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Beyond realism in climate change experiments: gradient approaches identify thresholds and tipping points
Author(s) -
Kreyling Juergen,
Jentsch Anke,
Beier Claus
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ecology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.852
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1461-0248
pISSN - 1461-023X
DOI - 10.1111/ele.12193
Subject(s) - climate change , ecosystem , tipping point (physics) , environmental science , ecology , constraint (computer aided design) , environmental resource management , scaling , biology , mathematics , geometry , electrical engineering , engineering
Experimental evidence for impacts of increased climatic variability and extremes on ecosystems is urgently needed. The constraint in our knowledge, however, is not caused by the uncertainty in the applied climate scenarios. We need mechanistic understanding from experiments challenging ecological thresholds coupled with ecosystem models to allow for meaningful up‐scaling.