Resilience indicators: Prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1659, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Dakos, Vasilis ^a   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b   van Nes, Egbert H ^c   Scheffer, Maórten ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Critical slowing down; Critical transition; Regime shift; Resilience; Tipping point

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 84911923629     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0263     Document Type: Article

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