supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2017YFA0604804);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA20020402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant NO.42171079)。
Critical transitions in ecosystems may imply risks of unexpected collapse under climate changes,especially vegetation often responds sensitively to climate change.The type of vegetation ecosystem states could present ...
The authors apologize to those colleagues whose relevant studies were not cited owing to space limitations.This work was supported in part by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB38040400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31930022,31671380 and 31771476);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2017SHZDZX01).
Background:Phase transition and phase separation as well as their tipping points are penetrating phenomena in biology and are intrinsic properties of biological systems ranging from basic molecule complexes to cells a...