Evidencing a regime shift in the North Sea using early-warning signals as indicators of critical transitions

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 152, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-72

  Wouters, N ^a,b   Dakos, V ^c   Edwards, M ^d   Serafim, M P ^a   Valayer, P J ^b   Cabral, H N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa ^*  (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diatom; Early warning signals; North sea; Phytoplankton; Regime shift; Resilience

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BOOTSTRAPPING; COLOR; DIATOM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERCID; PLANKTON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84912553444     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2014.10.017     Document Type: Article

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