News
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Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
Marten Scheffer has been elected today as foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of America
30 Apr 2019 -
Hothouse earth paper ranked #4 in Altmetric top 100 2018
The hothouse earth paper that was published this summer in PNAS is listed in the fourth place of the most-mentionned scholary papers on internet
03 Jan 2019 -
Perspective discussing loop analysis (Rocha et al. 2018) has been published in Science
27 Dec 2018 -
Hothouse Earth paper attracts global attention in hot summer
Our recent paper “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” attracted much attention in the hot summer
07 Sep 2018 -
Venting your emotion on Twitter could make you feel better
Preprint of article of analysis of Twitter data is published
10 Aug 2018 -
Inequality in nature and society
Paper on Inequality in nature and society published in PNAS
28 Nov 2017 -
Dutch book on ecology of ponds, ditches and lakes
Dutch book "Vijver sloot en plas" launched today. Including an app for the identification of plants and animals
08 Jun 2017 -
Review: Coral Reefs in the Antropocene
A review led by Terry Hughes came out today in Nature
01 Jun 2017 -
Floodplains as an Achilles’ heel of Amazonian forest resilience
New paper on the resilience of Amazone forest published in PNAS
11 Apr 2017 -
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award to Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer has been awarded with the Spanish BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology.
07 Feb 2017 -
What do you mean, tipping point?
A Forum article on the history and meaning of the concept "tipping point" is out.
29 Oct 2016 -
Marten Scheffer published a nice review of the book of Rinaldi in Nature online.
23 May 2016 -
Great book about modelling love dynamics by Sergio Rinaldi
This year this wonderful book appeared about modelling and bifurcation analysis of love dynamics.
21 Apr 2016 -
Review on critical slowing down in chronic diseases
Review on critical slowing down in chronic diseases is published in Critical Care Medicine
01 Apr 2016 -
Complexity theory and financial regulation
Policy forum paper about financial regulation out in Science
03 Mar 2016 -
Catalogue of abrupt shifts in climate
Paper on abrupt shifts in climate models out in PNAS
01 Mar 2016 -
Review on generic indicators of resilience
Review on resilience out in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
14 Dec 2015 -
Two PhD-positions on Analysis of Resilience and Critical Transition
Job offer for two PhD's on the CRITICS project.
08 Jul 2015 -
Self-organized fund allocation (SOFA)
Johan Bollen and Marten Scheffer wrote Dutch blog article about their self-organized fund allocation (SOFA).
22 Jun 2015 -
Causal feedbacks in climate change
Our paper "Causal feedbacks in climate change" has appeared online in Nature Climate Change
31 Mar 2015 -
Today in Science: Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems
Policy forum paper in Science about creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems
20 Mar 2015 -
Work on early warning signals highlighted in World Policy Journal
The work on early warning signals in relation to ipping points in climate is highlighed in the World Policy Journal
12 Mar 2015 -
Art-Science reflection by Marten Scheffer at the start of a Theater tour
An interview on art and science to the National Dutch Science Foundation (NWO)
20 Feb 2015 -
Detecting tipping points in mutualistic communities
A first paper on introducing the framework of measuring indicators of resilience in the context of ecological networks.
10 Dec 2014 -
Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts
A guardrail paper on the use and misuse of resilience indicators as early warnings for regime shifts.
27 Nov 2014 -
On the edge - feature article on Marten Scheffer in Science
Article about Marten Scheffer appeared today in Science
25 Sep 2014 -
Theatre tour Harry Sacksioni (with Marten Scheffer)
In 2015 Marten will join guitarist Harry Sacksioni for 20 concerts in the Dutch theatres
24 Sep 2014 -
We have uploaded a video of the theatre program "Concerted Science".
05 Sep 2014 -
Tipping points in the human intestinal ecosystem
Our Nature Communications paper "Tipping points in the human intestinal ecosystem" is out!
22 Aug 2014 -
Climate engineering reconsidered
A paper discussing climate engineering is out in Nature Climate Change
28 Jul 2014 -
The forgotten half of scientific thinking
Opinion paper of Marten Scheffer on dual thinking is out in PNAS
01 May 2014 -
Methodolgical paper on early warning signals in spatial extended systems
Our paper "Early Warning Signals of Ecological Transitions: Methods for Spatial Patterns" is published in PLoS ONE
21 Mar 2014 -
Consortium awarded: "Perturbations of system earth: reading the past"to project the future
The consortium "Netherlands Earth System Science Centre. Perturbations of system earth: reading the past to project the future" has been awarded a "NWO Gravitation grant".
27 Jan 2014 -
Sudden collapse of pollinator communities
Out paper on the effect of network architecture of plant-pollinator systems on stability is published in Ecology Letters
10 Jan 2014 -
PNAS paper on prediction of mood disorders is out
Interesting paper with psychologists and psychiatrists out on predicting depression
12 Dec 2013 -
New PhD course Modelling Critical Transitions
A course on critical transitions will be held in 17-21 Februari 2014.
19 Nov 2013 -
Special issue on early-warnings and regime shifts in journal of Theoretical Ecology
Vasilis acted as guest editor in the August special issue of a collection of papers on critical transitions
01 Sep 2013 -
Interannual climate variability and tropical tree cover
Our Nature Climate Change paper on the effect of interannual climate variability is out.
15 Aug 2013 -
Flickering prior to transition to eutrophication
"This study uses long-term data from a real system, a Chinese lake, to show that flickering can be observed and that it occurs up to 20 years before a critical transition" from Editor's summary in Nature
03 Jan 2013 -
Thresholds for boreal biome transitions
Our PNAS paper on boreal biome shifts appeared today in the online edition
11 Dec 2012 -
New method for detecting causality
George Sugihara has published a new method for detecting causality in time series
12 Nov 2012 -
KNAW Colloquium and Masterclass successfully completed!
The 3 day colloquium and masterclass we put together in Amsterdam last week was a great event for SparcS.
21 Oct 2012 -
Paper on Anticipating Critical Transitions just published in Science today!
Last year's workshop with a multidisciplinary team of people resulted in today's published paper in Science.
19 Oct 2012 -
Art movie of Tone Bjordam uploaded
The full movie "Critical Transitions" by Tone Bjordam is now uploaded.
14 Oct 2012 -
KNAW Colloquium on Early Warning Signals
On the 10th and 11th of October 2012 we are organizing the colloquium: 'Early-warning signals for critical transitions: bridging the gap between theory and practice'
01 Oct 2012 -
Early Warning Signals Toolbox online
This newly developed web-based toolbox combines methods, case studies, and news on early-warning signals.
30 Sep 2012 -
Effects of diversity on resilience - PLoS ONE paper
In this paper we show how a more diverse ecosystem can be more resilient to regime shifts
28 Sep 2012 -
Living on borrowed time - TREE publication online
In this paper we show that critical transitions can sometimes unfold slowly. We discuss the implications for management.
28 Sep 2012 -
Interview Prof. Hughes on corals
Interesting interview on the future of the Great Barrier Reef
26 Sep 2012 -
KNAW Masterclass Early-warning signals for critical transitions
12 October 2012 we organize the KNAW masterclass "Early-warning signals for critical transitions - Bridging the gap between theory and practice"
19 Sep 2012 -
PloS ONE paper out - Methods for time series
In this paper we explain the current methods for detecting early warning signals in time series. It includes R code.
19 Sep 2012 -
Tresholds for catastrophic shifts
Tresholds for catastrophic shifts a lecture by Marten Scheffer at the Stockholm Resilience center (2007)
01 Sep 2012