Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

Unexpected sudden catastrophic shifts may occur in ecosystems, with concomitant losses or
gains of ecological and economic resources. Such shifts have been theoretically attributed …

Localized ecological interactions can generate striking large-scale spatial patterns in
ecosystems through spatial self-organization. Possible mechanisms include oscillating …

Aims The field of ecohydrology is providing new theoretical frameworks and methodological
approaches for understanding the complex interactions and feedbacks between vegetation …

Research on the coupling of soil, vegetation, and hydrological processes is not only a
research hotspot in disciplines such as pedology, ecohydrology and Earth system science …

Throughout the Holocene, northern peatlands have both accumulated carbon and emitted
methane. Their impact on climate radiative forcing has been the net of cooling (persistent …

The postglacial development of peatland systems has had a strong influence on the global
carbon cycle. Peatland effects on carbon cycling involve changes in both large‐scale …

Peatland carbon and water cycling are tightly coupled, so dynamic modeling of peat
accumulation over decades to millennia should account for carbon-water feedbacks. We …

Spatial self-organization is the main theoretical explanation for the global occurrence of
regular or otherwise coherent spatial patterns in ecosystems. Using mussel beds as a model …

The use of spatially explicit models (SEMs) in ecology has grown enormously in the past two
decades. One major advancement has been that fine-scale details of landscapes, and of …