What Do You Mean, ‘Tipping Point’?

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• 作者：Egbert H. van Nes¹ ; ^{egbert.vannes@wur.nl" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Babak M.S. Arani¹ ; Arie Staal¹ ; Bregje van der Bolt¹ ; Bernardo M. Flores¹ ; Sebastian Bathiany¹ ; Marten Scheffer¹
• 关键词：critical transitions ; resilience ; critical slowing down ; basin of attraction ; alternative stable states
• 刊名：Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：31
• 期：12
• 页码：902-904
• 全文大小：451 K

文摘

Over the past 10 years the use of the term ‘tipping point’ in the scientific literature has exploded. It was originally used loosely as a metaphor for the phenomenon that, beyond a certain threshold, runaway change propels a system to a new state. Although several specific mathematical definitions have since been proposed, we argue that these are too narrow and that it is better to retain the original definition.