Events

Date: 25 September 2025   Time: 13:00 - 14:00

Location: MB-503

Understanding the transition from stability to instability in ecosystems is crucial for maintaining ecosystem functionality and preserving biodiversity. In this talk, I will examine this issue from a network science perspective, investigating how ecological complexity, spatial dispersal, and climate warming affect the stability of ecosystems with diverse interaction types. Our findings show that increasing ecological complexity can drive the system through successive phases of stability, reactivity, and oscillation, ultimately leading to instability. Moreover, we demonstrate that climate warming can push ecosystems through three distinct dynamical phases of ecological diversity—stable full coexistence, stable partial coexistence, and total extinction—consistent with theoretical predictions.