Avoiding ecosystem collapse in managed forest ecosystems

The dynamic regeneration niche of a forest following a rare disturbance event

(2016) Annabel L. Smith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Assessing the persistence capacity of communities facing natural disturbances on the basis of species response traits

(2016) Martina Sánchez-Pinillos et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

(2016) I. Aubin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Integrating theory into disturbance interaction experiments to better inform ecosystem management

(2016) Claire N. Foster et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees

(2016) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

(2016) I. Aubin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

(2016) Johan Rockström et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Managing tree plantations as novel socioecological systems: Australian and North American perspectives

(2015) David Lindenmayer et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Forest resilience, tipping points and global change processes

(2015) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Modeling climate change, urbanization, and fire effects on Pinus palustris ecosystems of the southeastern U.S.

(2015) Jennifer K. Costanza et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Interactive effects of fire and large herbivores on web-building spiders

(2015) C. N. Foster et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement

(2015) John C. Z. Woinarski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates

(2015) David Lindenmayer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

From Management to Stewardship: Viewing Forests As Complex Adaptive Systems in an Uncertain World

(2015) C. Messier et al.   Conservation Letters

Ecosystem assessment of mountain ash forest in the Central Highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia

(2014) Emma L. Burns et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

(2014) Stephanie A. Pulsford et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Increasing forest loss worldwide from invasive pests requires new trade regulations

(2014) Bitty A Roy et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: A tipping point that may limit reef recovery

(2014) D. L. Dixson et al.   SCIENCE

Historic disturbance regimes promote tree diversity only under low browsing regimes in eastern deciduous forest

(2013) Tim Nuttle et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Human impacts on multiple ecological networks act synergistically to drive ecosystem collapse

(2013) Alfonso Valiente-Banuet et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses

(2013) David MJS Bowman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations

(2013) Lei Dai et al.   NATURE

Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse

(2013) A. S. MacDougall et al.   NATURE

Self-reinforcing impacts of plant invasions change over time

(2013) Stephanie G. Yelenik et al.   NATURE

Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

(2013) David A. Keith et al.   PLoS One

Ecosystem greenspots: identifying potential drought, fire, and climate-change micro-refuges

(2012) Brendan Mackey et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

(2012) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

A Battle Lost? Report on Two Centuries of Invasion and Management of Lantana camara L. in Australia, India and South Africa

(2012) Shonil A. Bhagwat et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Potential for range expansion of mountain pine beetle into the boreal forest of North America

(2011) L. Safranyik et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Early warnings of unknown nonlinear shifts: a nonparametric approach

(2011) S. R. Carpenter et al.   ECOLOGY

Revisiting climate thresholds and ecosystem collapse

(2011) Peter J Mumby et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest

(2011) CATHERINE I. CULLINGHAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem

(2011) Kenneth T. Frank et al.   NATURE

Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

(2011) Anthony L. Westerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

(2010) Alan Hastings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Thresholds and the Mismatch between Environmental Laws and Ecosystems

(2009) MALCOLM L. HUNTER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Indicators of regime shifts in ecological systems: What do we need to know and when do we need to know it

(2009) Raphael Contamin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it

(2009) Reinette Biggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring

(2009) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improving ecological monitoring

(2009) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Crossing habitat boundaries: coupling dynamics of ecosystems through complex life cycles

(2008) Sebastian Schreiber et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Robust Technique for Mapping Vegetation Condition Across a Major River System

(2008) S. C. Cunningham et al.   ECOSYSTEMS