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Spatial signatures of resilience

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Predicting when the dynamics of a complex system will undergo a sudden transition is difficult. New experiments show that the spatial distribution of organisms can indicate when such tipping points are near. See Letter p.355

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Figure 1: Paths to recovery.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion were published online on 10 April 2013.

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  1. Stephen R. Carpenter is at the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.,

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Carpenter, S. Spatial signatures of resilience. Nature 496, 308–309 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12092

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