Stefan C. Dekker

Research interests

Publications

• Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01779-y

• Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18728-7

• A systems approach to understand microplastic occurrence and variability in Dutch riverine surface waters

  Water Research · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115723

• 5th generation district heating and cooling systems as a solution for renewable urban thermal energy supply

  Advances in geosciences · 2019 · 10.5194/adgeo-49-129-2019

• Integrated scenarios to support analysis of the food–energy–water nexus

  Nature Sustainability · 2019 · 10.1038/s41893-019-0418-8

• Closing the gap between small and smaller: towards a framework to analyse nano- and microplastics in aqueous environmental samples

  Environmental Science Nano · 2018 · 10.1039/c8en00186c

• Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon

  Nature Climate Change · 2018 · 10.1038/s41558-018-0177-y

• Per-capita estimations of long-term historical land use and the consequences for global change research

  Journal of Land Use Science · 2017 · 10.1080/1747423x.2017.1354938

• Optimal allocation of leaf epidermal area for gas exchange

  New Phytologist · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13929

• Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

  Biogeosciences · 2015 · 10.5194/bg-12-1833-2015

• A critical transition in leaf evolution facilitated the Cretaceous angiosperm revolution

  Nature Communications · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2217

• Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.018

• Global CO 2 rise leads to reduced maximum stomatal conductance in Florida vegetation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1100371108

• Climate forcing due to optimization of maximal leaf conductance in subtropical vegetation under rising CO 2

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100555108

• Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

  Ecology · 2010 · 10.1890/09-2198.1

• Soil food web structure during ecosystem development after land abandonment

  Applied Soil Ecology · 2008 · 10.1016/j.apsoil.2007.11.002

• Understanding the reductions in US corn ethanol production costs: An experience curve approach

  Energy Policy · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.08.002

• Coupling microscale vegetation–soil water and macroscale vegetation–precipitation feedbacks in semiarid ecosystems

  Global Change Biology · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01327.x

• Accumulation of local pathogens: a new hypothesis to explain exotic plant invasions

  Oikos · 2006 · 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14625.x

• Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems

  Science · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101867

• A Putative Mechanism for Bog Patterning

  The American Naturalist · 2004 · 10.1086/383065

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