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most citedHow spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems

2 citations · 2 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

nlin.AO2026

Higher-Order Competition as a Minimal Mechanism for Spatial Pattern Diversity in Population Dynamics

David Pinto-Ramos, Anudeep Surendran, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

We show that negative feedback alone generates the diversity of self-organized shapes usually attributed to scale-dependent activation-inhibition. For a broad class of kernels, pai…

q-bio.PE2026

Global remote sensing reveals vegetation clustering as a physical footprint of shifting aridity trends in drylands

David Pinto-Ramos, Marcel Gabriel Clerc, Abdelkader Makhoute +1

Due to climatic changes, excessive grazing, and deforestation, semi-arid and arid ecosystems are vulnerable to desertification and land degradation. As aridity increases, vegetatio…

q-bio.PE2025

Self-organized vegetation patterns promote persistence of plant-pollinator mutualisms under environmental stress

Matheus Bongestab, David Pinto-Ramos, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Mutualisms are key for structuring ecological communities, but they are sensitive to environmental change and fluctuations in population size. Consequently, how mutualisms achieve…

q-bio.PE2025★ 2 cited

How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems

David Pinto-Ramos, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Several theoretical models predict that spatial patterning increases ecosystem resilience. However, these predictions rely on simplifying assumptions, such as assuming isotropic an…

q-bio.PE2024

Spatial moment dynamics and biomass density equations provide complementary, yet limited, descriptions of pattern formation in individual-based simulations

Anudeep Surendran, David Pinto-Ramos, Rafael Menezes +1

Spatial patterning is common in ecological systems and has been extensively studied via different modeling approaches. Individual-based models (IBMs) accurately describe nonlinear…