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Ecological resilience: what to measure and how by Dakos, Vasilis, Kéfi, Sonia

“…Abstract The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined…”
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Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities by Dakos, Vasilis, Bascompte, Jordi

“…Tipping points are crossed when small changes in external conditions cause abrupt unexpected responses in the current state of a system. In the case of…”
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Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change by Forzieri, Giovanni, Dakos, Vasilis, McDowell, Nate G., Ramdane, Alkama, Cescatti, Alessandro

“…Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience) 1 . Experimental…”
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Unveiling dimensions of stability in complex ecological networks by Domínguez-García, Virginia, Dakos, Vasilis, Kéfi, Sonia

“…Understanding the stability of ecological communities is a matter of increasing importance in the context of global environmental change. Yet it has proved to…”
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Advancing our understanding of ecological stability by Kéfi, Sonia, Domínguez‐García, Virginia, Donohue, Ian, Fontaine, Colin, Thébault, Elisa, Dakos, Vasilis, Coulson, Tim

“…The concept of ecological stability occupies a prominent place in both fundamental and applied ecological research. We review decades of work on the topic and…”
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Nature’s dynamical complexity by Dakos, Vasilis

“…A large-scale, cross-taxa analysis reveals high nonlinearity and limited long-term predictability in the dynamics of animal populations…”
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Sources of confusion in global biodiversity trends by Boënnec, Maëlys, Dakos, Vasilis, Devictor, Vincent

“…Populations and ecological communities are changing worldwide, and empirical studies exhibit a mixture of either declining or mixed trends. Confusion in global…”
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Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition by Scheffer, Marten, Carpenter, Stephen R, Dakos, Vasilis, van Nes, Egbert H

“…Ecological resilience is the ability of a system to persist in the face of perturbations. Although resilience has been a highly influential concept, its…”
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Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts by Dakos, Vasilis, Carpenter, Stephen R., van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten

“…In the vicinity of tipping points—or more precisely bifurcation points—ecosystems recover slowly from small perturbations. Such slowness may be interpreted as…”
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Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state by Wang, Rong, Dearing, John A., Langdon, Peter G., Zhang, Enlou, Yang, Xiangdong, Dakos, Vasilis, Scheffer, Marten

“…Critical transitions in experimental and theoretical systems can be anticipated on the basis of specific warning signs, with ‘critical slowing down’ being the…”
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Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world by Dakos, Vasilis, Matthews, Blake, Hendry, Andrew P., Levine, Jonathan, Loeuille, Nicolas, Norberg, Jon, Nosil, Patrik, Scheffer, Marten, De Meester, Luc

“…There is growing concern over tipping points arising in ecosystems because of the crossing of environmental thresholds. Tipping points lead to abrupt and…”
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Anticipating Critical Transitions by Scheffer, Marten, Carpenter, Stephen R., Lenton, Timothy M., Bascompte, Jordi, Brock, William, Dakos, Vasilis, van de Koppel, Johan, van de Leemput, Ingrid A., Levin, Simon A., van Nes, Egbert H., Pascual, Mercedes, Vandermeer, John

“…Tipping points in complex systems may imply risks of unwanted collapse, but also opportunities for positive change. Our capacity to navigate such risks and…”
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Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system by Veraart, Annelies J., Faassen, Elisabeth J., Dakos, Vasilis, van Nes, Egbert H., Lürling, Miquel, Scheffer, Marten

“…Decreased rates of recovery from perturbations, or critical slowing down, are demonstrated in a living system, indicating that recovery rates can be used to…”
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Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns by Kéfi, Sonia, Guttal, Vishwesha, Brock, William A, Carpenter, Stephen R, Ellison, Aaron M, Livina, Valerie N, Seekell, David A, Scheffer, Marten, van Nes, Egbert H, Dakos, Vasilis

“…A number of ecosystems can exhibit abrupt shifts between alternative stable states. Because of their important ecological and economic consequences, recent…”
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Early-warning signals for critical transitions by Scheffer, Marten, Bascompte, Jordi, Brock, William A., Brovkin, Victor, Carpenter, Stephen R., Dakos, Vasilis, Held, Hermann, van Nes, Egbert H., Rietkerk, Max, Sugihara, George

“…Tip-offs for tipping points Many complex systems, ranging from ecosystems to financial markets and the climate, can have critical thresholds or tipping points…”
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Observed trends in the magnitude and persistence of monthly temperature variability by Lenton, Timothy M., Dakos, Vasilis, Bathiany, Sebastian, Scheffer, Marten

“…Climate variability is critically important for nature and society, especially if it increases in amplitude and/or fluctuations become more persistent…”
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Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data by Dakos, Vasilis, Carpenter, Stephen R, Brock, William A, Ellison, Aaron M, Guttal, Vishwesha, Ives, Anthony R, Kéfi, Sonia, Livina, Valerie, Seekell, David A, van Nes, Egbert H, Scheffer, Marten

“…Many dynamical systems, including lakes, organisms, ocean circulation patterns, or financial markets, are now thought to have tipping points where critical…”
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Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems by Veldhuis, Michiel P., Martinez‐Garcia, Ricardo, Deblauwe, Vincent, Dakos, Vasilis

“…Regular vegetation patterns have been predicted to indicate a system slowing down and possibly desertification of drylands. However, these predictions have not…”
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Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down by Dakos, Vasilis, van Nes, Egbert H, D'Odorico, Paolo, Scheffer, Marten

“…Ecosystems close to a critical threshold lose resilience, in the sense that perturbations can more easily push them into an alternative state. Recently, it has…”
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A holistic view of marine regime shifts by Conversi, Alessandra, Dakos, Vasilis, Gårdmark, Anna, Ling, Scott, Folke, Carl, Mumby, Peter J., Greene, Charles, Edwards, Martin, Blenckner, Thorsten, Casini, Michele, Pershing, Andrew, Möllmann, Christian

“…Understanding marine regime shifts is important not only for ecology but also for developing marine management that assures the provision of ecosystem services…”
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