A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance
Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face of change such as resistance, recovery, sustainability, vulnerability, stability, adaptive capacity, regime shift, an...
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description | Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face of change such as resistance, recovery, sustainability, vulnerability, stability, adaptive capacity, regime shift, and tipping point. It is extremely challenging to formulate resilience thinking into practice. The current state-of-art approaches of assessing ecosystem resilience may be useful for policy makers and ecosystem resource managers to minimize climatological or natural disaster related impacts. Here, we review the methods of assessing resilience and classify and limit them to three cases: (a) forest resilience based mainly on remote sensing and tree-ring data; (b) soil microbial community resilience based on laboratory and field studies; and (c) hydrological resilience of terrestrial biomes based on the Budyko framework and climate data. |
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spelling | doaj.art-b8ed6b9e4a6048a6b598c68bcb4498a22023-08-09T14:55:41ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262021-01-0116505300810.1088/1748-9326/abdf09A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbanceChuixiang Yi0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8546-6157Nathan Jackson1School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York , Flushing, NY 11367, United States of America; Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York , New York, NY 10016, United States of AmericaSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York , Flushing, NY 11367, United States of AmericaResilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face of change such as resistance, recovery, sustainability, vulnerability, stability, adaptive capacity, regime shift, and tipping point. It is extremely challenging to formulate resilience thinking into practice. The current state-of-art approaches of assessing ecosystem resilience may be useful for policy makers and ecosystem resource managers to minimize climatological or natural disaster related impacts. Here, we review the methods of assessing resilience and classify and limit them to three cases: (a) forest resilience based mainly on remote sensing and tree-ring data; (b) soil microbial community resilience based on laboratory and field studies; and (c) hydrological resilience of terrestrial biomes based on the Budyko framework and climate data.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdf09resilienceresistancerecoveryextreme eventssustainabilitystability |
spellingShingle | Chuixiang Yi Nathan Jackson A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance Environmental Research Letters resilience resistance recovery extreme events sustainability stability |
title | A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
title_full | A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
title_fullStr | A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
title_full_unstemmed | A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
title_short | A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
title_sort | review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance |
topic | resilience resistance recovery extreme events sustainability stability |
url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdf09 |
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