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Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift

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posted on 2023-05-18, 18:09 authored by Spanbauer, TL, Allen, CR, Angeler, DG, Eason, T, Fritz, SC, Garmestani, AS, Kirsty NashKirsty Nash, Stone, JR
Regime shifts are generally defined as the point of ‘abrupt’ change in the state of a system. However, a seemingly abrupt transition can be the product of a system reorganization that has been ongoing much longer than is evident in statistical analysis of a single component of the system. Using both univariate and multivariate statistical methods, we tested a longterm high-resolution paleoecological dataset with a known change in species assemblage for a regime shift. Analysis of this dataset with Fisher Information and multivariate time series modeling showed that there was a 2000 year period of instability prior to the regime shift. This period of instability and the subsequent regime shift coincide with regional climate change, indicating that the system is undergoing extrinsic forcing. Paleoecological records offer a unique opportunity to test tools for the detection of thresholds and stable-states, and thus to examine the long-term stability of ecosystems over periods of multiple millennia.

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PLoS ONE

Volume

9

Issue

10

Article number

e108936

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e108936

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1-7

ISSN

1932-6203

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Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

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Public Library of Science

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright: © 2014 Spanbauer et al. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Fresh, ground and surface water biodiversity

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