Max Rietkerk

Hatch (Canada) — Canada

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

61h-index20.0kcitations225works8.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecosystem dynamics and resilience(115), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(90), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(28), Land Use and Ecosystem Services(24), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis(18)

Publications224 total

Rethinking Tipping Points in Spatial Ecosystems
The American Naturalist·2025· 1 cited
How human infrastructure threatens biodiversity by squeezing sandy coasts
Current Biology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Spatial and temporal scale–dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
Spatial and temporal scale-dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Overgrazing erodes the sink role of vegetated mounds in semiarid hillslopes
CATENA·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points
Nature Climate Change·2025· 10 cited
Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass
Oecologia·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The effect of a climatic compound drought and heatwave event on the dune-building grass Elytrigia juncea
Plant and Soil·2025Open Access
Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa
2025Open Access
How spatiotemporal dynamics can enhance ecosystem resilience
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Indications of Ongoing Noise‐Tipping of a Bifurcating River System
Geophysical Research Letters·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Extreme heat and drought did not affect interspecific interactions between dune grasses
Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa
Environmental Research Letters·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
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2024
Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 31 citedOpen Access
Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration
Current Biology·2024· 38 citedOpen Access
Resemblance of the global depth distribution of internal-tide generation and cold-water coral occurrences
Ocean science·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Johan van de Koppel(15), Maarten B. Eppinga(11), Peter C. de Ruiter(7), Sonia Kéfi(7), Arjen Doelman(7), Stefan C. Dekker(6), Martin J. Wassen(5), H.H.T. Prins(4), Stefano Mazzoleni(4), Giuliano Bonanomi(4), Francesco Giannino(4), Koen Siteur(4), Eric Siero(4), Marten Scheffer(3), Vasilis Dakos(3), Egbert H. van Nes(3), Frank van Langevelde(3), Lalit Kumar(3), P.M.J. Herman(3), Robbin Bastiaansen(3)