Climate change is identified as a major threat to wetlands. Altered hydrology and rising
temperature can change the biogeochemistry and function of a wetland to the degree that …

Selecting among competing statistical models is a core challenge in science. However, the
many possible approaches and techniques for model selection, and the conflicting …

Abstract As the United Nations develops a post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the
Convention on Biological Diversity, attention is focusing on how new goals and targets for …

Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing
management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy …

Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

This book aims to provide an introduction to dynamical systems with multiple time scales. As
in any overview book, several topics are covered only quite briefly. My aim was to focus on …

Research in both ecology and AI strives for predictive understanding of complex systems,
where nonlinearities arise from multidimensional interactions and feedbacks across multiple …

Many dynamical systems, including lakes, organisms, ocean circulation patterns, or financial
markets, are now thought to have tip** points where critical transitions to a contrasting …

Ecosystem services are defined as the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems.
Employing the ecosystem service concept is intended to support the development of policies …

To enhance global water use assessment, the WaterGAP3 model was improved for back-
calculating domestic, manufacturing and thermoelectric water uses until 1950 for 177 …