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SUBMITTER: van Belzen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5472773 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Belzen Jim J van de Koppel Johan J Kirwan Matthew L ML van der Wal Daphne D Herman Peter M J PMJ Dakos Vasilis V Kéfi Sonia S Scheffer Marten M Guntenspergen Glenn R GR Bouma Tjeerd J TJ
Nature communications 20170609
A declining rate of recovery following disturbance has been proposed as an important early warning for impending tipping points in complex systems. Despite extensive theoretical and laboratory studies, this 'critical slowing down' remains largely untested in the complex settings of real-world ecosystems. Here, we provide both observational and experimental support of critical slowing down along natural stress gradients in tidal marsh ecosystems. Time series of aerial images of European marsh dev ...[more]