Abstract Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used to better
understand and manage risks in modern cities. While methods for mapping hazard …

Ecological resilience is the ability of a system to persist in the face of perturbations. Although
resilience has been a highly influential concept, its interpretation has remained largely …

All life requires the capacity to recover from challenges that are as inevitable as they are
unpredictable. Understanding this resilience is essential for managing the health of humans …

Self-organized spatial patterns are a common feature of complex systems, ranging from
microbial communities to mussel beds and drylands. While the theoretical implications of …

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 …

A number of ecosystems can exhibit abrupt shifts between alternative stable states. Because
of their important ecological and economic consequences, recent research has focused on …

The fight against cancer has drawn researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, ranging
from molecular biology to physics, but the perspective of an ecological theorist has been …

The present theoretical framework for the analysis of pattern formation in complex systems is
mostly limited to the vicinity of fixed (global) equilibria. Here we present a new theoretical …

As climatic changes and human uses intensify, resource managers and other decision
makers are taking actions to either avoid or respond to ecosystem tipping points, or dramatic …

Sucrose is an abundant, readily available and inexpensive substrate for industrial
biotechnology processes and its use is demonstrated with much success in the production of …