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Regime Shift
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Drivers

Key direct drivers

Vegetation conversion and habitat fragmentation

Harvest and resource consumption

External inputs (eg fertilizers)

Adoption of new technology

Infrastructure development

Species introduction or removal

Disease

Soil erosion & land degradation

Environmental shocks (eg floods)

Global climate change

Land use

Urban

Small-scale subsistence crop cultivation

Large-scale commercial crop cultivation

Intensive livestock production (eg feedlots)

Extensive livestock production (rangelands)

Timber production

Fisheries

Mining

Conservation

Tourism

Land use impacts are primarily off-site (e.g. dead zones)

Impacts

Ecosystem type

Marine & coastal

Freshwater lakes & rivers

Temperate & boreal forests

Tropical forests

Moist savannas & woodlands

Drylands & deserts

Mediterranean (Fynbos)

Grasslands

Tundra

Rock and Ice

Agro-ecosystems

Planetary

Key Ecosystem Processes

Soil formation

Primary production

Nutrient cycling

Water cycling

Biodiversity

Provisioning services

Freshwater

Food crops

Livestock

Fisheries

Wild animal and plant products

Timber

Woodfuel

Feed, fuel and fibre crops

Hydropower

Regulating services

Air quality regulation

Climate regulation

Water purification

Water regulation

Regulation of soil erosion

Pest & Disease regulation

Pollination

Natural hazard regulation

Cultural services

Recreation

Aesthetic values

Knowledge and educational values

Spiritual and religious

Human Well-being

Food and nutrition

Health (eg toxins, disease)

Livelihoods and economic activity

Security of housing & infrastructure

Cultural, aesthetic and recreational values

Cultural identity

Social conflict

No direct impact

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

No poverty

Zero hunger

Good health and well-being

Quality education

Gender equality

Clean water and sanitation

Affordable and clean energy

Decent work and economic growth

Industry, innovation & infrastructure

Reduced inequalities

Sustainable cities and communities

Responsible consumption and production

Climate action

Life below water

Life on land

Peace, justice and strong institutions

Partnerships for the goals

Key Attributes

Typical spatial scale

Local/landscape

National (country)

Sub-continental/regional

Global

Typical time scale

Weeks

Months

Years

Decades

Centuries

Unknown

Reversibility

Irreversible (on 100 year time scale)

Hysteretic

Readily reversible

Unknown

Evidence

Models

Paleo-observation

Contemporary observations

Experiments

Other

Confidence: Existence of RS

Speculative – Regime shift has been proposed, but little evidence as yet

Contested – Reasonable evidence both for and against the existence of RS

Well established – Wide agreement in the literature that the RS exists

Confidence: Mechanism underlying RS

Speculative – Mechanisms have been proposed, but little evidence as yet

Contested – Multiple proposed mechanisms, reasonable evidence both for and against different mechanisms

Well established – Wide agreement on the underlying mechanism

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Type of regime shift

Spatial scale of the case study

Local/landscape (e.g. lake, catchment, community)

Sub-continental/regional (e.g. southern Africa, Amazon basin)

Global

Ecosystem type

Marine & coastal

Freshwater lakes & rivers

Temperate & Boreal Forests

Tropical Forests

Moist savannas & woodlands

Drylands & deserts (below ~500mm rainfall/year)

Mediterranean (Fynbos)

Grasslands

Tundra

Rock and Ice

Agro-ecosystems

Planetary

Dominant land uses

Urban

Small-scale subsistence crop cultivation

Large-scale commercial crop cultivation

Intensive livestock production (eg feedlots, dairies)

Extensive livestock production (natural rangelands)

Timber production

Fisheries

Mining

Conservation

Tourism

Continent or Ocean

Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Australia & New Zealand

Europe

North America

South America

Arctic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Southern Ocean

Countries

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Drivers

Key direct drivers

Land use

Impacts

Ecosystem type

Key Ecosystem Processes

Biodiversity

Provisioning services

Regulating services

Cultural services

Human Well-being

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Key Attributes

Typical spatial scale

Typical time scale

Reversibility

Evidence

Confidence: Existence of RS

Confidence: Mechanism underlying RS

Advanced Case Study Search

Type of regime shift

Spatial scale of the case study

Ecosystem type

Dominant land uses

Continent or Ocean

Countries

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Large persistent changes in ecosystem services