Connectivity-Mediated Ecohydrological Feedbacks and Regime Shifts in Drylands

Rainfall intermittency and vegetation feedbacks in drylands

We discuss a simplifed, conceptual model for the dynamics of the soil-vegetation system in drylands. The model considers the different dynamical processes taking place in vegetated and non-vegetated soil and it distinguishes between the upper soil layer, where rapid evaporation dominates, and the deeper root layer where only plant transpiration takes place. We explore the role of rainfall inter...

Ecohydrological interactions in a degraded two-phase mosaic dryland: implications for regime shifts, resilience, and restoration

In the semi-arid rangelands of north central Kenya, the abundance of grasses has declined over recent decades. Concomitantly, the native succulent herb Sansevieria volkensii has greatly proliferated in many areas. Landscape structure has thus shifted from contiguous herbaceous cover to large, dense stands of S. volkensii with interpatches of bare or sparsely vegetated ground. Local pastoralists...

Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions

Redox regime shifts in microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycles

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Regime Shifts and Volatility Spillovers

A standard capital asset pricing model is extended to allow for stochastic shifts in the volatility of the news process. This model is then estimated on bivariate stock market data to separate two exogenous news processes – a world and a domestic. The results indicate that the influence of the world news process on the Swedish stock market has increased significantly over the period 1970-1995. ...