Open AccessMarine regime shifts around the globe: theory, drivers and impacts
Author(s) -
Christian Möllmann,
Carl Folke,
Martin Edwards,
Alessandra Conversi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2013.0260
Subject(s) - globe , ecology , biology , geography , environmental science , oceanography , geology , neuroscience
Sudden, dramatic, long-lasting shifts in ecosystem structure and function have been increasingly documented in multiple, diverse marine ecosystems around the globe [[1][1]–[21][2]]. Such regime shifts can be explained with theory on nonlinear systems crossing critical thresholds [[2][3],[22][4]].
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