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  title info:
    title: Multiple stable states in natural ecosystems
  name:
    name part: Petraitis, Peter Steven
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Many natural systems such as coral reefs and tropical forests are undergoing rapid changes that appear without warning and seem irreversible. This book presents a clear and concise overview of the ecological theory that has been developed to explain these sudden changes and provides a number of compelling examples. One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is well understood, but whether multiple stable states actually exist in nature has remained a hotly-debated subject. Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems provides a broad and synthetic critique of recent advances in theory and new experimental evidence. Modern models of systems with multiple stable states are placed in historical context. Current theories are covered in a rigourous fashion with the specific goal of identifying testable predictions about multiple stable states.
  table of contents: Introduction -- What theory actually tells us about multiple stable states -- Detection of multiple stable states -- Experimental evidence -- Catastrophe theory -- Hallmarks of catastrophes -- Other modeling approaches -- Four common misconceptions -- Using temporal and spatial patterns as evidence -- Where do we go from here?
  note: Peter Petraitis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Biotic communities
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity conservation
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversité
    topic: Conservation
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Ecosystems & Habitats
    topic: Wilderness
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Environmental Science
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity conservation
  subject:
    topic: Biotic communities
  subject:
    topic: Populationsekologi
  classification: QH541
  classification: 577.8/2
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    title info:
      title: Multiple stable states in natural ecosystems
    name:
      name part: Petraitis, Peter Steven.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2013427195
    identifier: (OCoLC)825181239
  identifier: 9780191668333
  identifier: 0191668338
  identifier: 9781299467019
  identifier: 1299467016
  identifier: 9780199569342
  identifier: 0199569347
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  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 130416
    record change date: 20260318191932.6
    record identifier: in00005709628
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng