Resilience, regime shifts, and guided transition under climate change: Examining the practical difficulties of managing continually changing systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Brenda B ^a   Petersen, Brian ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Ecosystem structure; Resilience management; Species composition; Unidirectional shifts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84876756009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05128-180128     Document Type: Article

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