Resilience of alternative states in spatially extended ecosystems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Van De Leemput, Ingrid A ^a   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYSTERESIS; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; MORTALITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ECOSYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84923899615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116859     Document Type: Article

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