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1. Full Text Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere
by Barnosky, Anthony D and Hadly, Elizabeth A and Bascompte, Jordi and Berlow, Eric L and Brown, James H and Fortelius, Mikael and Getz, Wayne M and Harte, John and Hastings, Alan and Marquet, Pablo A and Martinez, Neo D and Mooers, Arne and Roopnarine, Peter and Vermeij, Geerat and Williams, John W and Gillespie, Rosemary and Kitzes, Justin and Marshall, Charles and Matzke, Nicholas and Mindell, David P and Revilla, Eloy and Smith, Adam B
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 06/2012, Volume 486, Issue 7401, pp. 52 - 58
Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we... 
BIODIVERSITY | TRANSFORMATION | LATE-QUATERNARY VEGETATION | REGIME SHIFTS | EARLY-WARNING SIGNALS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HUMAN APPROPRIATION | CLIMATE-CHANGE | INTERACTION STRENGTH | EXTINCTION | DIVERSITY LOSS | Models, Theoretical | Environmental Monitoring | Animals | Ecosystem | Humans | Human Activities | Earth (Planet) | Forecasting | Climate Change - statistics & numerical data | Earth | Environmental aspects | Biosphere | Observations | Analysis | Power marketers | Lawn & garden services | Outsourcing | Budgets | State employees
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2. Full Text Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift
by Beck, Pieter S. A and Juday, Glenn P and Alix, Claire and Barber, Valerie A and Winslow, Stephen E and Sousa, Emily E and Heiser, Patricia and Herriges, James D and Goetz, Scott J
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 04/2011, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 373 - 379
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 373–379 Global vegetation models predict that boreal forests are particularly sensitive to a biome shift during the 21st century.... 
global warming | productivity | drought | Boreal forests | high latitudes | remote sensing | NDVI | evergreen forests | tree rings | Productivity | Tree rings | Evergreen forests | High latitudes | Global warming | Drought | Remote sensing | FIRE DISTURBANCE | CARBON | NORTHERN ALASKA | TREE GROWTH | BOREAL FOREST | CLIMATE-CHANGE | SATELLITE DATA | INTERIOR ALASKA | ECOLOGY | ECOSYSTEMS | VEGETATION | Climate Change | Droughts | Picea - growth & development | Ecosystem | History, 20th Century | Alaska | Trees - growth & development | Biomes | Dendroclimatology | Industrial productivity | Analysis | Humanities and Social Sciences | Archaeology and Prehistory
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3. Full Text Regeneration of montane forests 24 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires: A fire‐catalyzed shift in lower treelines?
by Donato, Daniel C and Harvey, Brian J and Turner, Monica G
Ecosphere, ISSN 2150-8925, 08/2016, Volume 7, Issue 8, pp. e01410 - n/a
Forests near the lower limit of montane tree cover are expected to be particularly vulnerable to warming climate, potentially converting to non‐forest for... 
lower‐montane forest | Rocky Mountains | ecotone | wildfire | Douglas‐fir | Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem | treeline | Pseudotsuga menziesii | climate change | UNITED-STATES | NATIONAL-PARK | BOREAL FOREST | lower-montane forest | CLIMATE-CHANGE | Douglas-fir | CONIFER REGENERATION | SUB-ALPINE FORESTS | GREATER YELLOWSTONE | SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA | ECOLOGY | LANDSCAPE PATTERNS | Wildfires | Forests | Biogeography | Forest & brush fires | Forest ecosystems | Forest fires | National parks | 21st century | Climate change | Hypotheses | Vegetation cover | Treeline | Vegetation | Montane environments | Parks & recreation areas
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4. Full Text Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
by Scheffer, M and Carpenter, S and Foley, J.A and Folke, C and Walker, B
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 2001, Volume 413, Issue 6856, pp. 591 - 596
All ecosystems are exposed to gradual changes in climate, nutrient loading, habitat fragmentation or biotic exploitation. Nature is usually assumed to respond... 
Leerstoelgroep Aquatische ecologie en waterkwaliteitsbeheer | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management | Aquatische Ecologie en Waterkwaliteitsbeheer | WIMEK | GRAZING SYSTEMS | SAHEL | PHASE-SHIFTS | MANAGEMENT | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | MULTIPLE STABLE STATES | DYNAMICS | ARABIAN PENINSULA | SHALLOW LAKES | VEGETATION | CLIMATE | Trees | Oceans and Seas | Animals | Stochastic Processes | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Cnidaria | Conservation of Natural Resources | Fresh Water | Desert Climate | Changes | Climate change | Ecosystems | Habitats
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5. Full Text A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation during the 20th Century
by J. Lenoir and J. C. Gégout and P. A. Marquet and P. de Ruffray and H. Brisse
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 6/2008, Volume 320, Issue 5884, pp. 1768 - 1771
Spatial fingerprints of climate change on biotic communities are usually associated with changes in the distribution of species at their latitudinal or... 
Climate change | Population ecology | Marine ecology | Mountain forests | Reports | Climate models | Ecology | Global warming | Plants | Species | Topographical elevation | UPHILL SHIFTS | FINGERPRINTS | RESPONSES | MARGIN | ALPINE PLANTS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | EXTENT | BUTTERFLIES | CLIMATE-CHANGE | GLOBAL CHANGE | RANGE | Geography | Trees | Climate | Temperature | Plant Development | Time Factors | Ecosystem | Europe | Environment | Biodiversity | Altitude | Environmental aspects | Altitudes | Forest flora | Research | Vegetation and climate | Distribution | Biogeography | Forests | Botany | Life Sciences | Cellular Biology
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6. Full Text Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high- to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition
by Chevalier, Manuel and Chase, Brian M
Quaternary Science Reviews, ISSN 0277-3791, 10/2015, Volume 125, pp. 117 - 130
Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions... 
ITCZ | Insolation forcing | Quaternary | Climate reconstruction | Southern Africa | Pollen | Palaeoclimatology | Holocene | East Africa | LATE QUATERNARY | PAST 25,000 YEARS | SAVANNA BIOME | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | HIGH-RESOLUTION | ROCK HYRAX MIDDENS | HOLOCENE CLIMATE-CHANGE | WINTER RAINFALL ZONE | VEGETATION DYNAMICS | LATE PLEISTOCENE | EARTHS ORBITAL PARAMETERS | Interglacial periods | Climate | Precipitation variability | Rain and rainfall | Environmental Sciences | Global Changes
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7. Full Text The role of plant–soil feedbacks in stabilizing a reindeer‐induced vegetation shift in subarctic tundra
by Egelkraut, Dagmar and Kardol, Paul and De Long, J and Olofsson, Johan and Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap and Umeå universitet and Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten
Functional Ecology, ISSN 0269-8463, 04/2018, Volume 32, Issue 8, pp. 1959 - 1971
1. Herbivory can drive vegetation into different states of productivity and community composition, and these changes may be stable over time due to historical... 
Global environmental change | Eco-evolutionary dynamics | international | alternative state, herbivory, historical contingency, legacy effects, plant–soil feedback, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer husbandry, vegetation composition | historical contingency | legacy effects | vegetation composition | Rangifer tarandus | reindeer husbandry | herbivory | plant–soil feedback | alternative state | METAANALYSIS | ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI | GRASSLAND | DEFOLIATION | COMMUNITIES | ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | COEXISTENCE | PRODUCTIVITY | ECOLOGY | plant-soil feedback | Caribou | Reindeer | Ecosystem components | Communities | Radiation | Positive feedback | Contingency | Soil conditions | Feedback | Milking | Nutrients | Species | Community composition | Plants (botany) | Landscape | Plant communities | Herbivory | Nitrogen | Plant populations | Soils | Soil stabilization | Plant growth | Vegetation | Vegetation changes | Nutrient availability | Herbivores | Herding | Tundra | Biological Sciences | Ecology | Naturvetenskap | Biologiska vetenskaper | lternative state | Rangifer randus | Natural Sciences | Ekologi
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8. Full Text Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California
: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks
by Patrick J. McIntyre and James H. Thorne and Christopher R. Dolanc and Alan L. Flint and Lorraine E. Flint and Maggi Kelly and David D. Ackerly
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 2/2015, Volume 112, Issue 5, pp. 1458 - 1463
We document changes in forest structure between historical (1930s) and contemporary (2000s) surveys of California vegetation through comparisons of tree... 
Climatic water deficit | Forest | Historical ecology | Global change | VEGETATION MORTALITY | climatic water deficit | forest | WESTERN UNITED-STATES | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | SPECIES OPTIMUM ELEVATIONS | CLIMATE-CHANGE | WATER-BALANCE | YOSEMITE-NATIONAL-PARK | SEVERE DROUGHT | historical ecology | global change | SIERRA-NEVADA | MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS | DRIVE DOWNHILL SHIFTS | Forests | Biomass | California | History, 21st Century | Biodiversity | History, 20th Century | Observations | Forest dynamics | Biological Sciences
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9. Full Text A fire-driven shift from forest to non-forest: evidence for alternative stable states?
by Fletcher, Michael-Shawn and Wood, Sam W and Haberle, Simon G
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 09/2014, Volume 95, Issue 9, pp. 2504 - 2513
We test the validity of applying the alternative stable state paradigm to account for the landscape-scale forest/non-forest mosaic that prevails in temperate... 
forest | paleoecology | regime shift | Tasmania | fire | non-forest | alternative stable states | Australia | hysteresis | Moorlands | Taxa | Marine ecology | Vegetation | Temperate rain forests | Forest ecology | Pollen | Wetland ecology | Forest hydrology | Forest fires | Alternative stable states | Fire | Forest | Regime shift | Non-forest | Paleoecology | Hysteresis | SOUTHWEST TASMANIA | MOORLAND | REGIMES | POLLEN-VEGETATION RELATIONSHIPS | ORGANIC SOILS | COMMUNITY | ECOLOGY | SCALE | IMPACTS | ECOSYSTEMS | Vegetation zones | Research | Fires
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