@Article{Saade2023,
  author       = {Camille Saade and Emanuel A. Fronhofer and Benoit Pichon and Sonia Kefi},
  journal      = {Am. Nat.},
  title        = {Landscape structure affects metapopulation-scale tipping points},
  year         = {2023},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {E17--E30},
  volume       = {202},
  abstract     = {Even when environments deteriorate gradually, ecosystems may shift abruptly from one state to another. Such catastrophic shifts are difficult to predict and sometimes to reverse (so-called hysteresis). While well studied in simplified contexts, we lack a general understanding of how catastrophic shifts spread in realistically spatially structured landscapes. For different types of landscape structures, including typical terrestrial modular and riverine dendritic networks, we here investigate landscape-scale stability in metapopulations whose patches can locally exhibit catastrophic shifts. We find that such metapopulations usually exhibit large-scale catastrophic shifts and hysteresis and that the properties of these shifts depend strongly on the metapopulation spatial structure and on the population dispersal rate: an intermediate dispersal rate, a low average degree or a riverine spatial structure can largely reduce hysteresis size. Our study suggests that large-scale restoration is easier with spatially clustered restoration efforts and in populations characterized by an intermediate dispersal rate.},
  code_doi     = {https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.612jm6474},
  doi          = {10.1086/724550},
  hal_id       = {hal-03871625},
  isem_pub_no  = {ISEM-2022-278},
  preprint_doi = {https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.19.469221},
}