Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 17546-17551

  Dakos, Vasilis ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical transition; Ecological networks; Mutualism; Pollinator decline; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYMBIOSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT; POLLINATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84917679926     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406326111     Document Type: Article

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