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What are catastrophic shifts?

Arid ecosystems respond discontinuously to continuously increasing pressure. This is due to positive feed-back mechanisms that amplify the drivers of vegetation loss after a critical threshold is reached.

Pressures

The pressures in the ecosystems investigated by CASCADE are climate change and drought events, fire frequency and livestock grazing.

Responses

CASCADE investigates how the vegetation cover and composition of plant functional groups and species, as well as the state of the soils depend on the level pressure.

Predicting Transitions

Implications on Management

Authorship

The text provided on these websites is collaborative work within the CASCADE WP6 Team. Responsible lead author is Florian D. Schneider.

License

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CASCADE WP 6 Documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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  1. About
    1. the CASCADE project
    2. Catastrophic regime shifts
    3. Objectives of WP6
    4. Approaches
    5. Team
  2. Events
    1. WP6 meeting 2014
    2. Plenary 2015
  3. Projects
    1. Spatially-explicit pressure
    2. Livestock resilience
    3. Grazing protection
    4. Plant functional types
    5. Fire succession
    6. fire management
    7. hydro-ecol. feedbacks
  4. Link to data
  5. Model types
    1. Cellular automata
    2. Ordinary differential equations
  6. Software tools
    1. Modeling in R
    2. Modeling in NetLogo
  7. Code development
    1. Documentation
    2. Version control
    3. Open Source
    4. GitHub

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