Dynamics of a producer-freeloader ecosystem on the brink of collapse

Ecosystems can undergo sudden shifts to undesirable states, but recent studies with simple single-species ecosystems have demonstrated that advance warning can be provided by the slowing down of population dynamics near a tipping point. However, it is unclear how this 'critical slowing down...

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Main Authors: Sanchez, Alvaro (Contributor), Dai, Lei (Contributor), Gore, Jeff (Contributor), Chen, Andrew I. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2015-08-11T14:23:16Z.
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