1 Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands. marten.scheffer@wur.nl.
2 School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
3 Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
4 Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, SE104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
5 Estación Biológica de Doñana, EBD-CSIC, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
6 Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands.
7 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
8 Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute of Water and Wetland Research, 6525 AJ Nijmegen,Netherlands.
9 Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands.
10 Earth Innovation Institute, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
11 CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.