Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems

Little is known about how the speed of ecosystem collapse depends on ecosystem size. Here, Cooper, Willcock et al. analyse empirical data and models finding that although regime shift duration increases with ecosystem size, this relationship saturates and even large ecosystems can collapse in a few...

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Main Authors: Gregory S. Cooper, Simon Willcock, John A. Dearing
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fe60ae2203a94abea322edd32a807727
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