Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems
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Self-organized patchiness and catastrophic shifts in ecosystems.
Unexpected sudden catastrophic shifts may occur in ecosystems, with concomitant losses or gains of ecological and economic resources. Such shifts have been theoretically attributed to positive feedback and bistability of ecosystem states. However, verifications and predictive power with respect to catastrophic responses to a changing environment are lacking for spatially extensive ecosystems. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101867