Regime Shifts

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Link to centre authors: Biggs, Oonsie, Blenckner, Thorsten, Folke, Carl, Gordon, Line, Norström, Albert, Nyström, Magnus, Peterson, Garry

Publication info: Biggs R, T Blenckner, C Folke, L Gordon, A Norström, M Nyström, GD Peterson. 2012. Regime Shifts. In: Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. A Hastings, L Gross (eds). University of California Press, Ewing, NJ, USA.

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Regime Shifts

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News & events

Sub-Saharan Africa has lost nearly a quarter of its biodiversity

The Anthropocene at 25 – from concept to paradigm shift

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Human Cognition and the Anthropocene

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