3 papers
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
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…