Dr. Sonia Kefi

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
KeywordsInteraction networks, Mathematical models, Ecosystem stability, Early warning signals, Drylands
Honours and awards

2020: Erdős–Rényi Prize, Network Science Society

2020: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt foundation

2017: CNRS Bronze medal, France

2011: Van Marum prize for Environmental Sciences, the Netherlands

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityMontpellier Cedex 05
InstitutionUniversite de Montpellier
InstituteInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR 5554) cc 64
Homepagehttp://biodicee.edu.umontpellier.fr/who-we-are/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich BroseZoologisches Institut, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Ulrich BroseJ.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Juliano Sarmento CabralCenter for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2009

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs
2020Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2013Sonia Kéfi, Vasilis Dakos, Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. Van Nes, Max Rietkerk. Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions. In: Oikos, 2013, 641-648
2012Sonia Kéfi, Eric Berlow, Evie Wieters, Sergio Navarrete, Owen Petchey, Spencer Wood, Alice Boit, Lucas Joppa, Kevin Lafferty, Rich Williams, Neo Martinez, Bruce Menge, Carol Blanchette, Alison Iles, Ulrich Brose: More than a meal... Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.. In: Ecology Letters , 2012, 291-300
2011Sonia Kefi, Max Rietkerk, Manojit Roy, Alain Franc, Peter de Ruiter, Mercedes Pascual: Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction.. In: Ecology Letters, 2011, 29-35
2011Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kefi, Max Rietkerk, Egbert van Nes, Marten Scheffer: Slowing down in spatially patterned ecosystems at the brink of collapse.. In: The American Naturalist, 2011, E153-E166
2010Sonia Kéfi, Maarten B. Eppinga, Peter C. de Ruiter, Max Rietkerk: Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems . In: Theoretical Ecology, 2010, 257-269
2010Yolanda Pueyo, Sonia Kéfi, Ruben Diaz-Sierra, Inma Alados, Max Rietkerk The role of reproductive plant traits and biotic interactions in the dynamics of semi-arid plant communities. In: Theoretical Population Biology, 2010, 289-297