Conditional Heteroskedasticity Forecasts Regime Shift in a Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 741-747

  Seekell, David A ^a   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b   Cline, Timothy J ^b   Pace, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

conditional heteroskedasticity; early warning; ecosystem experiment; Lagrange multiplier test; leading indicator; moving window analysis; regime shift

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; SIGNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864770513     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9542-2     Document Type: Article

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