Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events.

By D. Peters, Roger A. Pielke Sr., B. Bestelmeyer, C. Allen, S. Munson-McGee, K. Havstad. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “Rapid, non-linear changes in land resource uses are driven by positive feedbacks, where initial interventions or disturbances precipitate a cascade of further changes (Peters et al., 2004; Ramankutty and Coomes, 2016).”
Ecosystem management based on natural disturbances: hierarchical context and non-equilibrium paradigm (2011, background): “Recently several studies have further emphasized that perspectives of cross-scale interactions, which refer to processes at one spatial or temporal scale interacting with processes at another scale, are increasingly important in considering ecosystem dynamics (Peters et al. 2004; Falk et al. 2007).”
Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “Spatial nonlinearities and emergent structures challenge our ability to understand and predict system behaviour at one scale based on information obtained at fi ner or broader scales (Peters et al, 2004).”
Interacting regime shifts in ecosystems: implication for early warnings (2010, background): “2004) or fire (Peters et al. 2004); biogeochemical feedbacks (Carpenter 2003); and complex 73 interactions in food webs (Scheffer 1997, Jeppesen et al. 1998, Schmitz et al. 2006, Persson et al. 74 2007).”
Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice (2008, background): “For example, some ecosystems may respond in a smooth continuous way to altered external environmental conditions, while others can be quite inert, reacting abruptly when conditions approach a critical level where processes, and the state they influence, start to accelerate or decelerate discontinuou”
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory (2008, background): “This results in developments over time, characterized by periods of incremental change followed by fast and often irreversible change and “surprises” with immense consequences for economies, vital ecosystems, and human welfare (Moench and Dixit 2004; Peters et al. 2004; Schneider and Root 1995).”
Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions (2013, background): “…a broad range of complex systems, such as financial markets, human societies, and the climate, seems to exhibit abrupt (e.g. financial crashes, revolutions and hurricane) rather than gradual behavior in face of gradual external changes (Sornette 2002, 2003, Diamond 2004, Peters and Pielke 2004).”
Linear and non-linear impacts of a non-native plant invasion on soil microbial community structure and function (2011, background): “Thresholds, for example, are a common and important component of plant community dynamics (Peters et al. 2004) as well as microbial community processes (Brenner et al. 2007).”
Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis (2011, background): “Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 709–722”
What causes large fires in Southern France (2013, unknown): “In particular, weather is considered to have a significant influence on the incidence of large fires (Davis and Michaelsen, 1995; Gill and Moore, 1998; Moritz, 2003; Keeley, 2004; Peters et al., 2004).”
Antibiotic resistance plasmids in wastewater treatment plants and their possible dissemination into the environment (2010, background): “Stress is usually defined as an external factor that exerts an alteration in plant homeostasis initiating a set of biochemical or physiological responses that define a particular state of the organism different to that observed under a range of optimal conditions (Benavides-Mendoza, 2002; Peters et ”