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Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently
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From scientific speculation to effective adaptive management: A case study of the role of social marketing in promoting novel restoration strategies for degraded dry lands
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Resilience: Accounting for the noncomputable
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1669):2871-2880 [full text]
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Theoretical Ecology 2 (3):171-176 [full text]
Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate
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A safe operating space for humanity
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Pulse-driven loss of top-down control: The critical-rate hypothesis
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Ecosystems 11 (2):226-237 [full text]
Adaptive management of the great barrier reef and the Grand Canyon world heritage areas
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Scheffer, M. & van Nes, E.H. (2007)
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The evolutionary basis of rigidity: locks in cells, minds, and society
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Cascading effects of overfishing marine systems
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Global Change Biology 11 (7):1003-1012 [full text]
Implications of spatial heterogeneity for regime shifts in ecosystems
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Ecology 86 (7):1797–1807 [full text]
Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management
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Overexploitation of renewable resources by ancient societies and the role of sunk-cost effects
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Large species shifts triggered by small forces
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Sunk-cost effects and vulnerability to collapse in ancient societies
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Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (12):648-656 [full text]
Floating plant dominance as a stable state
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 100 (7):4040-4045 [full text]
Slow response of societies to new problems: Causes and costs
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Ecosystems 6 (5):493-502 [full text]
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
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Nature 413:591-596 [full text]
Socioeconomic mechanisms preventing optimum use of ecosystem services: an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis
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Alternative equilibria in shallow lakes
Scheffer, M., Hosper, S.H., Meijer, M.L., Moss, B. & Jeppesen, E. (1993)
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8 (8):275-279 [full text]
Multiplicity of stable states in freshwater systems
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Alternative stable states in eutrophic, shallow freshwater systems: a minimal model
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