Can Nature's Leading Indicators Presage Environmental Disaster?
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 17:28
in Earth & Climate
Economists use leading indicators -- the drivers of economic performance - to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of ecosystems.
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