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Preprints
A. Martinez ... R. Martinez-Garcia ... et al., Flagship species as subterranean monitoring tools: a case study in anchialine ecosystems in Lanzarote (Canary Islands). PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-9141619/v1 (PDF)
M. Bongestab, D. Pinto-Ramos, & R. Martinez-Garcia#. Spatial self-organization stabilizes obligate mutualism through pattern formation. arXiv:2512.00254 (2025) (PDF).
A. Surendran, J.M. Calabrese, W.F. Fagan & R. Martinez-Garcia#. Using transient encounter rates to quantify spatial patterns of home-range organization. arXiv: 2510.13017 (2025) (PDF).
B. Garcia de Figueiredo, I. Silva, M.J. Noonan, C.H. Fleming, W.F. Fagan, J.M. Calabrese, R. Martinez-Garcia#. How animal movement influences wildlife-vehicle collision risk: a mathematical framework for range-resident species. arXiv:2507.17058 (2025) (PDF).
B. Garcia de Figueiredo, J.M. Calabrese, W.F. Fagan, R. Martinez-Garcia#. The structure of inter-reaction times in reaction-diffusion processes and consequences for counting statistics. arXiv:2409.11433 (2024) (PDF).
J.O. Abraham*#, R. Martinez-Garcia*#, F. Gijsman, E.M. Phillips, C.E. Tarnita. Should I stay or should I go? Modeling the decision-making process behind ungulate partial migration. Submitted.
M.J. Noonan, R. Martinez-Garcia, C.H. Fleming, B. Garcia de Figueiredo et al., The search behavior of terrestrial mammals. bioRxiv 2022.12.31.521874 (2022) (PDF).
Published
J. Van Der Voort#, R. Martinez-Garcia, A. Doelman, Vegetation pattern formation induced by local growth outpacing susceptibility to non-local competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology (in press, 2026) (PDF).
D. Pinto-Ramos & R. Martinez-Garcia#. How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems. Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA (in press, 2026) (PDF).
R. Menezes, J.M. Calabrese, W.F. Fagan, P.I. Prado, R. Martinez-Garcia#. The range-resident logistic model: a new framework to formalize the population-dynamics consequences of range residency. Ecology Letters 2025; 28:e70269(PDF).
N.O. Silvano, J. Valeriano, E. Hernández-García, C. López, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Flow spatial structure determines pattern instabilities in nonlocal models of population dynamics, Communications Physics 8, 326(2025) (PDF).
A. Surendran*, D. Pinto-Ramos*, R. Menezes*, & R. Martinez-Garcia#. Improving the mean-field approximation in continuous models of population dynamics with nonlocal dispersal: applications to vegetation pattern formation. Physica D 477, 134703 (in press) (2025) (PDF).
W.F. Fagan#, A. Krishnan, Q. Liao, C.H. Fleming, D. Liao, C. Lamb, B. Patterson, T. Wheeldon, R. Martinez-Garcia, J. Menezes, M.J. Noonan, E. Gurarie, J.M. Calabrese. Intraspecific encounters can lead to reduced range overlap. Movement Ecology 12, 58, (2024) (PDF).
V. Dornelas*, P. de Castro*, J.M. Calabrese, W.F. Fagan, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Movement bias in asymmetric landscapes and its impact on population distribution and critical habitat size. Proc. Royal Society A (in press) (2024) (PDF).
C. Cabal*, G.A. Maciel*, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Plant antagonistic facilitation across environmental gradients: a soil-resource ecosystem engineering model. New Phytologist 244, 670-682, (2024) (PDF).
E.H. Colombo, R. Martinez-Garcia, J.M. Calabrese, C. López, E. Hernández-García#. Pulsed interactions unify reaction–diffusion and spatial nonlocal models for biological pattern formation. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 3, 034001 (2024) (PDF).
D.C.P. Jorge, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Demographic effects of spatial patterns in the presence of a component Allee effect. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 21, 20240042 (2024) (PDF; preprint).
E. Ser-Giacomi#, R. Martinez-Garcia, S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, Dilution-driven heterogeneity enhances plankton productivity in Lagrangian ecosystems. Nature Communications, 14, 6092 (2023) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, C. Cabal, J.M. Calabrese, E. Hernández-García, C.E. Tarnita, C. López, J.A. Bonachela. Integrating theory and experiments to link local mechanisms and ecosystem-level consequences of vegetation patterns in drylands, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 166, 112881 (2023) (PDF).
M.P. Veldhuis#, R. Martinez-Garcia, V. Deblauwe, V. Dakos. Remotely-sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems. Ecography, e06139, (2022) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, C.E. Tarnita, J.A. Bonachela. Spatial patterns in ecological systems: from microbial colonies to ecosystem landscapes. Biological (A)Symmetry Across the Scales on Emerging Topics in Life Sciences; ETLS20210282 (2022) (PDF).
J. Nauta, P. Simoens, Y. Khaluf, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Foraging behavior and patch size distribution jointly determine population dynamics in fragmented landscapes. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19 (191), 20220103, (2022) (PDF).
G.A. Maciel, R. Martinez-Garcia#. Enhanced species coexistence in Lotka-Volterra competition models due to nonlocal interactions. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 530, 110872, (2021) (PDF; preprint).
M.J. Noonan, R. Martinez-Garcia, G.H. Davis, M.C. Crofoot, R. Kays, B.T. Hirsch, E. Payne, A. Sih, D.L. Sinn, O. Spiegel, W.F. Fagan, C.H. Fleming, J.M. Calabrese#. Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7), 1158-1173 (2021) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, C. López and F. Vazquez. Species exclusion and coexistence in a noisy voter model with a competition-colonization tradeoff. Physical Review E 103, 032406 (2021) (PDF).
C. Cabal, R. Martinez-Garcia, A. de Castro, F. Valladares, S.W. Pacala, Future paths for the exploitative segregation of plant roots. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 1891755 (2021) (PDF).
C. Cabal#, R. Martinez-Garcia, A. de Castro, F. Valladares, S.W. Pacala, The exploitative segregation of plant roots, Science 370 (6521), 1197-1199 (2020). Journal cover (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia, C.H. Fleming, R. Seppelt, W.F. Fagan and J.M. Calabrese#¨, How range-residency and long-range perception change encounter rates. J Theor Biol, 498, 110267, (2020) (PDF).
F. W. Rossine*, R. Martinez-Garcia*, A.E. Sgro, T. Gregor#, C.E. Tarnita#. Eco-evolutionary consequences of loners. PLoS Biology, 18(3), e3000642 (2020). (*equal contribution) (PDF).
E.H. Colombo#, R. Martinez-Garcia, C. López, E. Hernández-García, Spatial eco-evolutionary feedbacks mediate coexistence in prey-predator systems. Scientific Reports, 9, 18161 (1-15) (2019) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia, C.D. Nadell#, R. Hartmann, K. Drescher, J.A. Bonachela¨#. Cell adhesion and fluid flow jointly initiate genotype spatial distribution in biofilms. PLoS Comp Biol, 14(4): e1006094 (2018) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia and C.E. Tarnita#. Seasonality can induce coexistence of multiple bet-hedging strategies in Dictyostelium discoideum. J Theor Biol, 426, 104-116 (2017) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese and C. López. Online games: a novel approach to explore how partial information influences human random searches. Scientific Reports, 7, 40029 (2017) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia and C.E. Tarnita#. Lack of Ecological and Life History Context Can Create the Illusion of Social Interactions in Dictyostelium discoideum. PLoS Comp Biol 12(12): e1005246 (2016) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, C. Murgui, E. Hernández-García and C. López. Pattern formation in populations with density-dependent movement and two interaction scales. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132261 (2015) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, C. López and F. Vazquez. Optimal recruitment strategies in groups of interacting walkers with leaders. Phys Rev E, 91, 022117 (2015) (PDF).
C.E. Tarnita*#, A. Washburne*, R. Martinez-Garcia, A.E. Sgro and S.A. Levin. Fitness tradeoffs between spores and nonaggregating cells can explain the coexistence of diverse genotypes in cellular slime molds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 12(9), 2776-2781 (2015) (*co-first authors) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese, E. Hernández-García, and C. López. Minimal mechanisms for vegetation patterns in semiarid regions. Philos. T. R. Soc. A, 372(2027): 20140068 (2014) (PDF; preprint).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese, and C. López. Optimal search in interacting populations: Gaussian jumps versus Lévy flights. Phys Rev E, 89, 032718, (2014) (PDF; preprint).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese, T. Mueller, K.A. Olson and C. López. Optimizing the search for resources by sharing information: Mongolian gazelles as a case study. Phys Rev Lett, 110, 248106, (2013). Editor’s suggestion and Physics Focus highlight (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese, E. Hernández-García, and C. López. Vegetation pattern formation in semiarid systems without facilitative mechanisms. Geophys Res Lett, 40, 6143–6147, (2013) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, J.M. Calabrese and C. López. Spatial patterns in mesic savannas: the local facilitation limit and the role of demographic stochasticity. J Theor Biol, 333, 156-165, (2013) (PDF).
R. Martinez-Garcia#, F. Vázquez, C. López and M.A. Muñoz. Temporal disorder in up-down symmetric systems. Phys Rev E, 85, 051125, (2012) (PDF).
S. Brouard# and R. Martinez. Cavity-mediated entanglement between distant atoms: Effect of spatial dispersion. Phys Lett A. 375, 1640-1645, (2011) (PDF).
Book chapters
C López#, EH Colombo, E Hernández-García, R Martinez-Garcia. Spatial competition and repulsion: pattern formation and the role of movement. "The Mathematics of Movement: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mutual Challenges in Animal Ecology and Cell Biology", Chapter 11, Eds. Luca Giuggioli & Philip Maini. (Eds. Luca Giuggioli & Philip Maini), Springer Nature, Switzerland, (2026) .
C.H. Fleming#, W.F. Fagan, J.M. Alston, G. Anand, N. Hirama, E.Y. Lin, R. Martinez-Garcia, M.J. Noonan, J.M. Calabrese, Spatial Distributions for Animal Movement Processes. "The Mathematics of Movement: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mutual Challenges in Animal Ecology and Cell Biology", Chapter 7, Eds. Luca Giuggioli & Philip Maini. (Eds. Luca Giuggioli & Philip Maini), Springer Nature, Switzerland, (2026)
S. Vallina#, R. Martinez-Garcia, S.L. Smith, J.A. Bonachela. Models in microbial ecology. Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Elsevier. 4th edition (2019).