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D-Index
49
Citations
22194
World Ranking
5116
National Ranking
228

Vasilis Dakos publications per year

2006: 1 publications 2007: 1 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 23 publications 2023: 21 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 27 publications
2006 2025

185 publications in total across all disciplines

Vasilis Dakos publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vasilis Dakos sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Vasilis Dakos D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vasilis Dakos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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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