Early warning signals have limited applicability to empirical lake data

Abstract Research aimed at identifying indicators of persistent abrupt shifts in ecological communities, a.k.a regime shifts, has led to the development of a suite of early warning signals (EWSs). As these often perform inaccurately when applied to real-world observational data, it remains unclear w...

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Main Authors: Duncan A. O’Brien, Smita Deb, Gideon Gal, Stephen J. Thackeray, Partha S. Dutta, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Linda May, Christopher F. Clements
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43744-8