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Ups and Downs in the Ocean: Effects of Biofouling on Vertical Transport of Microplastics by Kooi, Merel, Nes, Egbert H. van, Scheffer, Marten, Koelmans, Albert A

“…Recent studies suggest size-selective removal of small plastic particles from the ocean surface, an observation that remains unexplained. We studied one of the…”
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Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences by Runge, Jakob, Bathiany, Sebastian, Bollt, Erik, Camps-Valls, Gustau, Coumou, Dim, Deyle, Ethan, Glymour, Clark, Kretschmer, Marlene, Mahecha, Miguel D., Muñoz-Marí, Jordi, van Nes, Egbert H., Peters, Jonas, Quax, Rick, Reichstein, Markus, Scheffer, Marten, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Spirtes, Peter, Sugihara, George, Sun, Jie, Zhang, Kun, Zscheischler, Jakob

“…The heart of the scientific enterprise is a rational effort to understand the causes behind the phenomena we observe. In large-scale complex dynamical systems…”
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sudden collapse of pollinator communities by Lever, J. Jelle, Nes, Egbert H, Scheffer, Marten, Bascompte, Jordi, Jordan, Ferenc

“…Declines in pollinator populations may harm biodiversity and agricultural productivity. Little attention has, however, been paid to the systemic response of…”
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Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states by Xu, Chi, Hantson, Stijn, Holmgren, Milena, van Nes, Egbert H., Staal, Arie, Scheffer, Marten

“…Although canopy height has long been a focus of interest in ecology, it has remained difficult to study at large spatial scales. Recently, satellite-borne…”
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Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century by Staal, Arie, Fetzer, Ingo, Wang-Erlandsson, Lan, Bosmans, Joyce H. C., Dekker, Stefan C., van Nes, Egbert H., Rockström, Johan, Tuinenburg, Obbe A.

“…Tropical forests modify the conditions they depend on through feedbacks at different spatial scales. These feedbacks shape the hysteresis (history-dependence)…”
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Coral reefs in the Anthropocene by Hughes, Terry P., Barnes, Michele L., Bellwood, David R., Cinner, Joshua E., Cumming, Graeme S., Jackson, Jeremy B. C., Kleypas, Joanie, van de Leemput, Ingrid A., Lough, Janice M., Morrison, Tiffany H., Palumbi, Stephen R., van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten

“…Coral reefs support immense biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services to many millions of people. Yet reefs are degrading rapidly in response to…”
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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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Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon by Staal, Arie, Tuinenburg, Obbe A., Bosmans, Joyce H. C., Holmgren, Milena, van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten, Zemp, Delphine Clara, Dekker, Stefan C.

“…Tree transpiration in the Amazon may enhance rainfall for downwind forests. Until now it has been unclear how this cascading effect plays out across the basin…”
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Quantifying resilience of humans and other animals by Scheffer, Marten, Bolhuis, J. Elizabeth, Borsboom, Denny, Buchman, Timothy G., Gijzel, Sanne M. W., Goulson, Dave, Kammenga, Jan E., Kemp, Bas, van de Leemput, Ingrid A., Levin, Simon, Martin, Carmel Mary, Melis, René J. F., van Nes, Egbert H., Romero, L. Michael, Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde

“…All life requires the capacity to recover from challenges that are as inevitable as they are unpredictable. Understanding this resilience is essential for…”
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Superorganisms or loose collections of species? A unifying theory of community patterns along environmental gradients by Liautaud, Kevin, van Nes, Egbert H., Barbier, Matthieu, Scheffer, Marten, Loreau, Michel, Coulson, Tim

“…The question whether communities should be viewed as superorganisms or loose collections of individual species has been the subject of a long‐standing debate…”
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Bistability, Spatial Interaction, and the Distribution of Tropical Forests and Savannas by Staal, Arie, Dekker, Stefan C., Xu, Chi, van Nes, Egbert H.

“…Recent work has indicated that tropical forest and savanna can be alternative stable states under a range of climatic conditions. However, dynamical systems…”
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Resilience of tropical tree cover: The roles of climate, fire, and herbivory by Staal, Arie, Nes, Egbert H., Hantson, Stijn, Holmgren, Milena, Dekker, Stefan C., Pueyo, Salvador, Xu, Chi, Scheffer, Marten

“…Fires and herbivores shape tropical vegetation structure, but their effects on the stability of tree cover in different climates remain elusive. Here, we…”
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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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Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift by van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten

“…The size of the basin of attraction in ecosystems with alternative stable states is often referred to as “ecological resilience.” Ecosystems with a low…”
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Shallow lakes theory revisited: various alternative regimes driven by climate, nutrients, depth and lake size by Scheffer, Marten, van Nes, Egbert H

“…Shallow lakes have become the archetypical example of ecosystems with alternative stable states. However, since the early conception of that theory, the image…”
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Seeing a global web of connected systems by Scheffer, Marten, van Nes, Egbert H

“…Social-ecological shifts may often be causally linked The Arab Spring, the invention of penicillin, and the recent mass bleaching of coral reefs are reminders…”
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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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Five fundamental ways in which complex food webs may spiral out of control by Lever, J. Jelle, Van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten, Bascompte, Jordi

“…Abstract Theory suggests that increasingly long, negative feedback loops of many interacting species may destabilize food webs as complexity increases. Less…”
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Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs by van de Leemput, Ingrid A., Hughes, Terry P., van Nes, Egbert H., Scheffer, Marten

“…The prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs has been disputed, although there is universal agreement that many reefs have experienced substantial…”
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Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data by Nes, Egbert H, Hirota, Marina, Holmgren, Milena, Scheffer, Marten

“…It has recently been found that the frequency distribution of remotely sensed tree cover in the tropics has three distinct modes, which seem to correspond to…”
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