The Resilience project has produced a substantial body of scientific output, reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications and preprints spanning ecology, mathematics, and earth system science. These works explore vegetation pattern formation, ecosystem resilience, and climate tipping points across diverse environments.
Among the project’s outputs are Vegetation pattern formation and community assembly under drying climate trends by Ferré, Pavithra, Bera, Uecker, and Meron (Chaos, 2025); Litter quality outweighs climate as a driver of decomposition across the tundra biome by Haydn, Myers-Smith, Borderieux, and colleagues (2025); Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass by Höfer, de Groot, Scanlan, and colleagues (Oecologia, 2025); and Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points by Rietkerk, Skiba, Weinans, and colleagues (Nature Climate Change, 2025).
Further contributions include Tree seed dispersal modes affect forest resilience along savanna-forest boundaries by van der Rhee, Barkema, and Staal (Environmental Research Letters, 2025); Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland by van der Voort, Baudena, Meron, Rietkerk, and Doelman (Environmental Research Letters, 2025); and Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points by Yi, Rietkerk, Anderies, Chen, Dakos, Ritchie, Rocha, Milkoreit, and Quinn (Environmental Research Letters, 2025).
Additional studies address theoretical and mathematical aspects of pattern formation and ecosystem dynamics, including Can spatial self-organisation inhibit evolutionary adaptation? by Bera, Tzuk, Bennett, Dieckmann, and Meron (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025); Indications of ongoing noise-tipping of a bifurcation river system by Blom, Arbós, Chowdhury, Doelman, Rietkerk, and Schielen (Geophysical Research Letters, 2024); Travelling pulses on three spatial scales in a Klausmeier-type vegetation-autotoxicity model by Carter, Doelman, Iuorio, and Veerman (Nonlinearity, 2024); and Deformations of acid-mediated invasive tumors in a model with Allee effect by Carter, Doelman, van Heister, Levy, Maini, Okey, and Yeung (arXiv, 2024).
The project’s reach also extends to coastal and ecosystem-scale dynamics, as seen in A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts by Lansu, Reijers, Höfer, and colleagues (Nature Communications, 2024); Traveling vegetation-herbivore waves can sustain ecosystems threatened by droughts and population growth by Singha, Uecker, and Meron (arXiv, 2024); Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration by Zhang, Yi, Destouni, and colleagues (Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024); and Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa by Zwaan, Staal, te Beest, and Rietkerk (Environmental Research, accepted 2024).
For more details, please visit the project’s website.
