Reinette Biggs

Reinette "Oonsie" Biggs (* 1979 in Windhoek , Namibia ) is a South African ecologist and Earth system scientist . She conducts research at the Center for Studies in Complexity at Stellenbosch University .

education

Biggs studied Geography ( BSc ) at the University of South Africa and Applied Environmental Sciences ( BScHons ) at the University of Natal . She then completed a master's degree in environmental sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand and obtained his doctorate in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Limnology and Oceanography .

Act

Biggs' research is into regime change ; H. large, abrupt, long-lasting changes with dramatic effects on socio-ecological systems such as economies and societies. It deals with the resilience of such systems and tilting elements that lead to system changes.

In 2015, Biggs was one of those scientists whose contribution on planetary boundaries in the journal Science attracted worldwide attention.

Publications (selection)

• Reinette Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock : Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 106 (3), 2009, pp. 826-831, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0811729106 .
• Henrique M. Pereira, Paul W. Leadley, Vânia Proença, Rob Alkemade, Jörn PW Scharlemann, Juan F. Fernandez-Manjarrés, Miguel B. Araújo, Patricia Balvanera, Reinette Biggs, William WL Cheung, Louise Chini, H. David Cooper, Eric L. Gilman, Sylvie Guénette, George C. Hurtt, Henry P. Huntington, Georgina M. Mace, Thierry Oberdorff, Carmen Revenga, Patrícia Rodrigues, Robert J. Scholes, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Matt Walpole: Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. In: Science . 330 (6010), 2010, pp. 1496-1501, doi: 10.1126 / science.1196624 .
• Will Steffen , Katherine Richardson , Johan Rockström , Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter, Wim de Vries , Cynthia A. de Wit, Carl Folke , Dieter Gerten, Jens Heinke, Georgina M. Mace , Linn M. Persson , Veerabhadran Ramanathan , Belinda Reyers , Sverker Sörlin: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. In: Science . 347 (6223), 2015, p. 1259855, doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855 .

literature

• Elisabeth Pain: Testing Mother Earth's Resilience . In: Science . September 10, 2010, doi : 10.1126 / science.caredit.a1000088 (English).

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinette Biggs in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Entries for Reinette Biggs in the Google Scholar

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Branco Weiss Fellowship (2010). Society in Science Selects Three New Fellows , accessed December 30, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Staff Profile of Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs at the Stockholm Resilience Center , accessed December 30, 2018.
3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Stellenbosch Center for Complex Systems in Transition at Stellenbosch University
4. ^ Will Steffen et al .: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. In: Science . 347 (6223), 2015, p. 1259855, doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855 .