Regime Shifts and Ecosystem Service Generation in Swedish Coastal Soft Bottom Habitats: When Resilience is Undesirable

Ecosystems can undergo regime shifts where they suddenly change from one state into another.  This can have important implications for formulation of management strategies, if system characteristics develop that are undesirable from a human perspective, and that have a high resistance to restoration...

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Main Authors: Max Troell, Leif Pihl, Patrik Rönnbäck, Håkan Wennhage, Tore Söderqvist, Nils Kautsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2005-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art30/