ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems.
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- Self-organized hummock-hollow patterns redistribute salinity stress in coastal meadows.Science advances · 2026Article
- Climatic Legacies Drive Spatial Aggregation of Plants in Drylands.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Fuel availability versus flammability: divergent fire controls across Eurasian drylands.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Large-scale experimental evaluation of woody plant removal in desert grassland: Restoration, novelty, or degradation?Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
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- Causes and consequences of disordered hyperuniformity in global drylands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Mechanisms causing the transition between spatial pattern long transients.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Spatial and temporal scale-dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Tracking tree demography and forest dynamics at scale using remote sensing.The New phytologist · 2024Article
- Lineages of Fractal Genera Comprise the 88-Million-Year Steel Evolutionary Spine of the Ecosphere.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
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 these patterns for ecosystem-level processes, such as functioning and resilience, have been extensively studied, empirical evidence remains scarce. To address this gap, we analyzed global drylands along an aridity gradient using remote sensing, field data, and modeling. We found that the spatial structure of the vegetation strengthens as aridity increases, which is associated with the maintenance of a high level of soil multifunctionality, even as aridity levels rise up to a certain threshold. The combination of these results with those of two individual-based models indicate that self-organized vegetation patterns not only form in response to stressful environmental conditions but also provide drylands with the ability to adapt to changing conditions while maintaining their functioning, an adaptive capacity which is lost in degraded ecosystems. Self-organization thereby plays a vital role in enhancing the resilience of drylands. Overall, our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between spatial vegetation patterns and dryland resilience. They also represent a significant step forward in the development of indicators for ecosystem resilience, which are critical tools for managing and preserving these valuable ecosystems in a warmer and more arid world.
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