[HTML][HTML] Network resilience

X Liu, D Li, M Ma, BK Szymanski, HE Stanley, J Gao - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling tumors as complex ecosystems

G Aguadé-Gorgorió, ARA Anderson, R Solé - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Many cancers resist therapeutic intervention. This is fundamentally related to intratumor
heterogeneity: multiple cell populations, each with different phenotypic signatures, coexist …

Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years

R Solé, S Levin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global warming, habitat loss and overexploitation of limited resources are leading to
alarming biodiversity declines. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that display …

Harnessing tipping points in complex ecological networks

J Jiang, A Hastings, YC Lai - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Complex and nonlinear ecological networks can exhibit a tipping point at which a transition
to a global extinction state occurs. Using real-world mutualistic networks of pollinators and …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology for terraformation lessons from mars, earth, and the microbiome

N Conde-Pueyo, B Vidiella, J Sardanyés, M Berdugo… - life, 2020 - mdpi.com
What is the potential for synthetic biology as a way of engineering, on a large scale, complex
ecosystems? Can it be used to change endangered ecological communities and rescue …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying regime shifts, transients and late warning signals for proactive ecosystem management

J Sardanyés, F Ivančić, B Vidiella - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation Biology fosters the study of Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity aiming at
protecting species and their habitats from menaces causing the erosion of biotic interactions …

Biodiversity as a firewall to engineered microbiomes for restoration and conservation

V Maull, R Solé - Royal Society open science, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The possibility of abrupt transitions threatens to poise ecosystems into irreversibly degraded
states. Synthetic biology has recently been proposed to prevent them from crossing tipping …

Alternative tree-cover states of dryland ecosystems: Inconsistencies between global and continental scales

L Ma, L Yang, Q Chang, S Wang, C Guan… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dryland ecosystems are complex systems that can exhibit alternative tree-cover states,
making conservation and restoration efforts challenging. However, our understanding of …

Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model

B Vidiella, J Sardanyés… - Royal Society open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semiarid ecosystems are threatened by global warming due to longer dehydration times
and increasing soil degradation. Mounting evidence indicates that, given the current trends …

Semiclassical theory predicts stochastic ghosts scaling

J Tomás Lázaro, T Alarcón… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Slowing down occurs in dynamical systems close to bifurcations or phase transitions. The
time length (τ) of ghost transients close to a saddle-node bifurcation in deterministic systems …