Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 223-228

  Rietkerk, Max ^a   Brovkin, Victor ^b   van Bodegom, Peter M ^c   Claussen, Martin ^b   Dekker, Stefan C ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a   Goryachkin, Sergey V ^d   Kabat, Pavel ^e   van Nes, Egbert H ^e   Neutel, Anje Margriet ^f   Nicholson, Sharon E ^g   Nobre, Carlos ^h   Petoukhov, Vladimir ⁱ   Provenzale, Antonello ^j   Scheffer, Marten ^e   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^k  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

ⁱ POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j CNR   (Italy)

^k Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Climate; Complexity; Ecosystems; Feedbacks; Hierarchy; Scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960718752     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.03.001     Document Type: Note

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