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SUBMITTER: Horan RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3088591 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horan Richard D RD Fenichel Eli P EP Drury Kevin L S KL Lodge David M DM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110418 18
Many ecosystems appear subject to regime shifts--abrupt changes from one state to another after crossing a threshold or tipping point. Thresholds and their associated stability landscapes are determined within a coupled socioeconomic-ecological system (SES) where human choices, including those of managers, are feedback responses. Prior work has made one of two assumptions about managers: that they face no institutional constraints, in which case the SES may be managed to be fairly robust to shoc ...[more]