Flickering as an early warning signal

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-317

  Dakos, Vasilis ^a   van Nes, Egbert H ^b   Scheffer, Marten ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Critical slowing down; Critical transition; Regime shift; Resilience; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIFURCATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; PROBABILITY; SIGNALING; SKEWNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84880696812     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-013-0186-4     Document Type: Article

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