Publications

Ecological thresholds: a survey. Is It Time to Bury the Ecosystem Concept? (With Full Military Honors of Course!). The Effect of Aquatic Vegetation on Turbidity; How Important Are the Filter Feeders? Multiplicity of Stable States in Fresh-Water Systems. A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates. Dynamics of Climate and Ecosystem Coupling: Abrupt Changes and Multiple Equilibria. The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period in the Sargasso Sea. Complexity of Holocene Climate as Reconstructed From a Greenland Ice Core. Impact of Drought on Desert Shrubs: Effects of Seasonality and Degree of Resource Island Development. Distribution and Dynamics of Submerged Vegetation in a Chain of Shallow Eutrophic Lakes. Ecosystem Dynamics and the Sahel Drought. Role of Vegetation Dynamics in Enhancing the Low-Frequency Variability of the Sahel Rainfall. The Response to Deforestation and Desertification in a Model of West African Monsoons. The Role of Vegetation in the Dynamics of West African Monsoons. Regime shifts in the Sahara and Sahel: Interactions between ecological and climatic systems in Northern Africa. Grazing Effects on Patchy Dryland Vegetation in Northern Patagonia. Habitat Fragmentation and Extinction Thresholds in Spatially Explicit Models. Dutch Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus Schoenobaenus and West- African Rainfall: Empirical Data and Simulation Modelling Show Low Population Resilience in Fragmented Marshlands. Understanding the Role of Sink Patches in Source-Sink Metapopulations: Reed Warbler in an Agricultural Landscape. Two General Metapopulation Models and the Core-Satellite Species Hypothesis. Extinction Debt at Extinction Threshold. Multiple Equilibria in Metapopulation Dynamics. Extinction Thresholds in Demographic-Models of Territorial Populations. The Structural Connectivity Threshold: an Hypothesis in Conservation Biology at the Landscape Scale. Metapopulation Models for Extinction Threshold in Spatially Correlated Landscapes. Persistence of 2 Species of Gecko (Oedura-Reticulata and Gehyra-Variegata) in Remnant Habitat. Extinction and Spatial Structure in Simulation Models. Demographic Stochasticity Does Not Predict Persistence of Gecko Populations. Critical Thresholds in Species Responses to Landscape Structure. Dispersal Success on Fractal Landscapes: a Consequence of Lacunarity Thresholds. Extinction Thresholds for Species in Fractal Landscapes. Threshold Effects of Landscape Structure on Biological Control in Agroecosystems. Exploitation Trajectory of a Declining Fauna: a Century of Freshwater Mussel Fisheries in North America. The Potential of Marine Reserves for the Management of Northern Cod in Newfoundland. Fish and Nutrients Interplay Determines Algal Biomass - a Minimal Model. Relationships Between Fisheries and the Integrity of River Systems. Lobster and conch fisheries of Belize: a history of sequential exploitation. Seasonal Changes of Mechanisms Maintaining Clear Water in a Shallow Lake With Abundant Chara Vegetation. Long-Term Pattern of Alternative Stable States in 2 Shallow Eutrophic Lakes. Long-Term and Short-Term Dynamics of Submerged Macrophytes in 2 Shallow Eutrophic Lakes. Decline of Charophytes During Eutrophication - Comparison With Angiosperms. The Sensitivity of a Tanzanian Crater Lake to Catastrophic Tephra Input and Four Millennia of Climate Change. Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management. Coping With Collapse: Ecological and Social Dynamics in Ecosystem Management. Multiple States in River and Lake Ecosystems. Seasonality and Chaos in a Plankton Fish Model. The Costs of Eutrophication From Salmon Farming - Implications for Policy. Differences in the ecology of wet-dug and dry-dug gravel pit lakes. Iron-Phosphorus Ratio in Surface Sediment as an Indicator of Phosphate Release From Aerobic Sediments in Shallow Lakes. Mechanisms for marine regime shifts: Can we use lakes as microcosms for oceans? Lake restoration in terms of ecological resilience: a numerical study of biomanipulations under bistable conditions. Spatial complexity, resilience and policy diversity: fishing on lake-rich landscapes. The ongoing experiment: Restoration of Lake Mendota and its watershed. Regime Shifts in Lake Ecosystems: Pattern and Variation Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef. A Fuzzy Logic Model to Predict Coral Reef Development Under Nutrient and Sediment Stress. Ecological Goods and Services of Coral Reef Ecosystems. Spatial Resilience of Coral Reefs. Coral Reef Disturbance and Resilience in a Human-Dominated Environment. Corals and Phase Shifts. Global and Local Threats to Coral Reef Functioning and Existence: Review and Predictions. Regional-scale assembly rules and biodiversity of coral reefs. Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Recruitment failure, life histories, and long-term decline of Caribbean corals. Causes of coral reef degradation. Are U.S. coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime? Tracing value chains to understand effects of trade on coral reef fish in Zanzibar, Tanzania Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs Spatial variance in abundance and occupancy of corals across broad geographic scales Designing, implementing and managing marine protected areas: emerging trends and opportunities for coral reef nations. Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef: A globally significant demonstration of the benefits of networks of marine reserves Thinking and managing outside the box: coalescing connectivity networks to build region-wide resilience in coral reef ecosystems Doom and boom on a resilient reef: climate change, algal overgrowth and coral recovery Mobility, Expansion and Management of a Multi-Species Scuba Diving Fishery in East Africa Overview of Hypoxia Around the World. Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska - Generality and Variation in a Community Ecological Paradigm. Sea otters: Their role in structuring nearshore communities. A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation With Impacts on Salmon Production. The Disturbance of Forest Ecosystems - the Ecological Basis for Conservative Management. On Multiple Solutions of the Atmosphere-Vegetation System in Present-Day Climate. Hurricane Damage to a Hawaiian Forest: Nutrient Supply Rate Affects Resistance and Resilience. Positive-Feedback Switches in Plant-Communities. Forest Encounters: Synergy among agents of forest change in southern Cameroon. Changing gender relations and forest utilisation: A case study from Komassi, Cameroon. Disturbance, Change, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Over-time Analysis of Five Communities in Southern Indiana Desertification in Australia: an Eye to Grass Roots and Landscapes. Biodiversity, Resilience and the Control of Ecological-Economic Systems: the Case of Fire-Driven Rangelands. The Sahel of Africa: Ecology of a Disaster. Spatial Heterogeneity and Irreversible Vegetation Change in Semiarid Grazing Systems. Catastrophic vegetation shifts and soil degradation in terrestrial grazing systems. Rangeland Ecology - Understanding and Managing Change. Resilience of an Australian Savanna Grassland to Selective and Non-Selective Perturbations. Stability of semiarid svanna grazing systems. Diversity and stability in ecosystem conservation. Stability Properties Of Semiarid Savannas In Southern African Game Reserves. An exploratory framework for the empirical measurement of resilience From metaphor to measurement: resilience of what to what? Surrogates for resilience of social-ecological systems A Systems Model Approach to Determining Resilience Surrogates for Case Studies Grazing management, resilience and the dynamics of a fire driven rangeland system Resilience of NSW rangelands: a framework for analysing a complex adaptive ecosystem Local Variability but Landscape Stability in Coral Reef Communities Following Repeated Hurricane Impacts. Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management. Grazing Management, Resilience, and the Dynamics of a Fire- Driven Rangeland System. Integrating Salmon, Trees and People: Watershed Management: Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change. On the Evidence Needed to Judge Ecological Stability or Persistence. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations. Stability of Forest Ecosystems in the Humid Tropics. A Long-Term Perspective on the Chrysochromulina Bloom on the Norwegian Skagerrak Coast 1988: a Catastrophe or an Innocent Incident? Functional Ecology of Soil Organisms in Tundra Ecosystems: Towards the Future. Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems. Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management. What Can Be Learned From the Collapse of a Renewable Resource - Atlantic Cod, Gadus-Morhua, of Newfoundland and Labrador. Microcosmic Histories: Island Perspectives on "Global" Change. Biotic Feedback Extends the Life Span of the Biosphere. Life After Death in Lake Erie: Nutrient Controls Drive Fish Species Richness, Rehabilitation. Sustainability, stability, and resilience. The Aspects and the Role of Diversity in Socioeconomic Systems: an Evolutionary Perspective. Disturbance Regimes of Stream and Riparian Systems - a Disturbance-Cascade Perspective. Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale. Implications of the Effects of Trawling on Sessile Megazoobenthos on a Tropical Shelf in Northeastern Australia. The Impact of Pelagic Fish Behavior on Fisheries. Multispecies Cropping Systems in India - Predictions of Their Productivity, Stability, Resilience and Ecological Sustainability. Greenhouse Warming and the Eurasian Biota - Are There Any Lessons From the Past. Indigenous knowledge and resource management systems in the Canadian subarctic Ostrom, E. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. The Collapse of Complex Societies. New Studies in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press. Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability Resilience and stability of ecological systems The resilience of terrestrial ecosystems: local surprise and global change Resilience, adaptive capacity, and the "Lock-in Trap" of the Western Australian agricultural region. Ecological Resilience and Social Conflict - Institutions and Strategic Adaptation in Swedish Water Management Regime shifts and ecosystem service generation in Swedish coastal soft bottom habitats: when resilience is undesirable. Social and ecological resilience: are they related? Population, adaptation and resilience. Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters. Governing natural resources: institutional adaptation and resilience. Sprawl and the resilience of humans and nature: an introduction to the special feature. The use of discontinuities and functional groups to assess relative resilience in complex systems. Loss of resilience, crisis, and institutional change: Lessons from an intensive agricultural system in southeastern Australia. Can resilience be reconciled with globalization and the increasingly complex conditions of resource degradation in Asian coastal regions? An exploratory framework for the empirical measurement of resilience. Regime shifts, resilience and biodiversity in ecosystem management. Firm size diversity, functional richness and resilience. Trust-building, knowledge generation and organizational innovations: the role of a bridging organization for adaptive co-management of a wetland landscape around Kristianstad, Sweden New paradigms for supporting resilience of marine ecosystems. A network perspective on the resilience of social-ecological systems. Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems Interpreting and correcting cross-scale mismatches in resilience analysis: a procedure and examples from Australia's rangelands. A long-term perspective on resilience in socio-natural systems. Staying connected in a turbulent world. Kelp forest ecosystem: biodiversity, stability, resilience and their future. Resilience & Biosphere Reserves. Does adaptive management of natural resources enhance resilience to climate change? Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems. Exploring resilience in social-ecological systems through comparative studies and theory development: Introduction to the special issue. Contrasting spatial patterns of taxonomic and functional richness offer insights into potential loss of ecosystem services Managing water in agriculture for food production and other ecosystem services Managing for resilience Learning and Adapting: Central Features of Resilience Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability Why resilience? Why now? Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts? Adaptation and resilience: Responding to a changing climate Incentives, social-ecological feedbacks and European fisheries Should enhanced resilience be an objective of natural resource research for developing countries? Riding the rangelands piggyback: a resilience approach to conservation management A test of the cross-scale resilience model: functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems Resilience and the behaviour of large-scale systems Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change Aligning key concepts for global change policy: Robustness, resilience, and sustainability Social Ecological Resilience and Human Security Toward a Sustainable and Resilient Future Agency, Capacity and Resilience to Environmental Change: Lessons from Human Development Policy Discourses of Resilience Complex systems: Spatial signatures of resilience Large termitaria act as refugia for tall trees, deadwood and cavity-using birds in a miombo woodland Spatial Resilience: integrating landscape ecology, resilience, and sustainability Resilience, experimentation, and scale mismatches in social-ecological landscapes Responses of an African wading bird community to resource pulses are related to foraging guild and food web position Landscape Level Management of Parks, Refuges, and Preserves for Ecosystem Resilience General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events Conclusions: Adapting Institutions and Resilience Calcification, storm damage and population resilience of tabular corals under climate change Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts Resilience and adaptation in the governance of social-ecological systems Vulnerability and Resilience of Modern Societies to Environmental Change Long-term Vulnerability and Resilience: Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana, SW Spain Drivers, ""slow"" variables, ""fast"" variables, shocks, and resilience Global environmental change, resilience, and sustainable outcomes Contributing to resilience A commentary on “Resilience and water governance: adaptive governance in the Columbia River Basin” Perspectives on resilience to disasters across sectors and cultures How to apply resilience thinking - In Australia and beyond Resilience and law, an introduction Integrating resilience and law Resilience Resilience Resilience Practice: Building capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function Social-Ecological Resilience and Law Vegetation and Soil Feedbacks on the Response of the African Monsoon to Orbital Forcing in the Early to Middle Holocene. Alternate Stable States and Threshold Effects in Semi-Arid Grazing Systems. Degredation and Recovery in Socio-Ecological Systems. Shrub clumps of the Chilean matorral vegetation: structure and possible maintenance mechanisms. El Nino as a window of opportunity for the restoration of degraded arid ecosystems. El Nino Effects on the Dynamics of Terrestrial Ecosystems. South Africa's Arid and Semiarid Rangelands: Why Are They Changing and Can They Be Restored? Desertification in Russia: Problems and Solutions (an Example in the Republic of Kalmykia-Khalmg Tangch). Stress, Disturbance and Change in Rangeland Ecosystems. Scientific concepts for an integrated analysis of desertification Modelling the Recovery of an Annual Savanna Grass Following a Fire-Induced Crash. Range Condition Assessment and the Concept of Thresholds - a Viewpoint. Pastoralists' Responses to Variation of Rangeland Resource in time and space