BACKGROUND In the Anthropocene, there is a need to better understand the catastrophic
effects that climate and land-use change may have on ecosystems, Earth system …

Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in
particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …

By nature of their small size, dense growth and frequent need for extracellular metabolism,
microbes face persistent public goods dilemmas. Genetic assortment is the only general …

Intertidal mussels can self-organize into periodic spot, stripe, labyrinth, and gap patterns
ranging from centimeter to meter scales. The leading mathematical explanations for these …

How populations distribute in both space and time is one of the key issues in ecological
systems, which can characterize the relationship between populations, space–time structure …

Spatial self-organization of ecosystems into large-scale (from micron to meters) patterns is
an important phenomenon in ecology, enabling organisms to cope with harsh environmental …

Large-scale regular vegetation patterns are common in nature, but their causes are
disputed. Whereas recent theory focuses on scale-dependent feedbacks as a potentially …

Self-organized spatial patterns are ubiquitous in ecological systems and allow populations
to adopt non-trivial spatial distributions starting from disordered configurations. These …

Self-organized spatial patterns are increasingly recognized for their contribution to
ecosystem functioning, in terms of enhanced productivity, ecosystem stability, and species …

Local adaptation and dispersal evolution are key evolutionary processes shaping the
invasion dynamics of populations colonizing new environments. Yet their interaction is …