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Ecology

sudden shifts of an ecosystem to a contrasting state when gradual change crosses a threshold, often hard to reverse.

In ecology, critical transitions refers to sudden shifts of an ecosystem to a contrasting state when gradual change crosses a threshold, often hard to reverse. This meaning comes from Scheffer (2001) in Nature.[1]

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References

Scheffer, M., Carpenter, S., Foley, J. A., Folke, C., & Walker, B. (2001). Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. Nature, 413(6856), 591-596. https://doi.org/10.1038/35098000

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