Indicators of regime shifts in ecological systems: What do we need to know and when do we need to know it?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 799-816

  Contamin, Raphael ^a,b   Ellison, Aaron M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Hysteresis; Lakes; Management response; Regime shift; Simulation; Spectral density; Threshold; Time series

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; PHOSPHORUS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; TIME SERIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; SEDIMENT; SOIL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65349131829     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0109.1     Document Type: Article

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