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2024
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64

Overview

Max Rietkerk is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecosystem dynamics and resilience. They have contributed extensively to the understanding of global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and various ecological processes.

Rietkerk's work spans several interconnected fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science

Their research covers a range of topics related to ecosystems and environmental sustainability, notably:

  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Frequent collaborators include Mara Baudena, Johan van de Koppel, Tjisse van der Heide, Martin J. Wassen, and Maarten B. Eppinga, indicating ongoing partnerships in their research endeavors.

Rietkerk has published extensively in various scientific journals and platforms. The venues where they have frequently published include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Current Biology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Rietkerk are:

  • "Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world's biotic carbon hotspots" (2022, Science)
  • "Evasion of tipping in complex systems through spatial pattern formation" (2021, Science)
  • "The effect of climate change on the resilience of ecosystems with adaptive spatial pattern formation" (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • "Resilience of vegetation to drought: Studying the effect of grazing in a Mediterranean rangeland using satellite time series" (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts" (2024, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • Early-warning signals for critical transitions

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

  • Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems

    Max Rietkerk;Stefan C. Dekker;Peter C. de Ruiter;Johan van de Koppel

  • Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

    Sonia Kéfi;Max Rietkerk;Concepción L. Alados;Yolanda Pueyo

  • Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

    Max Rietkerk;Johan van de Koppel

  • EFFECTS OF FIRE AND HERBIVORY ON THE STABILITY OF SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS

    Frank van Langevelde;Claudius A.D.M. van de Vijver;Claudius A.D.M. van de Vijver;Lalit Kumar;Lalit Kumar;Johan van de Koppel

  • Self-organization of vegetation in arid ecosystems

    M Rietkerk;MC Boerlijst;F van Langevelde;R HilleRisLambers

  • VEGETATION PATTERN FORMATION IN SEMI-ARID GRAZING SYSTEMS

    Reinier HilleRisLambers;Max Rietkerk;Frank van den Bosch;Herbert H. T. Prins

  • Catastrophic vegetation shifts and soil degradation in terrestrial grazing systems.

    van de Johan Koppel;M Rietkerk;Franz Weissing

  • Alternate stable states and threshold effects in semi-arid grazing systems.

    M.G. Rietkerk;J. van de Koppel

  • Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant-water relations research: a review

    Heidi Asbjornsen;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Maria S. Alvarado;Karin Rebel

  • Scale-dependent feedback and regular spatial patterns in young mussel beds

    Johan van de Koppel;Max Rietkerk;Norbert Dankers;Peter M. J. Herman

  • Accumulation of local pathogens: a new hypothesis to explain exotic plant invasions

    Maarten B. Eppinga;Max Rietkerk;Stefan C. Dekker;Peter C. De Ruiter

  • Experimental evidence for spatial self-organization and its emergent effects in mussel bed ecosystems.

    Johan van de Koppel;Joanna C. Gascoigne;Guy Theraulaz;Max Rietkerk

  • Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions

    Sonia Kéfi;Vasilis Dakos;Marten Scheffer;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • Slowing Down in Spatially Patterned Ecosystems at the Brink of Collapse

    Vasilis Dakos;Sonia Kéfi;Max Rietkerk;Egbert H. van Nes

  • Multiscale soil and vegetation patchiness along a gradient of herbivore impact in a semi-arid grazing system in West Africa

    Max Rietkerk;Pieter Ketner;Joep Burger;Bart Hoorens

  • Spatial heterogeneity and irreversible vegetation change in semiarid grazing systems

    Johan van de Koppel;Max Rietkerk;Frank van Langevelde;Frank van Langevelde;Lalit Kumar;Lalit Kumar

  • High solar radiation hinders tree regeneration above the alpine treeline in northern Ecuador

    Maaike Y. Bader;Isabel van Geloof;Max Rietkerk

  • Local facilitation, bistability and transitions in arid ecosystems.

    Sonia Kéfi;Max Rietkerk;Minus van Baalen;Michel Loreau

  • Phase separation explains a new class of self-organized spatial patterns in ecological systems

    Quan-Xing Liu;Arjen Doelman;Vivi Rottschäfer;Monique de Jager

  • The Dynamic Regime Concept for Ecosystem Management and Restoration

    Audrey L. Mayer;Max Rietkerk

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan C. Dekker
Stefan C. Dekker Utrecht University
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Johan van de Koppel
Johan van de Koppel Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Maarten B. Eppinga
Maarten B. Eppinga University of Zurich
Martin J. Wassen
Martin J. Wassen Utrecht University
Peter C. de Ruiter
Peter C. de Ruiter University of Amsterdam
Lalit Kumar
Lalit Kumar University of New England
Stefano Mazzoleni
Stefano Mazzoleni University of Naples Federico II
Arjen Doelman
Arjen Doelman Leiden University
Giuliano Bonanomi
Giuliano Bonanomi University of Naples Federico II

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