ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Population dynamics of synthetic terraformation motifs.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Synthetic horizontal gene transfer for ecosystem restoration.Biology direct · 2026Article
- Eco-Inspired terraform networks emerge from material self-organization.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Biodiversity as a firewall to engineered microbiomes for restoration and conservation.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Network-level containment of single-species bioengineering.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Ecological firewalls for synthetic biology.iScience · 2022Article
- Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives.mSystems · 2020Review
- Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Bottom-Up Approaches to Synthetic Cooperation in Microbial Communities.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Synthetic Mutualism and the Intervention Dilemma.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Exploiting delayed transitions to sustain semiarid ecosystems after catastrophic shifts.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands.Microbial biotechnology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Ecosystems are complex systems, currently experiencing several threats associated with global warming, intensive exploitation and human-driven habitat degradation. Because of a general presence of multiple stable states, including states involving population extinction, and due to the intrinsic nonlinearities associated with feedback loops, collapse in ecosystems could occur in a catastrophic manner. It has been recently suggested that a potential path to prevent or modify the outcome of these transitions would involve designing synthetic organisms and synthetic ecological interactions that could push these endangered systems out of the critical boundaries. In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the simplest mathematical models associated with four classes of ecological engineering designs, named
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