Anticipating Critical Transitions

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Early-warning signals for critical transitions

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Understanding the complexity of economic, ecological and social systems

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Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

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Confronting the coral reef crisis

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The nested assembly of plant–animal mutualistic networks

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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

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Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

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Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states

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Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance

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Systemic risk in banking ecosystems

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Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems

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Critical Transitions in Nature and Society

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Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

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Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

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Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

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Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

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Detection of multistability, bifurcations, and hysteresis in a large class of biological positive-feedback systems

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Rising variance: a leading indicator of ecological transition

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Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

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Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons

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Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory

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Ecology for bankers

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Critical transitions in nature and society

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Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it

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Ecological networks : Linking structure to dynamics in food webs

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Mobile Link Organisms and Ecosystem Functioning: Implications for Ecosystem Resilience and Management

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Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse

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Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species

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Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

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Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift

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Changing skewness: an early warning signal of regime shifts in ecosystems

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Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system

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Nonequilibrium phase transitions in coordinated biological motion: critical fluctuations

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Regime shifts in marine ecosystems: detection, prediction and management

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A universal law of the characteristic return time near thresholds

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A mathematical framework for critical transitions: Bifurcations, fast–slow systems and stochastic dynamics

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Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change

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Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts

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Tipping points: Early warning and wishful thinking

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Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

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Early warning of climate tipping points from critical slowing down: comparing methods to improve robustness

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IMPLICATIONS OF SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY FOR CATASTROPHIC REGIME SHIFTS IN ECOSYSTEMS

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Measuring Resilience in Stochastic Systems

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Causes and projections of abrupt climate‐driven ecosystem shifts in the North Atlantic

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Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability

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Criticality and disturbance in spatial ecological systems

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Prediction of epileptic seizures: are nonlinear methods relevant?

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The potential role of spectral properties in detecting thresholds in the Earth system: application to the thermohaline circulation

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A modified method for detecting incipient bifurcations in a dynamical system

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Potential analysis reveals changing number of climate states during the last 60 kyr

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Food web models: a plea for groups.

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Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information

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Critical slowing down at a bifurcation

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Phase transitions and complex systems: Simple, nonlinear models capture complex systems at the edge of chaos

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Correlations, risk and crisis: From physiology to finance

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Scaling Effects and Spatio-Temporal Multilevel Dynamics in Epileptic Seizures

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Climate tipping as a noisy bifurcation: a predictive technique

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Forecasting a class of bifurcations: Theory and experiment

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Symbolic time series analysis and dynamic regimes

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INCREASED SPATIAL VARIANCE ACCOMPANIES REORGANIZATION OF TWO CONTINENTAL SHELF ECOSYSTEMS

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Stabilization of unstable states, relaxation, and critical slowing down in a bistable system

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Empirical evidence of an approaching alternate state produced by intrinsic community dynamics, climatic variability and management actions

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Applications of Fisher Information to the Management of Sustainable Environmental Systems

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Critical Slowing-Down near the Transition Region from the Resting to Time-Ordered States in Squid Giant Axons

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Criticality in earthquakes. Good or bad for prediction?

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Financial Bubbles, Real Estate Bubbles, Derivative Bubbles, and the Financial and Economic Crisis

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Tracking Traders' Understanding of the Market Using e-Communication Data

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Buzzwords on their way to a tipping‐point: A view from the blogosphere

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About the Santa Fe Institute

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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

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An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

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Universal resilience patterns in complex networks

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Food system resilience: Defining the concept

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Resilience (Republished)

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Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

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Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression

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β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning

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Soil microbiota as game-changers in restoration of degraded lands

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Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

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Robustness and resilience of complex networks

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Social physics

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Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement

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Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

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Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches

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Spatiotemporal structure of cell fate decisions in murine neural crest

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Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition

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A Clinical Frailty Index in Aging Mice: Comparisons With Frailty Index Data in Humans

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Complexity theory and financial regulation

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Global Groundwater Sustainability, Resources, and Systems in the Anthropocene

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Beyond the “at risk mental state” concept: transitioning to transdiagnostic psychiatry

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Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

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Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

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Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system

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Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems

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Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

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Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

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Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics

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Ecological Impacts of Alien Species: Quantification, Scope, Caveats, and Recommendations

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Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

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Moving From Static to Dynamic Models of the Onset of Mental Disorder

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