Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

By A. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Jordi Bascompte, Eric L Berlow, James H. Brown, Mikael Fortelius, Wayne M. Getz, J. Harte, Alan Hastings, Pablo A. Marquet and 12 more. Nature, 2012

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