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World Ranking
5114
National Ranking
228

Overview

Vasilis Dakos is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, and Environmental Engineering. Their research addresses various aspects of ecosystem dynamics and resilience, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, sustainability and ecological systems analysis, plant and animal studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and land use and ecosystem services.

The scientist has contributed to the academic community through publications in several journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 5, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 4, Environmental Research Letters with 3, and Science Advances with 2.

Recent papers by Vasilis Dakos cover ecological resilience, climate change impacts, and global drylands, among other topics. Notable publications include:

  • "Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change," 2022, Nature
  • "Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Ecological resilience: what to measure and how," 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Prevalence and drivers of abrupt vegetation shifts in global drylands," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Regime shifts, trends, and variability of lake productivity at a global scale," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vasilis Dakos has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Sonia Kéfi (8 collaborations), Vincent Devictor (7), Chih-hao Hsieh (5), Stanislas Rigal (4), and Egbert H. van Nes (4).

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

  • Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

    Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Maja Schlüter;Maja Schlüter;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Erin L. Bohensky

  • 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

  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

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

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

  • Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state

    Rong Wang;John A. Dearing;Peter G. Langdon;Enlou Zhang

  • 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

  • Climate models predict increasing temperature variability in poor countries.

    Sebastian Bathiany;Vasilis Dakos;Marten Scheffer;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

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  • 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

  • Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world.

    Vasilis Dakos;Blake Matthews;Andrew P. Hendry;Jonathan Levine

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

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

  • Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts

    Vasilis Dakos;Egbert H. van Nes;Raúl Donangelo;Hugo Fort

  • Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

    Vasilis Dakos;Egbert H. van Nes;Paolo D'Odorico;Marten Scheffer

  • Early warning of climate tipping points from critical slowing down: comparing methods to improve robustness

    T. M. Lenton;T. M. Lenton;V. N. Livina;V. Dakos;E. H. van Nes

  • 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

  • Advancing our understanding of ecological stability.

    Sonia Kéfi;Virginia Domínguez-García;Ian Donohue;Colin Fontaine

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities

    Vasilis Dakos;Jordi Bascompte

Frequent Co-Authors

Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Egbert H. van Nes
Egbert H. van Nes Wageningen University & Research
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy M. Lenton
Timothy M. Lenton University of Exeter
William A. Brock
William A. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jordi Bascompte
Jordi Bascompte University of Zurich
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton
Miquel Lürling
Miquel Lürling Wageningen University & Research
Xiangdong Yang
Xiangdong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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