Vegetation recovery in tidal marshes reveals critical slowing down under increased inundation

oleh: Jim van Belzen, Johan van de Koppel, Matthew L. Kirwan, Daphne van der Wal, Peter M. J. Herman, Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kéfi, Marten Scheffer, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Tjeerd J. Bouma

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01

Deskripsi

Theory and controlled experiments have shown that the recovery rate of an ecological variable from perturbation slows down before a critical tipping point. Here, van Belzen and colleagues demonstrate that slowed vegetation recovery to disturbance is also apparent in the natural system of a tidal marsh.