Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 264-271

  Dakos, Vasilis ^a   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^b   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Autocorrelation; Critical slowing down; Early warning signals; Fold bifurcation; Leading indicators; Noise; Resilience; Variance

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIFURCATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; NOISE; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84857308839     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0889.1     Document Type: Article

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