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Selected
D. Pinto-Ramos & R. Martinez-Garcia#. How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems. Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA 123 (14) e2511994123 (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, 28:e70269 (2025) (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. 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).
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).
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, 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).
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).
Chronological
D. Pinto-Ramos & R. Martinez-Garcia#. How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems. Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA 123 (14) e2511994123 (2026) (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. Journal of Theoretical Biology 112471, in press (2026) (PDF).
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 626, 112441 (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 28:e70269 (2025) (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).
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, 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).