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  1. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

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Folke, C. How resilient are ecosystems to global environmental change?. Sustain Sci 5, 151–154 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-010-0109-x

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