Egbert H. van Nes
Wageningen University and Research Centre
181 Papers
453 Citations
Egbert H. van Nes is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Alternative stable state & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 165 publications.
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Papers
Causal feedbacks in climate change
Egbert H. van Nes,Marten Scheffer,Victor Brovkin,Timothy M. Lenton,Hao Ye,Ethan R. Deyle,George Sugihara +6 more
TL;DR: This paper used insight from dynamical systems theory to show that internal Earth system mechanisms largely control climate dynamics, rather than orbital forcing, and temperature does have a reinforcing feedback on greenhouse-gas concentrations.
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Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that higher interannual variability in rainfall is shown to reduce tree cover in the wet tropics, but may promote expansion of cover in tropical dry lands.
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Positive feedbacks in seagrass ecosystems - Evidence from large-scale empirical data
Tjisse van der Heide,Egbert H. van Nes,Marieke M. van Katwijk,Han Olff,Alfons J. P. Smolders +4 more
TL;DR: Results confirmed that a positive feedback between sediment conditions, light conditions and seagrass density is likely to exist in seagRass ecosystems, and demonstrated the potential of SEM to identify and quantify positive feedbacks mechanisms for ecosystems and other complex systems.
Dynamics and stability of Chara sp. and Potamogeton pectinatus in a shallow lake changing in eutrophication level
TL;DR: In this article, a logistic regression of detailed vegetation maps over the past 10 years (1988-1997) showed that occurrence of Chara spp. was positively related with spring averages of Secchi depth, while the occurrence of P. pectinatus was slightly negatively related with water depth.
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Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century.
Arie Staal,Arie Staal,Ingo Fetzer,Lan Wang-Erlandsson,Joyce Bosmans,Stefan C. Dekker,Egbert H. van Nes,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Obbe A. Tuinenburg +9 more
TL;DR: This work determines the emergent hysteresis from local-scale tipping points and regional-scale forest-rainfall feedbacks across the tropics under the recent climate and a severe climate-change scenario and shows how tropical forests shape their own distributions and create the climatic conditions that enable them.