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| S R CarpenterSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Early warnings of regime shifts: a whole-ecosystem experimentS R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Science 332:1079-82. 2011....
Leading indicators of trophic cascadesS R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Ecol Lett 11:128-38. 2008..Thus, the ecosystem can be poised for regime shift by the time the signal is discernible. Field tests are needed to evaluate these indicators...- Early warnings of unknown nonlinear shifts: a nonparametric approachS R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, 680 North Park Street, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Ecology 92:2196-201. 2011..EWS computed from drift estimates (such as autocorrelation coefficients or return rates) have low precision and should be used with caution. Nonetheless, in the current state of knowledge, it is premature to disregard any potential EWS... - Ecology for transformationStephen R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 21:309-15. 2006..As we discuss here, ecology should help formulate positive, plausible visions for relationships of society and ecosystems that can potentially sustain ecosystem services for long periods of time... 
Phosphorus control is critical to mitigating eutrophicationStephen R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11039-40. 2008- Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentStephen R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:1305-12. 2009.... - Eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems: bistability and soil phosphorusStephen R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, 680 North Park Street, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10002-5. 2005..Technologies for rapidly reducing phosphorus content of overenriched soils, or reducing erosion rates, are needed to improve water quality... - Trading carbon for food: global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural landPaul C West
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:19645-8. 2010..Particularly in the tropics, emphasis should be placed on increasing yields on existing croplands rather than clearing new lands. Our high-resolution approach can be used to determine the net effect of local land use decisions... - Panaceas and diversification of environmental policyWilliam A Brock
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:15206-11. 2007..This process helps induce the modesty needed to avoid panacea traps while supporting systematic effort to improve resource management in the public interest... - Stability and diversity of ecosystemsAnthony R Ives
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Science 317:58-62. 2007..This shifts attention away from diversity-stability relationships toward the multiple factors, including diversity, that dictate the stability of ecosystems... - Multiple states in river and lake ecosystemsC Lisa Dent
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357:635-45. 2002..Nonlinear behaviour in aquatic ecosystems may be more common than current theory indicates... - Dining on disease: how interactions between infection and environment affect predation riskPieter T J Johnson
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 1492, USA
Ecology 87:1973-80. 2006..P. laeve increases the conspicuousness and predation risk of Daphnia; as a result, infected Daphnia occur predominantly in environments with characteristics that conceal their elevated visibility... - Global consequences of land useJonathan A Foley
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Science 309:570-4. 2005..We face the challenge of managing trade-offs between immediate human needs and maintaining the capacity of the biosphere to provide goods and services in the long term... - Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needsStephen R Carpenter
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Science 314:257-8. 2006 - Turning back from the brink: detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert itReinette Biggs
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:826-31. 2009..Averting ecological regime shifts is also dependent on developing policy processes that enable society to respond more rapidly to information about impending regime shifts... - Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food websUlrich Brose
Department of Biology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Ecology 87:2411-7. 2006..If recent studies that relate body-size ratios to interaction strengths are general, our results suggest that mean consumer-resource interaction strengths may vary systematically across different habitat categories and consumer types... - Profile of Stephen R. CarpenterNick Zagorski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9999-10001. 2005 - Social-ecological resilience to coastal disastersW Neil Adger
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Science 309:1036-9. 2005..Disaster management requires multilevel governance systems that can enhance the capacity to cope with uncertainty and surprise by mobilizing diverse sources of resilience... - Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibiansPieter T J Johnson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Ramaley N122, Boulder, CO 80309 0334, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:15781-6. 2007..Given forecasted increases in global eutrophication, amphibian extinctions, and similarities between Ribeiroia and important human and wildlife pathogens, our results have broad epidemiological and ecological significance... - Differential support of lake food webs by three types of terrestrial organic carbonJonathan J Cole
Ecol Lett 9:558-68. 2006..The results show that impacts of cross-ecosystem subsidies depend on characteristics of the imported material, the route of entry into the food web, the types of consumers present, and the productivity of the recipient system... - Complexity of coupled human and natural systemsJianguo Liu
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Science 317:1513-6. 2007..They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, and surprises. Furthermore, past couplings have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities... - Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food websMichael L Pace
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York 12545, USA
Nature 427:240-3. 2004.... - Ecological community description using the food web, species abundance, and body sizeJoel E Cohen
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:1781-6. 2003..Moreover, knowing the food web gives new insight into the disputed form of the allometric relationship between body mass and abundance... - Coupled human and natural systemsJianguo Liu
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Ambio 36:639-49. 2007..Opportunities for truly integrating various disciplines are emerging to address fundamental questions about CHANS and meet society's unprecedented challenges... - Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem servicesWalter V Reid
Nature 443:749; author reply 750. 2006