Early Warning Signals of Social Transformation: A Case Study from the US Southwest.

Recent research in ecology suggests that generic indicators, referred to as early warning signals (EWS), may occur before significant transformations, both critical and non-critical, in complex systems. Up to this point, research on EWS has largely focused on simple models and controlled experiments...

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Main Authors: Katherine A Spielmann, Matthew A Peeples, Donna M Glowacki, Andrew Dugmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5051805?pdf=render