Grim Reminder of Thresholds Crossed

On By mandersonIn biodiversity, chaos, Complex Adaptive Systems, disorder, Ecology, endangered species, nature, research, resilience, Science, stability, thresholds, uncertainty

By Philip Sclater (The Book of Antelopes) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
A grim reminder that we never know when invisible ecological thresholds may be crossed: more than half of an endangered antelope species in Central Asia died off within a month.

We are entering an era of increasing turbulence due to factors related to climate change, of which the saiga antelope is one casualty.

Check out this post for more on the concept of thresholds.

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