Workshop - Drivers of regime shifts in aquatic systems: case-specific or universal?

The study of regime shifts developed independently in the freshwater and marine realms; with studies of freshwater regime shifts having a resource-based focus while in marine systems, research concentrates on higher trophic levels. Do these distinct approaches reflect fundamental differences in the drivers of the abrupt changes or is it simply a reflection of a parallel development towards one unifiable body of theory?

The announcement poster can be downloaded here.

Information: Kristina.Raab@wur.nl, Reinier.HilleRisLambers@wur.nl, Andrea.Downing@wur.nl

Registration: email Andrea.Downing@wur.nl before September 7th, specifying whether you will present a poster or talk (and include any dietary requirements).

Oral presentations: If you want to present a talk, please also send an abstract of no more than 200 words (font size 12). Remember to include the title (font size 14), authors and affiliations (both font size 10), all in Times New Roman font.

Poster presentations: For posters, please send the only title, authors and affiliations in the same format as described above.

This workshop is aimed at bringing together both Dutch and international speakers from both sides of the salinity divide to discuss specificity or generality of the drivers underlying different regime shifts. During discussion time we will attempt to formulate the general principles agreed on by the regime shift community and identify where major points of contention remain.

Confirmed speakers: Grégory Beaugrand, Tobias van Kooten, Wolf Mooij, Henrik Österblom, Marten Scheffer.