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Selected Publications – Collective animal behaviour

Jitesh Jhawar and Vishwesha Guttal, 2020, Noise-induced Effects in Collective Dynamics and Inferring Local Interactions from Data, Phil. Tran. Roy Soc B, 375: 20190381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0381; [arxiv];  [Codes and Data]

Jitesh Jhawar, Richard G. Morris, U. R. Amith-Kumar, M. Danny Raj, R. Harikrishnan, Tim Rogers and Vishwesha Guttal, 2020, Noise-Induced Schooling of Fish, Nature Physics, 16: 488–493  doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0787-y;  View PDF;  Codes and Data

Popular summary on our blog and also a twitter thread. Covered in various Indian and International media outlets. 

Jaideep Joshi, Iain D Couzin, Simon A Levin, Vishwesha Guttal, 2017, Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics, PLoS Computational Biology. 13(9):e1005732, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005732 and [BioRxiv]

Vishwesha Guttal*, Pawel Romanczuk*, Stephen J Simpson, Gregory A Sword, Iain D Couzin, 2012, Cannibalism as a driver of the evolution of phase polyphenism in locusts, Ecology Letters, Vol 15:1158-1166 [*co-first authors].

Christos C Ioannou, Vishwesha Guttal, Iain D Couzin, 2012, Predatory fish select for coordinated collective motion in virtual prey. Science. 337: 1212-1215 A video on YouTube. [PDF available from Iain Couzin’s publications page. Look for publication #69.]

Vishwesha Guttal, Iain D. Couzin, 2010, Social interactions, information use and the evolution of collective migration, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 107:16172-16177. PDF. Also see: Movies 1 and 2.

Selected Publications –  Early Warning Signals of Regime Shifts (Empirical Applications)

Majumder, Sabiha, Krishnapriya Tamma, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Vishwesha Guttal. 2019, Inferring critical thresholds of ecosystem transitions from spatial data. Ecology, 100:e02722; doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2722 PDF of Maintext; PDF of Maintext+SI;  Data and codes. 

Chen Ning, Kailiang Yu, C Jayaprakash, Vishwesha Guttal, 2018, Rising variability, not slowing down, as a leading indicator of a stochastically driven abrupt transition in a dryland ecosystem, The American Naturalist, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/694821, Data and Codes via Dryad.  There is also a Lay summary.

Stephanie Eby*, Amit Agrawal*, Sabiha Majumder, Andew Dobson and Vishwesha Guttal, 2017, Alternative stable states and spatial indicators of critical slowing down along a spatial gradient in a savanna ecosystem,  Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26: 638-649;  Codes and Data are available on Github.  PDF (*These authors contributed equally to this work). 

Selected Publications –  Early Warning Signals of Regime Shifts (Theory and Methods)

Sumithra Sankaran, Sabiha Majumder, Ashwin Viswanathan and Vishwesha Guttal, Clustering and correlations: Inferring resilience from spatial patterns in ecosystems, 2019, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 2079-2089, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13304 Download PDF;  Data and codes

Sumithra Sankaran*, Sabiha Majumder*, Sonia Kefi, Vishwesha Guttal, 2018, Implications of being discrete and spatial for detecting early warning signals of regime shifts, Ecological Indicators, 94:503-511 doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.11.040  Download PDF (*These authors contributed equally to this work). 

Alexandre Genin, Sabiha Majumder, Sumithra Sankaran, Alain Danet, Vishwesha Guttal, Florian Schneider, Sonia Kefi, 2018, Monitoring ecosystem degradation using spatial data and the R package spatialwarnings,  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 2067-2075, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13058 Download PDF; Download the R-Package spatialwarnigs and source codes. 

Alexandre Génin*, Sabiha Majumder*, Sumithra Sankaran*, Florian D Schneider, Alain Danet, Miguel Berdugo, Vishwesha Guttal, Sonia Kefi, 2018, Indicators of regime shifts in ecological systems with spatially heterogeneous stressors, Ecological Indicators, 94:520-533 doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.10.071 Download PDF (*These authors contributed equally to this work). 

Sonia Kefi*, Vishwesha Guttal*, William A Brock, Stephen R Carpenter, Aaron M Ellison, Valerie N Livina, David A Seekel, Marten Scheffer, Egbert H van Nes, Vasilis Dakos, 2014, Early warning signals of ecological transitions: Methods for spatial patterns, PLoS ONE 9(3): e92097. (*These authors contributed equally to this work).

Vishwesha Guttal, C. Jayaprakash. 2009, Spatial variance and spatial skewness: Leading indicators of regime shifts in spatial ecological systems, Theoretical ecology, 2:3-12.PDF

Vishwesha Guttal, C. Jayaprakash. 2008, Changing Skewness: An early warning signal of regime shifts in ecological systems, Ecology Letters 11:450-460. PDF

Selected Publications: Dynamics of Regime Shifts. 

Vishwesha Guttal, C. Jayaprakash, 2007, “Impact of noise on bistable ecological systems”,Ecological Modelling, 201: 420-428. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.10.005 PDF

Vishwesha Guttal, C Jayaprakash, 2007, “Self-organization and productivity in semi-arid ecosystems: Implications of seasonality in rainfall”, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 248: 490-500. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.05.020 PDF

Amit Badhuri, Srinivas Raghavendra, Vishwesha Guttal, 2015, On the Systemic Fragility of Finance Led Growth, Metroeconomica, 66: 158-186. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/meca.12070 Download PDF