Hidden attractors in dynamical systems

D Dudkowski, S Jafari, T Kapitaniak, NV Kuznetsov… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Complex dynamical systems, ranging from the climate, ecosystems to financial markets and
engineering applications typically have many coexisting attractors. This property of the …

Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation

M Scheffer, SR Carpenter - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2003 - cell.com
Occasionally, surprisingly large shifts occur in ecosystems. Theory suggests that such shifts
can be attributed to alternative stable states. Verifying this diagnosis is important because it …

Global resilience of tropical forest and savanna to critical transitions

M Hirota, M Holmgren, EH Van Nes, M Scheffer - Science, 2011 - science.org
It has been suggested that tropical forest and savanna could represent alternative stable
states, implying critical transitions at tipping points in response to altered climate or other …

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

R Fu, L Yin, W Li, PA Arias… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
We have observed that the dry-season length (DSL) has increased over southern Amazonia
since 1979, primarily owing to a delay of its ending dates (dry-season end, DSE), and is …

How basin stability complements the linear-stability paradigm

PJ Menck, J Heitzig, N Marwan, J Kurths - Nature physics, 2013 - nature.com
The human brain,, power grids, arrays of coupled lasers and the Amazon rainforest, are all
characterized by multistability. The likelihood that these systems will remain in the most …

[图书][B] Critical transitions in nature and society

M Scheffer - 2020 - books.google.com
How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and
society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive …

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

CER Lehmann, SA Archibald, WA Hoffmann… - New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We aimed to identify the limits of savanna across Africa, Australia and South America. We
based our investigation on the rich history of hypotheses previously examined: that the limits …

Brazil's neglected biome: the South Brazilian Campos

GE Overbeck, SC Müller, A Fidelis… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2007 - Elsevier
The South Brazilian grasslands occupy some 13.7 million ha and support very high levels of
biodiversity. This paper reviews the current state of ecological knowledge on South Brazilian …

Tree cover in sub‐Saharan Africa: rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

AC Staver, S Archibald, S Levin - Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Savannas are known as ecosystems with tree cover below climate‐defined equilibrium
values. However, a predictive framework for understanding constraints on tree cover is …

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

BP Murphy, DMJS Bowman - Ecology letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 748–758 Abstract Forest and savanna biomes dominate the
tropics, yet factors controlling their distribution remain poorly understood. Climate is clearly …