Marshall;Ameer Abdulla;Roger Beeden

  • Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Henrik Österblom;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin

  • Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems

    Magnus Nyström;Albert V. Norström;Thorsten Blenckner;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Maricela de la Torre-Castro

  • Redundancy and Response Diversity of Functional Groups: Implications for the Resilience of Coral Reefs

    Magnus Nyström

  • Coral reefs as novel ecosystems: embracing new futures

    Nicholas A. J. Graham;Joshua E. Cinner;Albert V. Norstrom;Magnus Nystrom

  • The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems

    Elizabeth Mcleod;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Peter J. Mumby;Jeffrey Maynard

  • Middlemen, a critical social-ecological link in coastal communities of Kenya and Zanzibar

    Beatrice Crona;Magnus Nyström;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Narriman Jiddawi

  • The non-linear relationship between body size and function in parrotfishes

    Jerker Lokrantz;Magnus Nyström;Matilda Thyresson;C. Johansson

  • Coral reef disturbance and resiliencein a human-dominated environment

    Magnus Nystrom;Carl Folke;Fredrik Moberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Albert V. Norström
Albert V. Norström Stockholm Resilience Centre
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom Stockholm University
Terry P. Hughes
Terry P. Hughes James Cook University
John N. Kittinger
John N. Kittinger Arizona State University
Max Troell
Max Troell Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Gareth J. Williams
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University

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