Long‐term empirical evidence, early warning signals and multiple drivers of regime shifts in a lake ecosystem

H Su, R Wang, Y Feng, Y Li, Y Li, J Chen… - … of Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Catastrophic regime shifts in various ecosystems are increasing with the intensification of …
-stability was observed in the forward collapse. We provide direct evidence of regime shifts for …

Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems

GS Cooper, S Willcock, JA Dearing - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
… -catastrophic shifts (eg WSP) and catastrophic shifts where … to substantiate the empirical
relationship observed in Fig. 1. … duration of 42 observed Earth system regime shifts is described …

Detecting regime shifts in communities using estimated rates of change

EJ Pedersen, M Koen-Alonso… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Regime shifts (periods of rapid change punctuating longer periods of lower variability) are
observed in a wide range of ecosystems, and effective fisheries management requires the …

Causal drivers of climate‐mediated coral reef regime shifts

S Arif, NAJ Graham, S Wilson, MA MacNeil - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… In our review of all coral reef regime shifts, we found that observational studies did not
apply causal inference (Appendix S1: Section S3). Whereas some studies did not include any …

A spatial regime shift from predator to prey dominance in a large coastal ecosystem

JS Eklöf, G Sundblad, M Erlandsson, S Donadi… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
… However, theory 30 and observations 33 suggest that if the consumers are instead … regime
shifts. Here we describe a spatial shift from a predator- to prey-dominated marine ecosystem

Spatial early warning signals for impending regime shifts: A practical framework for application in real‐world landscapes

JJ Nijp, AJAM Temme, GAK van Voorn… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to interfere and avoid catastrophic shifts, but also to induce regime shifts that move ecosystems
to a … The same three-phase mosaic is observed in many other parts of the Sahel region, …

Regime shifts, trends, and variability of lake productivity at a global scale

LJ Gilarranz, A Narwani, D Odermatt… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… consequences for ecosystems and human activities of abrupt shifts, … regime shifts, yet the
occurrence of observed regime shifts is … the occurrence of regime shifts and the socioeconomic …

Regime shift dynamics, tipping points and the success of fisheries management

AM Blöcker, HM Gutte, RL Bender, SA Otto… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… we show that regime shift dynamics exist in all six fish stocks as a response to changes in …
We observed similar patterns in all species, except for haddock. For plaice, saithe and cod a …

Macroalgal forests and sea urchin barrens: Structural complexity loss, fisheries exploitation and catastrophic regime shifts

R Melis, G Ceccherelli, L Piazzi, M Rustici - Ecological Complexity, 2019 - Elsevier
… The extra n parameter, as we can observe in the equation, allows to increase or decrease
the macroalgal growth rate and, consequently, change the S-shaped curve. In other words, we …

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

MG Turner, WJ Calder… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… strong integration of scientific approaches (theory, observations, experiments and process-…
points and regime shifts (eg [16]), but translating this theory to real-world ecosystems has …