Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift.

Regime shifts are generally defined as the point of 'abrupt' change in the state of a system. However, a seemingly abrupt transition can be the product of a system reorganization that has been ongoing much longer than is evident in statistical analysis of a single component of the system....

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Main Authors: Trisha L Spanbauer, Craig R Allen, David G Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Sherilyn C Fritz, Ahjond S Garmestani, Kirsty L Nash, Jeffery R Stone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4184814?pdf=render