Quantifying Resilience

in ecology and evolution under global environmental change

Research

 

Resilience and Tipping points

Understanding resilience and abrupt shifts in ecology and earth sciences, climate and human systems at different temporal and spatial scales

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Early-Warning Signals

Methods and tools for operationalizing resilience indicators  to quantify the risk of tipping points for research and management

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Ecological dynamics: trends and patterns

Analysis of trends and statistical patterns in ecological and environmental variables to map system vulnerability

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Eco-evolutionary tipping points

A fundamental theoretical understanding that integrates evolutionary processes in ecological models of ecosystem tipping points

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Selected publications

Full list of publications

Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world

Dakos V, Matthews B, Hendry AP, Levine J, Loeuille N, Norberg J, Nosil P, Scheffer M, De Meester L (2019). Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(3), 355–362

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Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

Dakos V, Scheffer M, van Nes EH, Brovkin V, Petoukhov V, Held H (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 105(38), 14308-14312

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Advancing our understanding of ecological stability

Kéfi S, Domínguez‐García V, Donohue I, Fontaine C, Thébault E, Dakos V (2019). Ecology Letters, 22: 1349-1356

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Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

Dakos V, Carpenter SR, Brock WA, Ellison AM, Guttal V, Ives AR, Kéfi S, Livina V, Seekell DA, van Nes EH, Scheffer M (2012) PLoS ONE 7(7): e41010

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People

We are a small team but we are always open if you want to join us for a postdoc, phd, master or short research stays.

collaborators and past lab members

 

Vasilis DAKOS

CNRS researcher

BioDICeeGitHubGooglescholar

open scholar
 

 Hsiao-Hang TAO

MarieCurie Postdoc

Hsiao is working on understanding changes in the stability of North Sea cod.

website

 

Antoine LE VILAINE

PhD student

Antoine is working on modelling seagrass ecosystems and their blue carbon potential (co-supevised with Elisa Thebault).

 

Alejandro VILORIA CANO

postdoc

Alejandro is working on the ANR-FishAtRisk project on the detection of abrupt changes in global fisheries.

FishAtRisk

 

Emilio MORA

postdoc

Emilio is working on the ANR-ENEMYCOCKTAIL project modelling multitrophic interactions to design better pest biocontrol practices.

BIODICEE

 

Krishna GIRISH

research assistant

Krishna is working on the EU-CLIMTIP project aiming to quantify species risk to extinction to future climatic tipping points using niche modelling.

BIODICEE

Latest News

Launch of EU project ClimTip

We are participating in the EU Horizon funded ClimTip project that kicked-off earlier in March 2023. The project aims to quantify the impacts of climate tipping points on Earth systems[…]

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The Global Tipping Points Report launched at COP28

The Global Tipping Points Report is the most comprehensive assessment of negative and positive tipping points ever conducted. It says humanity is currently on a disastrous trajectory. The speed of[…]

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December 12, 2023 0

Farmland practices are driving bird populations decline across Europe

Biodiversity is exposed to increasing pressure by climate and land use changes. But how are species responding to these pressures and which pressure is more dominant remain controversial questions. In[…]

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Contact

BioDICée team
Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM)
CNRS UMR 5554, Building 22, 2nd floor
Université de Montpellier – CC065,
place Eugène Bataillon
34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France

Tel: +33 4 67 14 40 81

vasilis.dakos [at] umontpellier.fr

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