Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

Tipping points in complex systems may imply risks of unwanted collapse, but also
opportunities for positive change. Our capacity to navigate such risks and opportunities can …

Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major ocean current
system transporting warm surface waters toward the northern Atlantic, has been suggested …

Ecological resilience is the ability of a system to persist in the face of perturbations. Although
resilience has been a highly influential concept, its interpretation has remained largely …

Many dynamical systems, including lakes, organisms, ocean circulation patterns, or financial
markets, are now thought to have tipping points where critical transitions to a contrasting …

Complex dynamical systems, ranging from ecosystems to financial markets and the climate,
can have tipping points at which a sudden shift to a contrasting dynamical regime may …

The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than
one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

A tipping point occurs when an external forcing causes a qualitative change in a system.
Human-induced climate change could push several large elements of the climate system …

Catastrophic ecological regime shifts may be announced in advance by statistical early
warning signals such as slowing return rates from perturbation and rising variance. The …