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 occur. Although predicting such critical points before they are reached is extremely difficult, work in different scientific fields is now suggesting the existence of generic early-warning signals that may indicate for a wide class of systems if a critical threshold is approaching.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Scheffer2009
%A Scheffer, Marten
%A Bascompte, Jordi
%A Brock, William A.
%A Brovkin, Victor
%A Carpenter, Stephen R.
%A Dakos, Vasilis
%A Held, Hermann
%A van Nes, Egbert H.
%A Rietkerk, Max
%A Sugihara, George
%D 2009
%I Nature Publishing Group
%J Nature
%K bifurcation critical-phenomena early-warning transitions
%N 7260
%P 53--59
%R 10.1038/nature08227
%T Early-warning signals for critical transitions
%V 461
%X 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 occur. Although predicting such critical points before they are reached is extremely difficult, work in different scientific fields is now suggesting the existence of generic early-warning signals that may indicate for a wide class of systems if a critical threshold is approaching.
@article{Scheffer2009,
abstract = {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 occur. Although predicting such critical points before they are reached is extremely difficult, work in different scientific fields is now suggesting the existence of generic early-warning signals that may indicate for a wide class of systems if a critical threshold is approaching.},
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author = {Scheffer, Marten and Bascompte, Jordi and Brock, William A. and Brovkin, Victor and Carpenter, Stephen R. and Dakos, Vasilis and Held, Hermann and van Nes, Egbert H. and Rietkerk, Max and Sugihara, George},
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doi = {10.1038/nature08227},
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journal = {Nature},
keywords = {bifurcation critical-phenomena early-warning transitions},
number = 7260,
pages = {53--59},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
timestamp = {2011-11-22T13:20:11.000+0100},
title = {Early-warning signals for critical transitions},
volume = 461,
year = 2009
}