Fig. 1. A bifurcation diagram for the simple lake model using values q = 8, r = 1, m = 1, and b = 0.4 (left), b = 0.8 (middle), b = 2 (right) (where q is the exponent, r is the maximum recycling rate, m is the P-value at which recycling reaches half of the maximum value, and b is the proportion of P lost at each time step). The solid lines show the locus of the stable steady states and the dotted lines the unstable steady states in the two-dimensional space (L, P).

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