Search Results - "Vidiella, Blai"

Exploiting delayed transitions to sustain semiarid ecosystems after catastrophic shifts by Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep, Solé, Ricard

“…Semiarid ecosystems (including arid, semiarid and dry-subhumid ecosystems) span more than 40% of extant habitats and contain a similar percentage of the human…”
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Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells by Vidiella, Blai, Guillamon, Antoni, Sardanyés, Josep, Maull, Victor, Pla, Jordi, Conde, Nuria, Solé, Ricard

“…Complex dynamical fluctuations, from intracellular noise, brain dynamics or computer traffic display bursting dynamics consistent with a critical state between…”
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Author Correction: Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells by Vidiella, Blai, Guillamon, Antoni, Sardanyés, Josep, Maull, Victor, Pla, Jordi, Conde, Nuria, Solé, Ricard

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Ecological firewalls for synthetic biology by Vidiella, Blai, Solé, Ricard

“…It has been recently suggested that engineered microbial strains could be used to protect ecosystems from undesirable tipping points and biodiversity loss. A…”
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Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains by Vidiella, Blai, Fontich, Ernest, Valverde, Sergi, Sardanyés, Josep

“…Transients in ecology are extremely important since they determine how equilibria are approached. The debate on the dynamic stability of ecosystems has been…”
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Synthetic associative learning in engineered multicellular consortia by Macia, Javier, Vidiella, Blai, Solé, Ricard V.

“…Associative learning (AL) is one of the key mechanisms displayed by living organisms in order to adapt to their changing environments. It was recognized early…”
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Coexistence of nestedness and modularity in host–pathogen infection networks by Valverde, Sergi, Vidiella, Blai, Montañez, Raúl, Fraile, Aurora, Sacristán, Soledad, García-Arenal, Fernando

“…The long-term coevolution of hosts and pathogens in their environment forms a complex web of multi-scale interactions. Understanding how environmental…”
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Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model by Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep, Solé, Ricard V

“…Semiarid ecosystems are threatened by global warming due to longer dehydration times and increasing soil degradation. Mounting evidence indicates that, given…”
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Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome by Conde-Pueyo, Nuria, Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep, Berdugo, Miguel, Maestre, Fernando T, De Lorenzo, Victor, Solé, Ricard

“…What is the potential for synthetic biology as a way of engineering, on a large scale, complex ecosystems? Can it be used to change endangered ecological…”
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Population dynamics of synthetic terraformation motifs by Solé, Ricard V., Montañez, Raúl, Duran-Nebreda, Salva, Rodriguez-Amor, Daniel, Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep

“…Ecosystems are complex systems, currently experiencing several threats associated with global warming, intensive exploitation and human-driven habitat…”
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Identifying regime shifts, transients and late warning signals for proactive ecosystem management by Sardanyés, Josep, Ivančić, Filip, Vidiella, Blai

“…Conservation Biology fosters the study of Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity aiming at protecting species and their habitats from menaces causing the erosion…”
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Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands by Berdugo, Miguel, Vidiella, Blai, Solé, Ricard V., Maestre, Fernando T.

“…With ongoing climate change, the probability of crossing environmental thresholds promoting abrupt changes in ecosystem structure and functioning is higher…”
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About ghost transients in spatial continuous media by Calsina, Àngel, Cuadrado, Sílvia, Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep

“…The impact of space on ecosystem dynamics has been a matter of debate since the dawn of theoretical ecology. Several studies have revealed that space usually…”
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On the multiscale dynamics of punctuated evolution by Duran-Nebreda, Salva, Bentley, R. Alexander, Vidiella, Blai, Spiridonov, Andrej, Eldredge, Niles, O’Brien, Michael J., Valverde, Sergi

“…Evolutionary processes span multiple hierarchical levels, with nested causality.Punctuated evolutionary changes occur unevenly as a result of environmental…”
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A cultural evolutionary theory that explains both gradual and punctuated change by Vidiella, Blai, Carrignon, Simon, Bentley, R Alexander, O'Brien, Michael J, Valverde, Sergi

“…Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) occurs among humans who may be presented with many similar options from which to choose, as well as many social influences…”
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Punctuated equilibrium at 50: Anything there for evolutionary anthropology? Yes; definitely by O'Brien, Michael J., Valverde, Sergi, Duran‐Nebreda, Salva, Vidiella, Blai, Bentley, R. Alexander

“…The theory of punctuated equilibrium (PE) was developed a little over 50 years ago to explain long‐term, large‐scale appearance and disappearance of species in…”
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Critical slowing down close to a global bifurcation of a curve of quasi-neutral equilibria by Fontich, Ernest, Guillamon, Antoni, Lázaro, J. Tomás, Alarcón, Tomás, Vidiella, Blai, Sardanyés, Josep

“…Critical slowing down arises close to bifurcations and involves long transients. Despite slowing down phenomena have been widely studied in local bifurcations…”
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Cultural Evolution, Disinformation, and Social Division by Bentley, R Alexander, Horne, Benjamin, Borycz, Joshua, Carrignon, Simon, Shteynberg, Garriy, Vidiella, Blai, Valverde, Sergi, O’Brien, Michael J

“…Diversity of expertise is inherent to cultural evolution. When it is transparent, diversity of human knowledge is useful; when social conformity overcomes that…”
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution by Duran‐Nebreda, Salva, Vidiella, Blai, Spiridonov, Andrej, Eldredge, Niles, O'Brien, Michael J., Bentley, R. Alexander, Valverde, Sergi

“…Punctuated equilibria is a theory of evolution that suggests that species go through periods of stability followed by sudden changes in phenotype. This theory…”
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Synthetic Lateral Inhibition in Periodic Pattern Forming Microbial Colonies by Duran-Nebreda, Salva, Pla, Jordi, Vidiella, Blai, Piñero, Jordi, Conde-Pueyo, Nuria, Solé, Ricard

“…Multicellular entities are characterized by intricate spatial patterns, intimately related to the functions they perform. These patterns are often created from…”
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