Regime Shifts in Lake Ecosystems
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Regime Shifts in Lake Ecosystems is an influential ecological work that analyzes how lakes can abruptly transition between alternative stable states due to environmental change and human impacts, with implications for ecosystem management and resilience.
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| Regime Shifts in Lake Ecosystems canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
academic monograph
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ecology book ⓘ scientific book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve understanding of abrupt ecological change
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inform ecosystem management decisions ⓘ support prevention of undesirable lake regime shifts ⓘ |
| appliesConcept |
alternative stable states to lake ecosystems
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nonlinear dynamics to ecosystem management ⓘ resilience to freshwater systems ⓘ |
| describes |
abrupt transitions between alternative stable states in lakes
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effects of nutrient loading on lake states ⓘ feedback mechanisms maintaining clear-water and turbid states ⓘ impacts of human activities on lake regimes ⓘ management strategies to prevent undesirable regime shifts ⓘ restoration challenges once a regime shift has occurred ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
difficulty of reversing regime shifts
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importance of resilience in ecological systems ⓘ need to detect approaching thresholds ⓘ role of feedback loops in maintaining ecosystem states ⓘ |
| field |
ecology
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ecosystem ecology ⓘ limnology ⓘ resilience theory ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human-induced environmental change
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interactions between nutrients, plants, and fish in lakes ⓘ long-term dynamics of shallow lakes ⓘ shifts between clear and turbid water states ⓘ |
| hasImplication |
adaptive ecosystem management
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biodiversity conservation in freshwater systems ⓘ lake restoration policy ⓘ sustainable use of freshwater resources ⓘ water quality management ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of resilience-based management frameworks
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lake ecosystem modeling ⓘ research on alternative stable states in ecology ⓘ theory of critical transitions in complex systems ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
alternative stable states
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early warning signals of regime shifts ⓘ ecosystem management ⓘ ecosystem resilience ⓘ eutrophication ⓘ hysteresis in ecosystems ⓘ lake ecosystems ⓘ nonlinear ecological dynamics ⓘ regime shifts ⓘ shallow lakes ⓘ thresholds in ecological systems ⓘ |
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