Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

• Egbert H. van Nes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: egbert.vannes@wur.nl

  Affiliation Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Environmental Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-104X

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• Arie Staal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Environmental Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Stijn Hantson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

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• Milena Holmgren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Salvador Pueyo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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• Rafael E. Bernardi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Environmental Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centro Universitario Regional Este (CURE), Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay

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• Bernardo M. Flores,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Environmental Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Ecology Department, Center for Biosciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, RN, Natal, Brazil

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• Chi Xu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Marten Scheffer

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Environmental Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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