Early warning signals of regime shifts from cross-scale connectivity of land-cover patterns

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 549-560

  Zurlini, Giovanni ^a   Jones, Kenneth Bruce ^b   Riitters, Kurt Hans ^c   Li, Bai Lian ^d   Petrosillo, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross scale patterns; Desertification processes; Early warning signals; Neutral landscape models; Rigidity traps

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS;

CHARACTERISTIC SEQUENCE; CROSS-SCALE PATTERNS; EARLY WARNING; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; LAND ADMINISTRATION; LANDSCAPE MODEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PATTERN TRANSITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84902530640     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.05.018     Document Type: Article

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