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LIT-720: Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

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StatusUnavailable — registered 2026-10-05 from Crossref, not read: no lawful full text was found (Nature is closed; no repository or course copy was located). The authors' 2003 review (LIT-726), read in full, restates its theory of alternative stable states and gives the criteria for showing one exists. Filed because it is the paper usually cited for catastrophic regime shifts. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.
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Tagsecology, complex-systems
Extended byLIT-726 — Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation

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Marten Scheffer, Steve Carpenter, Jonathan A. Foley, Carl Folke & Brian Walker (2001), Nature 413(6856):591–596 — DOI-10.1038/35098000

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Registered, not read. What the record holds of its content comes from the 2003 review by two of its authors (LIT-726). That review cites it for the stability-landscape figures it reproduces and for the claim that reduced resilience leaves a system looking unchanged but “brittle”.

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Filed on 2026-10-05 at the owner’s request. The account is THEORY-136.

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