Selected publications forests

Resilience of tropical tree cover: The roles of climate, fire, and herbivory
Staal, A., van Nes, E.H., Hantson, S., Holmgren, M., Dekker, S.C., Pueyo, S., Xu, C. & Scheffer, M. (2018)
Global Change Biology 24 (11):5096-5109 [full text]

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest
Van Nes, E.H., Staal, A., Hantson, S., Holmgren, M., Pueyo, S., Bernardi, R.E., Flores, B.M., Xu, C. & Scheffer, M. (2018)
PLoS ONE 13 (1)[full text]

Floodplains as an Achilles’ heel of Amazonian forest resilience
Flores, B.M., Holmgren, M., Xu, C., van Nes, E.H., Jakovac, C.C., Mesquita, R.C.G. & Scheffer, M. (2017)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (17):4442-4446 [full text]

Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests
Verbesselt, J., Umlauf, N., Hirota, M., Holmgren, M., Van Nes, E.H., Herold, M., Zeileis, A. & Scheffer, M. (2016)
Nature Climate Change 6 (11):1028-1031 [full text]

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover
Holmgren, M., Hirota, M., Van Nes, E.H. & Scheffer, M. (2013)
Nature Climate Change 3 (8):755-758 [full text]

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions
Scheffer, M., Hirota, M., Holmgren, M., Van Nes, E.H. & Chapin, F.S. (2012)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (52):21384–21389 [full text]

Global resilience of tropical forest and savanna to critical transitions
Hirota, M., Holmgren, M., Van Nes, E.H. & Scheffer, M. (2011)
Science 334 (6053):232-235 [full text]