List of works - Max Rietkerk

A new family of standardized and symmetric indices for measuring the intensity and importance of plant neighbour effects

article

A putative mechanism for bog patterning.

scientific article

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

article

Advances in Understanding and Managing Catastrophic Ecosystem Shifts in Mediterranean Ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Antigonon leptopus invasion is associated with plant community disassembly in a Caribbean island ecosystem

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

Beyond Turing: The response of patterned ecosystems to environmental change

scientific article

Bile salts predict liver regeneration in rabbit model of portal vein embolization ⬇️

scientific article published on June 27, 2012

Bridging physics and biology: Reply to comments on "Phase separation driven by density-dependent movement: A novel mechanism for ecological patterns".

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Catastrophic Shifts in Semiarid Vegetation-Soil Systems May Unfold Rapidly or Slowly

scientific article

Catastrophic vegetation shifts and soil degradation in terrestrial grazing systems

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Changes in diatom patch-size distribution and degradation in a spatially self-organized intertidal mudflat ecosystem.

scientific article published in March 2012

Comparing Direct Abiotic Amelioration and Facilitation as Tools for Restoration of Semiarid Grasslands

scientific article published on 04 December 2008

Complexity and coexistence in a simple spatial model for arid savanna ecosystems

article

Corrigendum to “Feedbacks between hydrodynamics and cold-water coral mound development” [Deep-Sea Res. part I Vol. 178 (2021) 103641]

scientific article published in June 2022

Coupling microscale vegetation?soil water and macroscale vegetation?precipitation feedbacks in semiarid ecosystems

Cyclical succession in grazed ecosystems: the importance of interactions between different-sized herbivores and different-sized predators

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Demographic noise and resilience in a semi-arid ecosystem model

article

Differences in gypsum plant communities associated with habitat fragmentation and livestock grazing

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Drought and grazing combined: Contrasting shifts in plant interactions at species pair and community level

article

Drought sensitivity of patterned vegetation determined by rainfall-land surface feedbacks

scholarly article

Early Warning Signals for Rate-induced Critical Transitions in Salt Marsh Ecosystems

scientific article published on 05 March 2021

Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

scientific article

Effects of fire and herbivory on the stability of savanna ecosystems

article

Estuarine biofilm patterns: Modern analogues for Precambrian self‐organization

scientific article published in April 2020

Evasion of tipping in complex systems through spatial pattern formation

scientific article published in 2021

Evolution of local facilitation in arid ecosystems

scientific article

Experimental Evidence for Spatial Self-Organization and Its Emergent Effects in Mussel Bed Ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 31 October 2008)

Feedbacks between vegetation pattern and resource loss dramatically decrease ecosystem resilience and restoration potential in a simple dryland model

article

Fine-scale spatial distribution of plants and resources on a sandy soil in the Sahel

article published in 2002

Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

article

Grazing Away the Resilience of Patterned Ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

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

scientific article published on 26 September 2006

How light competition between plants affects their response to climate change

scientific article

How will increases in rainfall intensity affect semiarid ecosystems?

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Increased aridity drives post-fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Increased aridity drives post‐fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands

scientific article published in 2023

Inhibitory and toxic effects of extracellular self-DNA in litter: a mechanism for negative plant-soil feedbacks?

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

Inhibitory effects of extracellular self-DNA: a general biological process?

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

Interaction network based early-warning indicators of vegetation transitions

scientific article published in 2014

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Comment.

scientific article

Islands of fertility induce co-occurring negative and positive plant-soil feedbacks promoting coexistence

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate

article published in 2011

Local facilitation, bistability and transitions in arid ecosystems

scientific article

Long-term frequent fires do not decrease topsoil carbon and nitrogen in an Afromontane grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Modelling the effects of litter decomposition on tree diversity patterns

scientific article published in 2010

More is not necessarily better: The role of cover and spatial organization of resource sinks in the restoration of patchy drylands

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Multistability of model and real dryland ecosystems through spatial self-organization

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Negative plant soil feedback explaining ring formation in clonal plants

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

New perspectives on the use of nucleic acids in pharmacological applications: inhibitory action of extracellular self-DNA in biological systems

scholarly article by Stefano Mazzoleni et al published 2 November 2014 in Phytochemistry Reviews

Nutrients and hydrology indicate the driving mechanisms of peatland surface patterning

scientific article

Phase separation driven by density-dependent movement: A novel mechanism for ecological patterns

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

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

scientific article published on July 2013

Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems

scientific article published on 3 January 2023

Plant-plant interactions mediate the plastic and genotypic response of Plantago asiatica to CO2: an experiment with plant populations from naturally high CO2 areas.

scientific article

Positive interactions, discontinuous transitions and species coexistence in plant communities

article

Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world’s biotic carbon hotspots

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: March 2008)

Relationship between vegetation growth rates at the onset of the wet season and soil type in the Sahel of Burkina Faso: implications for resource utilisation at large scales

scholarly article by Lalit Kumar et al published March 2002 in Ecological Modelling

Resource contrast in patterned peatlands increases along a climatic gradient

scientific article

Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool

scientific article

Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

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

scientific article

Self-organized patchiness and catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

scientific article

Self‐Organization of Vegetation in Arid Ecosystems

scientific article published in 2002

Short-term effects of combined hepatic vein embolization and portal vein embolization for the induction of liver regeneration in a rabbit model

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Slowing down in spatially patterned ecosystems at the brink of collapse

scientific article published on June 2011

Soil Water Repellency: A Potential Driver of Vegetation Dynamics in Coastal Dunes

Spatial Self-Organization of Vegetation Subject to Climatic Stress-Insights from a System Dynamics-Individual-Based Hybrid Model ⬇️

scientific article

Spatial heterogeneity and irreversible vegetation change in semiarid grazing systems

scientific article published on February 2002

Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems

scientific article

Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

scientific article published on September 2007

Spatially explicit removal strategies increase the efficiency of invasive plant species control ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 November 2020

Striped pattern selection by advective reaction-diffusion systems: resilience of banded vegetation on slopes

scientific article

The ecology of scale

scientific article published in 2002

The effect of climate change on the resilience of ecosystems with adaptive spatial pattern formation

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

The influence of vegetation on soil water repellency-markers and soil hydrophobicity

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

The role of reproductive plant traits and biotic interactions in the dynamics of semi-arid plant communities

scientific article published on 25 September 2010

Tree-grass competition for soil water in arid and semiarid savannas: The role of rainfall intermittency

article

Understanding the impact of plant competition on the coupling between vegetation and the atmosphere

Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems

scientific article

List of works by Max Rietkerk

A new family of standardized and symmetric indices for measuring the intensity and importance of plant neighbour effects

A putative mechanism for bog patterning.

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

Advances in Understanding and Managing Catastrophic Ecosystem Shifts in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Antigonon leptopus invasion is associated with plant community disassembly in a Caribbean island ecosystem

Beyond Turing: The response of patterned ecosystems to environmental change

Bile salts predict liver regeneration in rabbit model of portal vein embolization ⬇️

Bridging physics and biology: Reply to comments on "Phase separation driven by density-dependent movement: A novel mechanism for ecological patterns".

Catastrophic Shifts in Semiarid Vegetation-Soil Systems May Unfold Rapidly or Slowly

Catastrophic vegetation shifts and soil degradation in terrestrial grazing systems

Changes in diatom patch-size distribution and degradation in a spatially self-organized intertidal mudflat ecosystem.

Comparing Direct Abiotic Amelioration and Facilitation as Tools for Restoration of Semiarid Grasslands

Complexity and coexistence in a simple spatial model for arid savanna ecosystems

Corrigendum to “Feedbacks between hydrodynamics and cold-water coral mound development” [Deep-Sea Res. part I Vol. 178 (2021) 103641]

Coupling microscale vegetation?soil water and macroscale vegetation?precipitation feedbacks in semiarid ecosystems

Cyclical succession in grazed ecosystems: the importance of interactions between different-sized herbivores and different-sized predators

Demographic noise and resilience in a semi-arid ecosystem model

Differences in gypsum plant communities associated with habitat fragmentation and livestock grazing

Drought and grazing combined: Contrasting shifts in plant interactions at species pair and community level

Drought sensitivity of patterned vegetation determined by rainfall-land surface feedbacks

Early Warning Signals for Rate-induced Critical Transitions in Salt Marsh Ecosystems

Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

Effects of fire and herbivory on the stability of savanna ecosystems

Estuarine biofilm patterns: Modern analogues for Precambrian self‐organization

Evasion of tipping in complex systems through spatial pattern formation

Evolution of local facilitation in arid ecosystems

Experimental Evidence for Spatial Self-Organization and Its Emergent Effects in Mussel Bed Ecosystems

Feedbacks between vegetation pattern and resource loss dramatically decrease ecosystem resilience and restoration potential in a simple dryland model

Fine-scale spatial distribution of plants and resources on a sandy soil in the Sahel

Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

Grazing Away the Resilience of Patterned Ecosystems

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

How light competition between plants affects their response to climate change

How will increases in rainfall intensity affect semiarid ecosystems?

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis

Increased aridity drives post-fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands

Increased aridity drives post‐fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands

Inhibitory and toxic effects of extracellular self-DNA in litter: a mechanism for negative plant-soil feedbacks?

Inhibitory effects of extracellular self-DNA: a general biological process?

Interaction network based early-warning indicators of vegetation transitions

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Comment.

Islands of fertility induce co-occurring negative and positive plant-soil feedbacks promoting coexistence

Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate

Local facilitation, bistability and transitions in arid ecosystems

Long-term frequent fires do not decrease topsoil carbon and nitrogen in an Afromontane grassland

Modelling the effects of litter decomposition on tree diversity patterns

More is not necessarily better: The role of cover and spatial organization of resource sinks in the restoration of patchy drylands

Multistability of model and real dryland ecosystems through spatial self-organization

Negative plant soil feedback explaining ring formation in clonal plants

New perspectives on the use of nucleic acids in pharmacological applications: inhibitory action of extracellular self-DNA in biological systems

Nutrients and hydrology indicate the driving mechanisms of peatland surface patterning

Phase separation driven by density-dependent movement: A novel mechanism for ecological patterns

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

Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems

Plant-plant interactions mediate the plastic and genotypic response of Plantago asiatica to CO2: an experiment with plant populations from naturally high CO2 areas.

Positive interactions, discontinuous transitions and species coexistence in plant communities

Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world’s biotic carbon hotspots

Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

Relationship between vegetation growth rates at the onset of the wet season and soil type in the Sahel of Burkina Faso: implications for resource utilisation at large scales

Resource contrast in patterned peatlands increases along a climatic gradient

Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool

Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction

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

Self-organized patchiness and catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

Self‐Organization of Vegetation in Arid Ecosystems

Short-term effects of combined hepatic vein embolization and portal vein embolization for the induction of liver regeneration in a rabbit model

Slowing down in spatially patterned ecosystems at the brink of collapse

Soil Water Repellency: A Potential Driver of Vegetation Dynamics in Coastal Dunes

Spatial Self-Organization of Vegetation Subject to Climatic Stress-Insights from a System Dynamics-Individual-Based Hybrid Model ⬇️

Spatial heterogeneity and irreversible vegetation change in semiarid grazing systems

Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems

Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

Spatially explicit removal strategies increase the efficiency of invasive plant species control ⬇️

Striped pattern selection by advective reaction-diffusion systems: resilience of banded vegetation on slopes

The ecology of scale

The effect of climate change on the resilience of ecosystems with adaptive spatial pattern formation

The influence of vegetation on soil water repellency-markers and soil hydrophobicity

The role of reproductive plant traits and biotic interactions in the dynamics of semi-arid plant communities