Managing ecological thresholds in coupled environmental-human systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7333-7338

  Horan, Richard D ^a   Fenichel, Eli P ^b   Drury, Kevin L S ^c   Lodge, David M ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BETHEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Bioeconomics; Invasive species; Multistability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRAYFISH; ECOSYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHERIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79956330113     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005431108     Document Type: Article

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