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Overview

Peter C. de Ruiter is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple dimensions within the broader fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

De Ruiter's work delves into specific subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Genetics
  • Soil Science

Key topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Peter C. de Ruiter include:

  • Advances in Understanding and Managing Catastrophic Ecosystem Shifts in Mediterranean Ecosystems, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19, 2020, SOIL
  • Energetic constraints imposed on trophic interaction strengths enhance resilience in empirical and model food webs, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Seasonal Shifts in Trophic Interaction Strength Drive Stability of Natural Food Webs, 2025, Ecology Letters
  • Coupling strength between omnivory loops and their one-species-delete subloops drives real food web stability, 2023, Theoretical Ecology

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • Xiaoxiao Li
  • Lia Hemerik
  • Wei Yang
  • Sonia Kéfi
  • Ursula Gaedke

Publication venues most commonly featuring their work include:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • SOIL
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Theoretical Ecology

Best Publications

  • Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems

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

  • Soil biodiversity for agricultural sustainability

    Lijbert Brussaard;Peter C. de Ruiter;George G. Brown

  • Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

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

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops.

    Anje-Margriet Neutel;Johan A. P. Heesterbeek;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Interactions between Aboveground and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks

    David U. Hooper;David E. Bignell;Valerie K. Brown;Lijbert Brussard

  • Energetics, Patterns of Interaction Strengths, and Stability in Real Ecosystems

    Peter C. De Ruiter;Anje Margriet Neutel;John C. Moore

  • Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Ecosystem response of pasture soil communities to fumigation-induced microbial diversity reductions: an examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship

    B. S. Griffiths;K. Ritz;Richard D. Bardgett;Roger Cook

  • Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity

    Gerlinde B. De Deyn;Ciska E. Raaijmakers;H. Rik Zoomer;Matty P. Berg

  • CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF STOICHIOMETRY

    Dag O. Hessen;Göran I. Ågren;Thomas R. Anderson;James J. Elser

  • Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities

    Eric L Berlow;Anje-Margiet Neutel;Joel E Cohen;Peter C de Ruiter

  • SPECIES RICHNESS–PRODUCTIVITY PATTERNS DIFFER BETWEEN N-, P-, AND K-LIMITED WETLANDS

    H. Olde Venterink;M. J. Wassen;A. W. M. Verkroost;P. C. De Ruiter

  • Reconciling complexity with stability in naturally assembling food webs

    Anje-Margriet Neutel;Anje-Margriet Neutel;Johan A.P. Heesterbeek;Johan van de Koppel;Guido Hoenderboom

  • TOP-DOWN IS BOTTOM-UP: DOES PREDATION IN THE RHIZOSPHERE REGULATE ABOVEGROUND DYNAMICS?

    John C. Moore;Kevin McCann;Heikki Setälä;Peter C. De Ruiter

  • Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

    Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Malte Jochum;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Simulation of nitrogen mineralization in the belowground food webs of two winter wheat fields.

    P.C. de Ruiter;J.C. Moore;K.B. Zwart;L.A. Bouwman

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

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

  • Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology

    Wim H. van der Putten;R. D. Bardgett;P. C. de Ruiter;W. H. G. Hol

  • Calculation of nitrogen mineralization in soil food webs

    P. C. De Ruiter;J. A. Van Veen;J. C. Moore;L. Brussaard

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Max Rietkerk
Max Rietkerk Utrecht University
Jaap Bloem
Jaap Bloem Wageningen University & Research
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Volkmar Wolters
Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Lia Hemerik
Lia Hemerik Wageningen University & Research
Maarten B. Eppinga
Maarten B. Eppinga University of Zurich
Martin J. Wassen
Martin J. Wassen Utrecht University
Elisa Thébault
Elisa Thébault Sorbonne University

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