Complexity Explorer Santa Fe Institute

ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE & PERSISTENCE

 

OVERVIEW & SYNTHESIS

Kéfi, S., Domínguez-García, V., Donohue, I., Fontaine, C., Thébault, E., & Dakos, V. (2019). Advancing our understanding of ecological stability. Ecology Letters, 22(9), 1349-1356.

O'Connor, M. I., Pennell, M. W., Altermatt, F., Matthews, B., Melián, C. J., & Gonzalez, A. (2019). Principles of ecology revisited: Integrating information and ecological theories for a more unified science. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 219.

 

CORE TOPICS

Self-Organization

Kéfi, S., Génin, A., Garcia-Mayor, A., Guirado, E., Cabral, J. S., Berdugo, M., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2024). Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(6), e2305153121.

Scaling & Resource Limitation

Kempes, C. P., West, G. B., Crowell, K., & Girvan, M. (2011). Predicting maximum tree heights and other traits from allometric scaling and resource limitations. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20551.

Kempes, C. P., Dutkiewicz, S., & Follows, M. J. (2012). Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(2), 495-500.

Lafferty, K. D., DeLeo, G., Briggs, C. J., Dobson, A. P., Gross, T., & Kuris, A. M. (2015). A general consumer-resource population model. Science, 349(6250), 854-857.

Yeakel, J. D., Kempes, C. P., & Redner, S. (2018). Dynamics of starvation and recovery predict extinction risk and both Damuth’s law and Cope’s rule. Nature Communications, 9(1), 657.

Metabolism

Gillooly, J. F., Brown, J. H., West, G. B., Savage, V. M., & Charnov, E. L. (2001). Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate. Science, 293(5538), 2248-2251.

López-Urrutia, Á., San Martin, E., Harris, R. P., & Irigoien, X. (2006). Scaling the metabolic balance of the oceans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(23), 8739-8744.

Biodiversity

Loreau, M. (2022). Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: New theoretical insights. In M. Loreau, A. Hector, & F. Isbell (Eds.), The Ecological and Societal Consequences of Biodiversity Loss (pp. 147–166). ISTE.

Grady, J. M., Maitner, B. S., Winter, A. S., Kaschner, K., Tittensor, D. P., Record, S., ... & Brown, J. H. (2019). Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators. Science, 363(6425), eaat4220.

Ecological Networks: Food Webs

Dunne, J. A., Labandeira, C. C., & Williams, R. J. (2014). Highly resolved early Eocene food webs show development of modern trophic structure after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1782), 20133280.

Dunne, J. A., Maschner, H., Betts, M. W., Huntly, N., Russell, R., Williams, R. J., & Wood, S. A. (2016). The roles and impacts of human hunter-gatherers in North Pacific marine food webs. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 21179.

Crabtree, S. A., Bird, D. W., & Bird, R. B. (2019). Subsistence transitions and the simplification of ecological networks in the Western Desert of Australia. Human Ecology, 47, 165-177.

Dobson, A. P., Hutchinson, M. C., & Batterman, S. A. (2023). Plant communities and food webs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1253084.

Tipping Points & State Transitions

Kéfi, S., Saade, C., Berlow, E. L., Cabral, J. S., & Fronhofer, E. A. (2022). Scaling up our understanding of tipping points. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1857), 20210386.

Aguadé-Gorgorió, G., Arnoldi, J. F., Barbier, M., & Kéfi, S. (2024). A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities. Ecology Letters, 27(4), e14413.

Long, C., Deng, J., Nguyen, J., Liu, Y. Y., Alm, E. J., Solé, R., & Saavedra, S. (2024). Structured community transitions explain the switching capacity of microbial systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(6), e2312521121.

Disease, Immunity & Adaptation

Almberg, E. S., Cross, P. C., Dobson, A. P., Smith, D. W., Metz, M. C., Stahler, D. R., & Hudson, P. J. (2015). Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore. Ecology Letters, 18(7), 660-667.

Brandell, E. E., Dobson, A. P., Hudson, P. J., Cross, P. C., & Smith, D. W. (2021). A metapopulation model of social group dynamics and disease applied to Yellowstone wolves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(10), e2020023118.

Cubaynes, S., Brandell, E. E., Stahler, D. R., Smith, D. W., Almberg, E. S., Schindler, S., ... & Coulson, T. (2022). Disease outbreaks select for mate choice and coat color in wolves. Science, 378(6617), 300-303.

Kauffman, S. A., & Weinberger, E. D. (1989). The NK model of rugged fitness landscapes and its application to maturation of the immune response. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 141(2), 211-245.

Coastal Change in Subarctic Canada

Leblanc, M. L., O'Connor, M. I., Kuzyk, Z. Z. A., Noisette, F., Davis, K. E., Rabbitskin, E., ... & Humphries, M. M. (2023). Limited recovery following a massive seagrass decline in subarctic eastern Canada. Global Change Biology, 29(2), 432-450.

Fink-Mercier, C., Leblanc, M. L., Noisette, F., O'Connor, M., Idrobo, J., Bélanger, S., ... & Kuzyk, Z. Z. A. (2024). Cree-driven community-partnered research on coastal ecosystem change in subarctic Canada: A multiple knowledge approach. Arctic Science. 10(4), 731–748

The Serengeti

Dobson, A. P. (2009). Food-web structure and ecosystem services: Insights from the Serengeti. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1524), 1665-1682.

Dobson, A. P., Borner, M., Sinclair, A. R. E., Hudson, P. J., Anderson, T. M., Bigurube, G., ... & Wolanski, E. (2010). Road will ruin Serengeti. Nature, 467, 272-273.

Holdo, R. M., Fryxell, J. M., Sinclair, A. R. E., Dobson, A., & Holt, R. D. (2011). Predicted impact of barriers to migration on the Serengeti wildebeest population. PLoS ONE, 6(1), e16370.

Archaeoecology

Crabtree, S. A., & Dunne, J. A. (2022). Towards a science of archaeoecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 37(11), 976-984.

 

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Urban Systems

Bettencourt, L. M. A. (2013). The origins of scaling in cities. Science, 340(6139), 1438-1441.

Stier, A. J., Sajjadi, S., Karimi, F., Bettencourt, L. M. A., & Berman, M. G. (2024). Implicit racial biases are lower in more populous, more diverse, and less segregated US cities. Nature Communications, 15(1), 961.

Somatic Evolution & Cancer

Noble, R., Kaltz, O., & Hochberg, M. E. (2015). Peto's paradox and human cancers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1673), 20150104.

Hochberg, M. E., & Noble, R. J. (2017). A framework for how environment contributes to cancer risk. Ecology Letters, 20(2), 117-134.

Tomasetti, C., Li, L., & Vogelstein, B. (2017). Stem cell divisions, somatic mutations, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention. Science, 355(6331), 1330-1334.