Beyond realism in climate change experiments: Gradient approaches identify thresholds and tipping points

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kreyling, Juergen ^a   Jentsch, Anke ^a   Beier, Claus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Experimental design; Extreme events; Field experiment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTREME EVENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTREME EVENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84890557603     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12193     Document Type: Article

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