Researchers snooping on complex signals emanating from a remote lake in the have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning of the impending collapse of the lake’s aquatic ecosystem, EurekAlert has reported.

The finding from a Wisconsin lake, reported today April 29 in the journal Science by a team of researchers led by Stephen Carpenter, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the first experimental evidence that radical change in an ecosystem can be detected in advance, possibly in time to prevent ecological catastrophe.

‘For a long time, ecologists thought these changes couldn’t be predicted. But we’ve now shown that they can be foreseen. The early warning is clear. It is a strong signal,