Early-warning signals for critical transitions

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7260, 2009, Pages 53-59

  Scheffer, Marten ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^b   Brock, William A ^c   Brovkin, Victor ^e   Carpenter, Stephen R ^d   Dakos, Vasilis ^a   Held, Hermann ^f   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Rietkerk, Max ^g   Sugihara, George ^h  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Department of Economics ^*

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET; SIGNALING;

ASTHMA; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DISASTER; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FINANCE; GREENHOUSE; MARKET; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYMPTOM; THEORY; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SEIZURES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 69949088984     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08227     Document Type: Review

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