Implications of spatial heterogeneity for catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1797-1807

  Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Lattice model; Mobile link organisms; Multiple attractors; Regime shifts; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HETEROGENEITY; HYSTERESIS;

EID: 21744459478     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0550     Document Type: Article

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