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This study was supported by National Science Foundation awards to LTER programs at the Jornada Basin at New Mexico State University (DEB 0618210) and the Konza Prairie at Kansas State University (DEB 0218210). We thank Barbara Nolen for assistance in figure preparation. We thank Greg Okin, Tony Parsons, John Wainwright, Al Rango, Ed Fredrickson, Laurie Abbott, Osvaldo Sala, Steve Archer, Rhonda Skaggs, and Heather Throop for helpful discussions. We thank the reviewers and editors for helpful comments on the manuscript.

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  3. Graduate Degree Program in Ecology and Department of Biology, Fort Collins, Colorado State University, CO 80524, USA

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  4. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0003, USA

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Peters, D.P., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Knapp, A.K., Herrick, J.E., Monger, H.C., Havstad, K.M. (2009). Approaches to Predicting Broad-Scale Regime Shifts Using Changing Pattern-Process Relationships Across Scales. In: Miao, S., Carstenn, S., Nungesser, M. (eds) Real World Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77942-3_3

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