Resilience 2011 --  Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability:  Navigating the Complexities of Global Change -- Second International Science and Policy Conference -- March 11-16, 2011

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Panel:

• 1. Panel Introduction - Vasilis Dakos, Reinette Biggs
• 2. Generic Early Warning indicators of regime-shifts – theory and application across ecosystems, climate, and financial systems - Marten Scheffer
• 3. The limit to prediction: what do early-warning signals not tell us? - Vasilis Dakos
• 4. Probability estimation of thresholds and regime shifts using data mining and Bayesian decision networks - Ted Lefroy
• 5. Can webcrawlers revolutionize ecological monitoring? - Victor Galaz

[1. Panel Introduction - Vasilis Dakos, Reinette Biggs]

Have Regime Shifts Database at http://www.regimeshifts.org/ , but these aren't in advance

[2. Generic Early Warning indicators of regime-shifts – theory and application across ecosystems, climate, and financial systems - Marten Scheffer]

Nature 2009:  Early-warning signals for critical transitions at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7260/abs/nature08227.html and http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08227

Flat basins

Recovery time from perturbation is an early indicator

Spatial patterns may warn earlier: Dakos et al. Theoretical Ecology, 2010 at

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-009-0060-6 .

Sonia Kofi says that as approach collapse, get a power law curve

[3] The limit to prediction: what do early-warning signals not tell us? - Vasilis Dakos]

Could have bistable or not bistable systems

Could have continuous transition with or without tipping point

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