Publications

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Selected publications

Kéfi, S., A. Génin, A. Garcia-Mayor, E. Guirado, J.S. Cabral, M. Berdugo, J. Guerber, R. Solé, F.T. Maestre.
Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024.

G. Aguadé‐Gorgorió, J. Arnoldi, M. Barbier, S. Kéfi.
A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities.
Ecology Letters. 2024.

Kéfi, S., C. Saade, E. L. Berlow, J. S. Cabral, E. A. Fronhofer.
Scaling up our understanding of tipping points.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B. 2022.

Pilosof, S., Porter M.A., Pascual M., Kéfi S.
The multilayer nature of ecological networks.
Nature in Ecology and Evolution. 2017.

Kéfi, S., E. Berlow, E. Wieters, S. Navarrete, O. Petchey, S. Wood, A. Boit, L. Joppa, K. Lafferty, R. Williams, N. Martinez, B. Menge, C. Blanchette, A. Iles, U. Brose.
More than a meal… Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.
Ecology Letters. 2012.

Kéfi, S., V. Guttal, W.A. Brock, S.R. Carpenter, A.M. Ellison, V. Livina, D.A. Seekell, M. Scheffer, E.H. van Nes, V. Dakos.
Early Warning signals of ecological transitions: Methods for spatial patterns.
PLoS ONE. 2014.

Kéfi, S., M. Rietkerk, C. L. Alados, Y. Pueyo, A. ElAich, V. Papanastasis, P. C. de Ruiter. 2007.
Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems.
Nature. 2007.

All publications

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2024

S. Kéfi, A. Génin, A. Garcia-Mayor, E. Guirado, J.S. Cabral, M. Berdugo, J. Guerber, R. Solé, F.T. Maestre. 2024.
Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6): e2305153121

S. Kéfi, C.J. Lortie, L.A. Cavieres. 2024.
The importance of facilitative interactions in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity.
Oikos. e10984

V. Domínguez-García, S. Kéfi. 2024.
The structure and robustness of ecological networks with two interaction types
PLoS Computational Biology. 20(1): e1011770

G. Aguadé‐Gorgorió, J. Arnoldi, M. Barbier, S. Kéfi. 2024.
A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities.
Ecology Letters. 27(4): e14413

G. Aguadé-Gorgorió, S. Kéfi. 2024.
Alternative cliques of coexisting species in complex ecosystems.
Journal of Physics: Complexity. 5: 025022

M. Sánchez-Pinillos, V. Dakos, S. Kéfi. 2024.
Ecological dynamic regimes: A key concept for assessing ecological resilience. Biological Conservation. 289: 110409

B. Pichon, I. Gounand, S. Donnet, S. Kéfi. 2024.
The interplay of facilitation and competition drives the emergence of multistability in dryland plant communities.
Ecology. e4369

J. Jorna, B.J. Adams, Z.T. Aanderud, P.B. Frandsen, C. Takacs‐Vesbach, S. Kéfi. 2024.
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria.
Oikos. e10299

A. Danet, S. Bautista, A. Génin, A.P. Beckerman, F. Anthelme, S. Kéfi. 2024.
Species diversity promotes facilitation under stressful conditions.
Oikos. e10303.
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B. Pichon, S. Kéfi, N. Loeuille, I. Lajaaiti, I. Gounand. 2024.
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization.
Ecography. e07167

I. Lajaaiti, S. Kéfi, J.F. Arnoldi. 2024.
How biotic interactions structure species’ responses to perturbations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291(2032): 20240930

V. Dakos, C.A. Boulton, J.E. Buxton, J.F. Abrams, D.I. Armstrong McKay, S. Bathiany, L. Blaschke, N. Boers, D. Dylewsky, C. López-Martínez, I. Parry, P. Ritchie, B. van der Bolt, L. van der Laan, E. Weinans, S. Kéfi. 2024.
Tipping point detection and early-warnings in climate, ecological, and human systems.
Earth System Dynamics. 15(4): 1117-1135

2023

TM Lenton et al.. The Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
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C. Saade, E.A. Fronhofer, B. Pichon, S. Kéfi. 2023.
Landscape structure affects metapopulation-scale tipping points.
The American Naturalist. 202(1): E17-E30

M. Sánchez‐Pinillos, S. Kéfi, M. De Cáceres, V. Dakos. 2023.
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison.
Ecological monographs. 93(4): e1589

X. Wang, T. Peron, J.L.A. Dubbeldam, S. Kéfi, Y. Moreno. 2023.
Interspecific competition shapes the structural stability of mutualistic networks.
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 172, 113507

A. Vasques, M. Baudena, V.R. Vallejo, S Kéfi, S. Bautista, V.M. Santana, M.J. Baeza, P. Maia, J.J. Keizer, M. Rietkerk. 2023.
Post-fire regeneration traits of understorey shrub species modulate successional responses to high severity fire in Mediterranean pine forests.
Ecosystems. 26(1): 146-160

E. Forgoston et al.. 2023.
Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems.
arXiv:2306.07447

2022

S. Kéfi, C. Saade, E. L. Berlow, J. S. Cabral, E. A. Fronhofer. 2022.
Scaling up our understanding of tipping points.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B. 377: 1857

V. Dakos, S. Kéfi. 2022.
Ecological Resilience: What to Measure and How.
Environmental Research Letters. 17: 043003

C. Saade, S Kéfi, C. Gougat-Barbera, B. Rosenbaum, E.A. Fronhofer. 2022.
Spatial autocorrelation of local patch extinctions drives recovery dynamics in metacommunities.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289(1972): 20220543

S. Rigal, V. Devictor, P. Gaüzère, Kéfi S., Forsman JT, Kajanus MH, Mönkkönen M, Dakos V. 2022.
Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large-scale changes in species associations.
Oikos. 2022: e08756

A. Vasques, M. Baudena, V.R. Vallejo, S. Kéfi, S. Bautista, V.M. Santana, M.J. Baeza, P. Maia, J.J. Keizer, M. Rietkerk. 2022.
Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests.
Ecosystems. 26: 146–160

F. Houngnandan, S. Kéfi, T. Bockel, J. Deter. 2022.
The joint influence of environmental and anthropogenic factors on the invasion of two alien caulerpae in northwestern Mediterranean.
Biological Invasions. 24(2): 449-462

2021

Génin, A., T. Dutoit, A. Danet, A. le Priol, S. Kéfi. 2021.
Grazing and the vanishing complexity of plant association networks in grasslands.
Oikos. 130(4): 541-552

Danet, A., F.D. Schneider, F. Anthelme, S. Kéfi. 2021.
Indirect facilitation drives species composition and stability in drylands.
Theoretical Ecology. 14: 189-203

Thompson, P.L., S. Kéfi, Y.R. Zelnik, L.E. Dee, S. Wang, C. de Mazancourt, M. Loreau, A. Gonzalez. 2021.
Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288:20202779

Maestre, F., B. Benito, M. Berdugo, L. Concostrina-Zubiri, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, D. Eldridge, E. Guirado, N. Gross, S. Kéfi, Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet, R. Ochoa Hueso, S. Soliveres. 2021.
Biogeography of global drylands.
New Phytologist. 231(2): 540-558

Battiston, F., E. Amico, A. Barrat, G. Bianconi, G. Ferraz de Arruda, B. Franceschiello, I. Iacopini, S. Kéfi, V. Latora, Y. Moreno, M. M. Murray, T. P. Peixoto, F. Vaccarino, G. Petri. 2021.
Higher-order interactions in complex networks: an opportunity for new physics.
Nature Physics. 17(10):1093-1098

Lurgi, M., N. Galiana, B.R. Broitman, S. Kéfi, E.A. Wieters, S.A. Navarrete. 2021.
Geographical variation of multiplex ecological networks in marine intertidal communities.
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 102(1), 1-7

2020

Génin, A., S. Lee, E.L. Berlow, S. Ostoja, S. Kéfi. 2020.
Mapping hotspots of potential ecosystem fragility using commonly available spatial data.
Biological Conservation. 241: 108388

Kéfi, S. 2020.
Ecological Networks: from structure to dynamics.
Chapter 10 in: Theoretical ecology: Concepts and applications. Oxford University Press.

Houngnandan, F., S. Kéfi, J. Deter. 2020.
Identifying key-conservation areas for Posidonia oceanica seagrass beds.
Biological Conservation. 247: 108546

Gonzalez, A., R.M. Germain, D.S. Srivastava, E. Filotas, L.E. Dee, D. Gravel, M.I. O’Connor, P.L. Thompson, J. Cowles, F. Isbell, S. Wang, S. Kéfi, J. Montoya, Y. Zelnik, M Loreau. 2020.
Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.
Ecology Letters. 23(4): 757-776

Arnoldi, J.-F., S. Coq, S. Kéfi, S. Ibanez. 2020.
Positive plant-soil feedbacks trigger tannin evolution by niche construction: a spatial stoichiometric model.
Journal of Ecology. 108(1): 378-391

Lurgi, M., N. Galiana, B.R. Broitman, S. Kéfi, E.A. Wieters, S.A. Navarrete. 2020.
Geographical variation of multiplex ecological networks in marine intertidal communities.
Ecology 101(11):e03165

van den Elsen, E., L. Stringer, C. de Ita, R. Hessel, S. Kéfi, F.D. Schneider, S. Bautista, A. Garcia Mayor, M. Baudena, M. Rietkerk, A. Valdecantos, V. Ramon Vallejo, N. Geeson, J. Brandt, L. Fleskens, L. Hemerik, P. Panagos, S. Valente, J. Jacob Keizer, G. Schwilch, M. Jucker Riva, D. Sietz, M.A. Christoforou, D.G. Hadjimitsis, C. Papoutsa, G. Quaranta, R. Salvia, I. Tsanis, I.N. Daliakopoulos, H. Claringbould, P.C. De Ruiter. 2020.
Advances in understanding and managing catastrophic shifts in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8: 561101

Drake, J.M., S.M. O’Regan, V. Dakos, S. Kéfi, P. Rohani. 2020.
Alternative stable states, tipping points, and early warning signals of ecological transitions.
Chapter 15 in: Theoretical ecology: Concepts and applications. Oxford University Press.

2019

Dominguez-Garcia, V., V. Dakos, S. Kéfi. 2019.
Unveiling dimensions of stability in complex ecological networks.
PNAS. 116(51): 25714-25720.
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Kéfi, S., V. Dominguez-Garcia, I. Donohue, C. Fontaine, E. Thébault, V. Dakos. 2019.
Advancing our understanding of ecological stability.
Ecology Letters. 22(9): 1349-1356

Kéfi, S. 2019.
Multiple Stable States and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems.
In:Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199830060-0219

Miele, V., C. Guill, R. Ramos-Jiliberto, S. Kéfi. 2019.
Non-trophic interactions strengthen the diversity-functioning relationship in an ecological bioenergetic network model.
PLoS Computational Biology. 15(8): e1007269

Mayor, A.G., S. Bautista, F. Rodriguez, S. Kéfi. 2019.
Connectivity-mediated ecohydrological feedbacks and regime shifts in drylands.
Ecosystems. 22(7):1497-1511

Gaüzere, P., G. Doulcier, V. Devictor, S. Kéfi. 2019.
A framework for estimating species-specific contributions to community indicators.
Ecological Indicators. 99: 74-82

Berdugo, M., F.T. Maestre, S. Kéfi, N. Gross, Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet, S. Soliveres. 2019.
Aridity preferences alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on plant species abundance in global drylands.
Journal of Ecology. 107(1): 190-202

Berdugo, M., S. Soliveres, S. Kéfi, F.T. Maestre. 2019.
The interplay between facilitation and habitat type drives spatial vegetation patterns in global drylands.
Ecography. 42(4): 755-767

Rebolledo, R., S.A. Navarrete, S. Kéfi, S. Rojas, P.A. Marquet. 2019.
An Open-System Approach to Complex Biological Networks.
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 79(2): 619-640

Hutchinson, M.C., B. Bramon Mora, S. Pilosof, A.K. Barner, S. Kéfi, E. Thébault, P. Jordano, D.B. Stouffer. 2019.
Seeing the forest for the trees: Putting multilayer networks to work for community ecology.
Functional Ecology.3(2): 206-2017

Brose, U., P. Archambault, A.D. Barnes, L.-F. Bersier, T. Boy, J. Canning-Clode, et al.. 2019. Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems.
Nature in Ecology and Evolution. 3: 919-927

2018

Kéfi, S., P. Couteron. 2018.
Spatiotemporal patterns as early warnings of possible catastrophic shifts in stressed ecological systems.
Ecological Indicators. 94(1): 491-493

Génin, A., S. Majumder, S. Sankaran, A. Danet, V. Guttal, F.D. Schneider, S. Kéfi. 2018.
Monitoring ecosystem degradation using spatial data and the R package spatialwarnings
Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(10): 2067-2075

spatialwarnings R package.
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Danet, A., F. Anthelme, N. Gross, S. Kéfi. 2018.
Effects of indirect facilitation on functional diversity, dominance and niche differentiation in tropical alpine communities.
Journal of vegetation science. 29(5): 835-846

Génin, A., S. Majumder, S. Sankaran, F.D. Schneider, A. Danet, M. Berdugo, V. Guttal, S. Kéfi. 2018.
Spatially heterogeneous stressors can alter the performance of indicators of regime shifts.
Ecological Indicators. 94(1): 520-533

Zélé, F., S. Magalhães, S. Kéfi, A.B. Duncan. 2018.
Ecology and evolution of facilitation among symbionts: causes and consequences.
Nature communications. 9(1): 4869

Sankaran, S., S. Majumder, S.Kéfi, V. Guttal. 2018.
Implications of being discrete and spatial for detecting early warning signals of regime shifts.
Ecological Indicators. 94(1): 503-511

K. Kadowaki, S. Nishijima, S. Kéfi, K.O. Kameda, T. Sasaki. 2018.
Merging community assembly into the regime-shift approach for informing ecological restoration.
Ecological Indicators. 85: 991-998

Maris, V., P. Huneman, A. Coreau, S. Kéfi, R. Pradel, V. Devictor. 2018.
Prediction in ecology: promises, obstacles and clarifications.
Oikos. 127(2): 171-183.
CNRS news (in French)

2017

Kéfi, S.,E. Thébault, A. Eklöf, M. Lurgi, A.J. Davis, M. Kondoh, J.A. Krumins. 2017.
Toward multiplex ecological networks. Accounting for multiple interaction types to understand community structure and dynamics.
In Adaptive food webs: stability and transitions of real and model ecosystems Eds: John C. Moore, Peter C. de Ruiter, Kevin S. McCann and Volkmar Wolters. Cambridge University Press.

Danet, A.,S. Kéfi, R.I. Meneses, F. Anthelme. 2017.
Nurse species and indirect facilitation through grazing drive plant community functional traits in tropical alpine peatlands.
Ecology and Evolution. 7(24):11265-11276.

Pilosof, S., Porter M.A., Pascual M., Kéfi S. 2017.
The multilayer nature of ecological networks.
Nature in Ecology and Evolution. 1: 0101.

Berdugo, M.,Kéfi S., Soliveres S., Maestre F.T. 2017.
Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands.
Nature in Ecology and Evolution. 1: 0003.
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Donohue, I., O.L. Petchey, S. Kéfi, A. Génin, A.L. Jackson, Q. Yang, N.E. O’Connor. 2017.
Loss of predator species, not intermediate consumers, triggers rapid and dramatic extinction cascades.
Global Change Biology. 23(8): 2962-2972.

van Belzen, J., van de Koppel J., Kirwan M.L., van der Wal D., Herman P.M.J., Dakos V., Kéfi S., Scheffer M., Guntenspergen G.R., Bouma T.J. 2017.
Vegetation recovery in tidal marshes reveals critical slowing down under increased inundation.
Nature Communications 8:15811

van Belzen, J., van de Koppel J., van der Wal D., Herman P.M.J, Dakos V., Kéfi S., Scheffer M., Bouma T.J. 2017.
Timing recovery of ecosystems in sequential remotely sensed and simulated data.
Protocol Exchange doi:10.1038/protex.2017.038

Massol, F., M. Dubart, V. Calcagno, K. Cazelles, C. Jacquet, S. Kéfi, D. Gravel. 2017.
Island Biogeography of Food Webs.
Advances in Ecological Research. 56: 183–262

2016

Kéfi, S., V. Miele, E.A. Wieters, S.A. Navarrete, E.L. Berlow. 2016.
How structured is the entangled bank? The surprisingly simple organization of multiplex ecological networks leads to increased persistence and resilience.
PLOS Biology. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.100252.
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Kéfi, S., M. Holmgren, M. Scheffer. 2016.
When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems?.
Functional Ecology. 30: 88-97.

Schneider, F.D., S. Kéfi. 2016.
Spatially heterogeneous pressure raises risk of catastrophic shifts.
Theoretical Ecology. 9(2): 207-217.
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Poisot, T., D.B. Stouffer, S.Kéfi. 2016.
Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology?.
Functional Ecology. 30: 1878-1882.

Gounand, I., S. Kéfi, N. Mouquet, D. Gravel. 2016.
Trait selection during food web assembly: the roles of interactions and temperature.
Theoretical Ecology. 9(4): 417-429.

Maestre, F. T., D. J. Eldridge, S. Soliveres, S. Kéfi, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, M. A. Bowker, P. García-Palacios, J. Gaitán, A. Gallardo, R. Lázaro, M. Berdugo. 2016.
Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World.
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematic. 47: 215-237.

Pueyo, Y., D. Moret-Fernández, A. I. Arroyo, A. de Frutos, S. Kéfi, H. Saiz, R. Charte, M. L. Giner, C. L. Alados. 2016.
Plant nurse effects rely on combined hydrological and ecological components in a semiarid ecosystem.
Ecosphere 7(10):e01514. 10.1002/ecs2.1514

Poisot, T., B. Baiser, J.A. Dunne, S. Kéfi, F. Massol, N. Mouquet, T.N. Romanuk, D.B. Stouffer, S.A. Wood, D. Gravel. 2016.
mangal– making complex ecological network analysis simpler.
Ecography. 39(4): 384-390

2015

Kéfi, S., E.L. Berlow, E.A. Wieters, L.N. Joppa, S.A. Wood, U. Brose, S.A. Navarrete. 2015.
Network structure beyond food webs: mapping non-trophic and trophic interactions on Chilean rocky shores.
Ecology. 96(1):291–303.

Poisot, T., S. Kéfi, S. Morand, M. Stanko, P. Marquet, M.E. Hochberg. 2015.
A continuum of specialists and generalists in empirical communities.
PLOS One. 10(5): e0114674.

Petchey, O.L., M. Pontarp, T.M. Massie, S. Kéfi, A. Ozgul, M. Weilenmann, G.M. Palamara, F. Altermatt, B. Matthews, J.M. Levine, D.Z. Childs, B.J. McGill, M.E. Schaepman, B. Schmid, P. Spaak, A.P. Beckerman, F. Pennekamp, I.S. Pearse. 2015.
The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.
Ecology Letters. 18(7): 587-611.

Xu, C., E.H. Van Nes, M. Holmgren, S. Kéfi, and M. Scheffer. 2015.
Local facilitation may cause tipping points on a landscape level preceded by early warning indicators.
American Naturalist. 186(4): E81-E90.

Xu, C., M. Holmgren, E.H. Van Nes, F.T. Maestre, S. Soliveres, M. Berdugo, S. Kéfi, P.A. Marquet, S. Abades, M. Scheffer. 2015.
Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? A test across global drylands.Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? A test across global drylands.
Ecological Applications. 25(6): 1456-1462.

Mouquet, N., Y. Lagadeuc, V. Devictor, L. Doyen, A. Duputié, D. Eveillard, D. Faure, E. Garnier, O. Gimenez, P. Huneman, F. Jabot, P. Jarne, D. Joly, R. Julliard, S. Kéfi, G.J. Kergoat, S. Lavorel, L. Le Gall, L. Meslin, S. Morand, X. Morin, H. Morlon, G. Pinay, R. Pradel, F.M. Schurr, W. Thuilller, M. Loreau. 2015.
Predictive ecology in a changing world.
Journal of Applied Ecology. 52(5): 1293-1310.

2014

Kéfi, S., V. Guttal, W.A. Brock, S.R. Carpenter, A.M. Ellison, V. Livina, D.A. Seekell, M. Scheffer, E.H. van Nes, V. Dakos. 2014.
Early Warning signals of ecological transitions: Methods for spatial patterns.
PLoS ONE 9(3): 2097.

Morlon, H., S. Kéfi, N.D. Martinez. 2014.
Effects of trophic similarity on community composition
Ecology Letters 17(2): 1495-1506.

2013

S. Kéfi, V. Dakos, M. Scheffer, E.H. Van Nes, M. Rietkerk. 2013.
Early warning signals also precede non‐catastrophic transitions.
Oikos 122 (5), 641-648

A.G. Mayor, S. Kéfi, S. Bautista, F. Rodríguez, F. Cartení, M. Rietkerk. 2013.
Feedbacks between vegetation pattern and resource loss dramatically decrease ecosystem resilience and restoration potential in a simple dryland model.
Landscape ecology. 28: 931-942

B. Komac, S. Kéfi, P. Nuche, J. Escós, C.L. Alados. 2013.
Modeling shrub encroachment in subalpine grasslands under different environmental and management scenarios.
Journal of Environmental Management. 121: 160-169

H. Tomimatsu, T. Sasaki, H. Kurokawa, J.R. Bridle, C. Fontaine, J. Kitano, D.B. Stouffer, M. Vellend, T. Martijn Bezemer, T. Fukami, E.A. Hadly, M.G.A. van Der Heijden, M. Kawata, S. Kéfi, N.J.B. Kraft, K.S. McCann, P.J. Mumby, T. Nakashizuka, O.L. Petchey, T.N. Romanuk, K.N. Suding, G. Takimoto, J. Urabe, S. Yachi. 2013.
Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach.
Journal of Applied Ecology. 50(5): 1124-1130

2012

Kéfi, S., E. Berlow, E. Wieters, S. Navarrete, O. Petchey, S. Wood, A. Boit, L. Joppa, K. Lafferty, R. Williams, N. Martinez, B. Menge, C. Blanchette, A. Iles, U. Brose. 2012.
More than a meal… Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.
Ecology Letters. 15(4): 291-300

V. Dakos, S.R. Carpenter, W.A. Brock, A.M. Ellison, V. Guttal, A.R. Ives, S. Kéfi, V. Livina, D.A. Seekell, E.H. van Nes, M. Scheffer. 2012.
Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data.
PloS one. 7(7): e41010

S. Kéfi. 2012.
Des écosystèmes sur le fil: Comment certains écosystèmes basculent d’un état à un autre.
Regards et débats sur la biodiversité (SFE).

2011

S. Kéfi, M. Rietkerk, M. Roy, A. Franc, P.C. De Ruiter, M. Pascual. 2011.
Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction.
Ecology letters. 14(1): 29-35

C. Fontaine, P.R. Guimarães Jr, S. Kéfi, N. Loeuille, J. Memmott, W.H. van Der Putten, F.J.F. Van Veen, E. Thébault. 2011.
The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks.
Ecology letters. 14(11): 1170-1181

V. Dakos, S. Kéfi, M. Rietkerk, E.H. Van Nes, M. Scheffer. 2011.
Slowing down in spatially patterned ecosystems at the brink of collapse.
The American Naturalist. 177(6): E153-E166

2010

S. Kéfi, M.B. Eppinga, P.C. de Ruiter, M. Rietkerk. 2010.
Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems.
Theoretical Ecology. 3: 257-269

S. Kéfi, C.L. Alados, R.C.G. Chaves, Y. Pueyo, M. Rietkerk. 2010.
Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?.
Ecology. 90(7): 1729-1735

Y. Pueyo, S. Kéfi, R. Díaz-Sierra, C.L. Alados, M. Rietkerk. 2010.
The role of reproductive plant traits and biotic interactions in the dynamics of semi-arid plant communities.
Theoretical Population Biology. 78(4): 289-297

2009

Y. Pueyo, C.L. Alados, B. García‐Ávila, S. Kéfi, M. Maestro, M. Rietkerk. 2009.
Comparing direct abiotic amelioration and facilitation as tools for restoration of semiarid grasslands.
Restoration Ecology. 17(6), 908-916

2008

S. Kéfi, M. van Baalen, M. Rietkerk, M. Loreau. 2008.
Evolution of local facilitation in arid ecosystems.
The American Naturalist. 172(1): E1-E17

S. Kéfi, M. Rietkerk, G.G. Katul. 2008.
Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems.
Theoretical population biology. 74(4): 332-344

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