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’ will ma...

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Main Authors: Sanchez, Alvaro, Dai, Lei, Gore, Jeff, Chen, Andrew I.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98065
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8018-9701
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4583-8555