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SUBMITTER: Cooper GS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7064493 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cooper Gregory S GS Willcock Simon S Dearing John A JA
Nature communications 20200310 1
Regime shifts can abruptly affect hydrological, climatic and terrestrial systems, leading to degraded ecosystems and impoverished societies. While the frequency of regime shifts is predicted to increase, the fundamental relationships between the spatial-temporal scales of shifts and their underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here we analyse empirical data from terrestrial (n = 4), marine (n = 25) and freshwater (n = 13) environments and show positive sub-linear empirical relationships be ...[more]