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%X Global and regional climate models, such as those used in IPCC assessments, are the best tools available for climate predictions. Such models typically account for large-scale land-atmosphere feedbacks. However, these models omit local vegetation-environment feedbacks that may be crucial for critical transitions in ecosystems at larger scales. In this viewpoint paper, we propose the hypothesis that, if the balance of feedbacks is positive at all scales, local vegetation-environment feedbacks may trigger a cascade of amplifying effects, propagating from local to large scale, possibly leading to critical transitions in the large-scale climate. We call for linking local ecosystem feedbacks with large-scale landatmosphere feedbacks in global and regional climate models in order to improve climate predictions.
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%3 Nobre_Local ecosystem.pdf
%@secondarymark A2_INTERDISCIPLINAR B1_MATEMÁTICA_/_PROBABILIDADE_E_ESTATÍSTICA
%@issn 1476-945X
%@affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
%@affiliation The Land in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
%@affiliation VU University Amsterdam, Department of Systems Ecology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
%@affiliation The Land in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
%@affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
%@affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
%@affiliation Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117901, Russia
%@affiliation Earth System Science and Climate Change Group, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
%@affiliation Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
%@affiliation British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingly Rd., Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
%@affiliation Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, D-14412 Postdam, Germany
%@affiliation Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR, I-10133 Turin, Italy
%@affiliation Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
%@affiliation Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, CHN N11, Universita¨tsstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zu¨rich, Switzerland
%D 2011
%A Rietkerk, Max,
%A Brovkin, Victor,
%A Bodegom, Peter M. van,
%A Claussen, Martin,
%A Dekker, Stefan C.,
%A Dijkstra, Henk A.,
%A Goryachkin, Sergey V.,
%A Kabat, Pavel,
%A van Nes, Egbert H.,
%A Neutel, Anje-Margriet,
%A Nicholson, Sharon E.,
%A Nobre, Carlos,
%A Petoukhov, Vladimir,
%A Provenzale, Antonello,
%A Scheffer, Marten,
%A Seneviratne, Sonia I.,
%@area MET
%T Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate
%B Ecological Complexity
%@versiontype publisher
%V 8
%@dissemination WEBSCI; PORTALCAPES.
%@mirrorrepository sid.inpe.br/mtc-m19@80/2009/08.21.17.02.53
%K climate, complexity, ecosystems, feedbacks, hierarchy, scales.
%@secondarykey INPE--PRE/
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%@doi 10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.03.001