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Egbert H van Nes1, Babak M S Arani2, Arie Staal2, Bregje van der Bolt2, Bernardo M Flores2, Sebastian Bathiany2, Marten Scheffer2.
Abstract
Over the past 10 years the use of the term 'tipping point' in the scientific literature has exploded. It was originally used loosely as a metaphor for the phenomenon that, beyond a certain threshold, runaway change propels a system to a new state. Although several specific mathematical definitions have since been proposed, we argue that these are too narrow and that it is better to retain the original definition.Keywords: alternative stable states; basin of attraction; critical slowing down; critical transitions; resilience
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27793466 DOI： 10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN： 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712