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ECOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 3-5Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13629
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Equilibria; stationarity; stochasticity
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Ecological systems are not always in equilibrium, with the natural world mostly being stable but experiencing occasional periods of change. Moving away from a stable state does not mean we should completely abandon the concept of equilibrium when studying the dynamics of the natural world.
Ecological systems are no longer at equilibrium, but over much of the history of the Earth, the natural world has been in stationary states, that are punctuated by periods of transience. Just because we have knocked our planet away from a stable state, doesn't mean we have to abandon the concept of equilibrium when we strive to understand the dynamics of the natural world.
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