Environment & Ecology · Environmental Science
In environmental systems, 'Hysteresis' is best defined as a property where:
- 1A sudden non-linear transition happens between two stable states without any possibility of reversal
- 2A change occurs at a perfectly constant rate and maintains that trajectory indefinitely
- 3A change occurs at a steady rate followed by a sudden catastrophic linear collapse
- 4The state of a system depends on its history, such that the path of recovery differs from the path of degradation✓
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The state of a system depends on its history, such that the path of recovery differs from the path of degradation
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