Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: Evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2633-2645

  Ratajczak, Zak ^a   Nippert, Jesse B ^a   Ocheltree, Troy W ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Bi stability; Bush encroachment; Catastrophic shifts; Critical transitions; Dynamical systems; Fold bifurcation; Grassland woodland transitions; Shrub encroachment; Tallgrass prairie; Tipping points; Woody encroachment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84907211101     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1369.1     Document Type: Article

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