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Alternative Stable States

Alternative Stable States is a theoretical construct in ecosystem resilience that refers to the capacity of an ecosystem to exist in one of multiple stable configurations under the same external environmental conditions, where each state is maintained by distinct feedback mechanisms and a significant perturbation is required to shift between them.

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Alternative Stable State

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A network theory of mental disorders

Denny Borsboom · World Psychiatry · 2017 · 3.3K citations · Full text

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Ecological Resilience—In Theory and Application

Lance Gunderson · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 2000 · 2.7K citations

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Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance

Steeve D. Côté, Thomas P. Rooney, Jean‐Pierre Tremblay et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2004 · 2.1K citations

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Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

Tadashi Fukami · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2015 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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THE EVOLUTION OF SELF‐FERTILIZATION AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN PLANTS. I. GENETIC MODELS

Russell Lande, Douglas W. Schemske · Evolution · 1985 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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    Marten Scheffer

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    23 publications · 5.9K citations

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  2. EH
    Egbert H. van Nes

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    19 publications · 4.9K citations

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  3. AM
    André M. de Roos

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    10 publications · 797 citations

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  4. WM
    Wolf M. Mooij

    Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands

    9 publications · 612 citations

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  5. LP
    Lennart Persson

    Umeå University, Sweden

    8 publications · 761 citations

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Institutions

559

  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    30 h-index

    98 publications

    17.1K citations

  2. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    18 h-index

    34 publications

    7.5K citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    16 h-index

    30 publications

    5K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    15 h-index

    25 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. Netherlands Institute of Ecology

    Wageningen, Netherlands

    14 h-index

    48 publications

    3.7K citations

  6. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    13 h-index

    19 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    12 h-index

    24 publications

    6K citations

  8. Umeå University

    Umeå, Sweden

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    2.6K citations

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  1. Ecology

    33 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. The American Naturalist

    AN · 23 publications · 3.1K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 16 publications · 2.2K citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Oikos

    18 publications · 1.8K citations

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