Vasilis Dakos

Research

Resilience and Tipping points

Understanding resilience and abrupt shifts in ecology and earth sciences, climate and human systems at different temporal and spatial scales

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Early-Warning Signals

Methods and tools for operationalizing resilience indicators to quantify the risk of tipping points for research and management

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Ecological dynamics: trends and patterns

Analysis of trends and statistical patterns in ecological and environmental variables to map system vulnerability

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Eco-evolutionary tipping points

A fundamental theoretical understanding that integrates evolutionary processes in ecological models of ecosystem tipping points

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Selected publications

Full list of publications

Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world

Dakos V, Matthews B, Hendry AP, Levine J, Loeuille N, Norberg J, Nosil P, Scheffer M, De Meester L (2019). Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(3), 355–362

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Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

Dakos V, Scheffer M, van Nes EH, Brovkin V, Petoukhov V, Held H (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 105(38), 14308-14312

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Advancing our understanding of ecological stability

Kéfi S, Domínguez‐García V, Donohue I, Fontaine C, Thébault E, Dakos V (2019). Ecology Letters, 22: 1349-1356

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Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

Dakos V, Carpenter SR, Brock WA, Ellison AM, Guttal V, Ives AR, Kéfi S, Livina V, Seekell DA, van Nes EH, Scheffer M (2012) PLoS ONE 7(7): e41010

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People

We are a small team but we are always open if you want to join us for a postdoc, phd, master or short research stays.

collaborators and past lab members

Vasilis DAKOS

CNRS researcher

BioDICee GitHub Googlescholar

open scholar PCI Ecology

Emilio MORA

postdoc

Emilio is working on the ANR-ENEMYCOCKTAIL project modelling multitrophic interactions to design better pest biocontrol practices.

BIODICEE

Krishna GIRISH

phd

Krishna is working on the EU-CLIMTIP project aiming to quantify species risk to extinction to future climatic tipping points using niche modelling.

BIODICEE

Latest News

New study – Ocean warming associated with rapid declines in productivity and elevated risk of fish stock collapses

Our work led by the PhD student Mathieu Pelissie just got published in Science Advances. In a nutshell we found: – More than 25% of the marine fish populations studied[…]

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MASTER THESIS (M2): MODELLING BIODIVERSITY EXPOSURE TO FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS

We offer a master project that will investigate how different aspects of future climate change, namely changes in temperature, precipitation, variability, and extreme events, may expose terrestrial and freshwater species[…]

vdakos September 3, 2026 0

Launch of EU project ClimTip

We are participating in the EU Horizon funded ClimTip project that kicked-off earlier in March 2023. The project aims to quantify the impacts of climate tipping points on Earth systems[…]

vdakos April 2, 2024 0

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Contact

BioDICée team
Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM)
CNRS UMR 5554, Building 22, 2nd floor
Université de Montpellier – CC065,
place Eugène Bataillon
34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France

Tel: +33 4 67 14 40 81

vasilis.dakos [at] umontpellier.fr