A test of critical thresholds and their indicators in a desertification-prone ecosystem: more resilience than we thought

Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

(2012) Vasilis Dakos et al.   PLoS One

Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse

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Anticipating Critical Transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   SCIENCE

Slowing Down in Spatially Patterned Ecosystems at the Brink of Collapse

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems

(2011) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

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

Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

(2011) Brandon T. Bestelmeyer et al.   Ecosphere

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Reply

(2010) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY

Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction

(2010) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Identifying Thresholds for Ecosystem-Based Management

(2010) Jameal F. Samhouri et al.   PLoS One

Spatial and temporal signatures of fragility and threshold proximity in modelled semi-arid vegetation

(2010) R. M. Bailey   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

(2009) Gregory S. Okin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY

Experimental confirmation of multiple community states in a marine ecosystem

(2009) Peter S. Petraitis et al.   OECOLOGIA

Threshold models in restoration and conservation: a developing framework

(2009) Katharine N. Suding et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

(2009) F. Stuart Chapin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rotational Grazing on Rangelands: Reconciliation of Perception and Experimental Evidence

(2008) D.D. Briske et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification

(2008) Tom Andersen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION