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List of works by Egbert H. van Nes

A Changing Number of Alternative States in the Boreal Biome: Reproducibility Risks of Replacing Remote Sensing Products

scientific article published in 2015

A Theory for Cyclic Shifts between Alternative States in Shallow Lakes

scientific article published in February 2007

A global climate niche for giant trees

scientific article published on 15 April 2018

A simple equation for describing the temperature dependent growth of free-floating macrophytes

scientific article published in February 2006

A strategy to improve the contribution of complex simulation models to ecological theory

scientific article published in July 2005

Abrupt Climate Change in an Oscillating World.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Abrupt regime shifts in space and time along rivers and connected lake systems

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

Advantages of concurrent use of multiple software frameworks in water quality modelling using a database approach

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Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ecosystems

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Alternative Stable States Driven by Density-Dependent Toxicity

scientific article published on 16 July 2010

Alternative attractors may boost uncertainty and sensitivity in ecological models

scientific article published in January 2003

Anticipating critical transitions

scientific article published on October 2012

Anticipating the occurrence and type of critical transitions

scientific article published on 6 January 2023

Aquatic macrophytes: restore, eradicate or is there a compromise?

scientific article published in April 2002

Assembling the pieces of Lake Victoria's many food webs: Reply to Kolding

scientific article published in April 2013

Bistability, Spatial Interaction, and the Distribution of Tropical Forests and Savannas

Can overwintering versus diapausing strategy in Daphnia determine match-mismatch events in zooplankton-algae interactions?

scientific article

Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? a test across global drylands.

scientific article published on September 2015

Causal feedbacks in climate change

scholarly article by Egbert H. van Nes et al published 30 March 2015 in Nature Climate Change

Challenges and opportunities for integrating lake ecosystem modelling approaches

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Changing weather conditions and floating plants in temperate drainage ditches

scientific article published on 8 March 2013

Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community

scientific article published in February 2008

Charisma: a spatial explicit simulation model of submerged macrophytes

scientific article published in January 2003

Climate and conservation. Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems

scientific article

Climate reddening increases the chance of critical transitions

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Climate-dependent CO2emissions from lakes

scientific article published on 8 May 2010

Climbing Escher's stairs: A way to approximate stability landscapes in multidimensional systems

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Collapse and reorganization of a food web of Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria

scientific article published in January 2012

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

scientific article

Corrigendum to “The structuring role of submerged macrophytes in a large subtropical shallow lake: Clear effects on water chemistry and phytoplankton structure community along a vegetated-pelagic gradient” [Limnologica (2018) 142–154]

scientific article published in July 2018

Corrigendum: Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system

scientific article published in Nature

Coupled human and natural system dynamics as key to the sustainability of Lake Victoria’s ecosystem services

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Creating a safe operating space for wetlands in a changing climate

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

Data-directed modelling of Daphnia dynamics in a long-term micro-ecosystem experiment

scientific article published in February 2009

Does predator interference cause alternative stable states in multispecies communities?

scientific article published on June 23, 2012

Dominance of charophytes in eutrophic shallow lakes—when should we expect it to be an alternative stable state?

scientific article published in April 2002

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

scientific article published on March 2012

Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns

scientific article

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

scientific article

Ecosystem engineering by seagrasses interacts with grazing to shape an intertidal landscape

scientific article

Effect of temperature and nutrients on the competition between free-floating Salvinia natans and submerged Elodea nuttallii in mesocosms

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Effects of Submerged Vegetation on Water Clarity Across Climates

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Effects of commercial fishery on the bream population and the expansion of Chara aspera in Lake Veluwe

scientific article published in October 2004

Effects of food web complexity on top-down control in tropical lakes

scientific article published in January 2016

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

scientific article published on 2 June 2013

Emergent neutrality leads to multimodal species abundance distributions

scientific article published on 7 February 2012

Erratum

scientific article published in October 2007

Erratum to: Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Evaluating the performance of multivariate indicators of resilience loss

scientific article

Evolution of blind beetles in isolated aquifers: a test of alternative modes of speciation

scientific article

Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience

scientific article published in 2021

Finding the direction of lowest resilience in multivariate complex systems

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

scientific article

Flickering as an early warning signal

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

Floating plant dominance as a stable state

scholarly article

Floodplains as an Achilles' heel of Amazonian forest resilience

scientific article

Foreseeing the future of mutualistic communities beyond collapse

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Global resilience of tropical forest and savanna to critical transitions

scientific article published on October 2011

Growth limitation of Lemna minor due to high plant density

scientific article published in March 2005

How to Break the Cycle of Low Workforce Diversity: A Model for Change

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Hysteresis in an experimental phytoplankton population

scientific article published on 13 April 2015

Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

IPH-TRIM3D-PCLake: A three-dimensional complex dynamic model for subtropical aquatic ecosystems

scientific article published in November 2009

Inequality in nature and society

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Interannual variability in species composition explained as seasonally entrained chaos

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Large species shifts triggered by small forces

scientific article published on 24 June 2004

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

scientific article

Local Facilitation May Cause Tipping Points on a Landscape Level Preceded by Early-Warning Indicators

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate

article published in 2011

Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies

scientific article published on 28 April 2021

Lower biodiversity of native fish but only marginally altered plankton biomass in tropical lakes hosting introduced piscivorous Cichla cf. ocellaris

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Macrophyte–phytoplankton interactions: The relative importance of allelopathy versus other factors

scholarly article by Gabi Mulderij et al published May 2007 in Ecological Modelling

Managed water levels and the expansion of emergent vegetation along a lakeshore

scientific article published in May 2004

Mechanisms for marine regime shifts: Can we use lakes as microcosms for oceans?

scientific article published in February 2004

Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data

scientific article

Modelling spatial heterogeneity of phytoplankton in Lake Mangueira, a large shallow subtropical lake in South Brazil

scientific article published in November 2008

Modelling the clonal growth of the rhizomatous macrophyte Potamogeton perfoliatus

scientific article published in 2006

Modelling the effects of diving ducks on zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha in lakes

scientific article published in March 2008

Monitoring Resilience in Bursts

scientific article published on 13 October 2023

Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs

scientific article published on 16 April 2016

Neutral competition boosts cycles and chaos in simulated food webs

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Northern expansion is not compensating for southern declines in North American boreal forests

scientific article published on 8 June 2023

Omnivory by Planktivores Stabilizes Plankton Dynamics, but May Either Promote or Reduce Algal Biomass

scientific article published in April 2010

Oscillation of a shallow lake ecosystem upon reduction in external phosphorus load

scientific article published in November 2005

PISCATOR, an individual-based model to analyze the dynamics of lake fish communities

scientific article published in July 2002

Perpest model, a case-based reasoning approach to predict ecological risks of pesticides

scientific article

Positive Feedbacks in Seagrass Ecosystems: Implications for Success in Conservation and Restoration

scientific article published on 20 October 2007

Positive feedbacks in seagrass ecosystems--evidence from large-scale empirical data

scientific article

Potential effects of climate change and eutrophication on a large subtropical shallow lake

scientific article published in November 2011

Predicting the potential establishment of two insect species using the simulation environment INSIM (INsect SIMulation)

article by Lia Hemerik & Egbert H. van Nes published 28 April 2016 in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Pulse-Driven Loss of Top-Down Control: The Critical-Rate Hypothesis

Quantifying resilience of humans and other animals

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

Rare, Intense, Big fires dominate the global tropics under drier conditions

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system

scientific article published on 25 December 2011

Reduced top–down control of phytoplankton in warmer climates can be explained by continuous fish reproduction

article

Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states

scientific article published in September 2016

Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states: reply

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests

Repeated parallel evolution reveals limiting similarity in subterranean diving beetles

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Reply to Schöngart et al.: Forest resilience variation across Amazonian floodplains

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

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

scientific article

Resilience of alternative states in spatially extended ecosystems

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Resilience of tropical tree cover: The roles of climate, fire, and herbivory

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Resonance of plankton communities with temperature fluctuations

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

scientific article published on February 2012

Seeing a global web of connected systems

scientific article

Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species

scholarly article

Serving many at once: How a database approach can create unity in dynamical ecosystem modelling

scientific article published in November 2014

Shallow lakes theory revisited: various alternative regimes driven by climate, nutrients, depth and lake size

scientific article published in June 2007

Slow Recovery from Local Disturbances as an Indicator for Loss of Ecosystem Resilience

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Slow recovery from perturbations as a generic indicator of a nearby catastrophic shift

scientific article published on 17 April 2007

Slowing Down of Recovery as Generic Risk Marker for Acute Severity Transitions in Chronic Diseases

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

scientific article

Slowing down in spatially patterned ecosystems at the brink of collapse

scientific article published on June 2011

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity-productivity pattern

scientific article

Spatial correlation as an early warning signal for transitions in ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Spatial self-organized patterning in seagrasses along a depth gradient of an intertidal ecosystem

scientific article published in February 2010

Statistical indicators of Arctic sea-ice stability – prospects and limitations

scientific article

Superorganisms or loose collections of species? A unifying theory of community patterns along environmental gradients

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Synergistic effects of drought and deforestation on the resilience of the south-eastern Amazon rainforest

scientific article published in June 2015

Temperate forest and open landscapes are distinct alternative states as reflected in canopy height and tree cover

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

The Evolution of Functionally Redundant Species; Evidence from Beetles

scientific article published in 2015

The mystery of missing trubs revisited: a response to McGlone et al. and Qian and Ricklefs

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

The paradox of the clumps mathematically explained

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

The resilience and resistance of an ecosystem to a collapse of diversity

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

The structuring role of submerged macrophytes in a large subtropical shallow lake: Clear effects on water chemistry and phytoplankton structure community along a vegetated-pelagic gradient

scientific article published in March 2018

The sudden collapse of pollinator communities

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions

scientific article

Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data

scientific article

Toward a unifying theory of biodiversity

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Toxicity of reduced nitrogen in eelgrass (Zostera marina) is highly dependent on shoot density and pH

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

Understanding the critical rate of environmental change for ecosystems, cyanobacteria as an example

scientific article published on 18 June 2021

Ups and Downs in the Ocean: Effects of Biofouling on Vertical Transport of Microplastics

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Was Lates late? A null model for the Nile perch boom in Lake Victoria

scientific article

What Do You Mean, 'Tipping Point'?

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

What minimal models cannot tell: a comment on "A model of phytoplankton blooms".

scientific article published on 20 May 2004

Why trees and shrubs but rarely trubs?

scientific article published on 17 June 2014