Variance as a Leading Indicator of Regime Shift in Ecosystem Services

Many environmental conflicts involve pollutants such as greenhouse gas emissions that are dispersed through space and cause losses of ecosystem services. As pollutant emissions rise in one place, a spatial cascade of declining ecosystem services can spread across a larger landscape because of the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: William A. Brock, Stephen R. Carpenter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2006-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art9/