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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Main Authors: Chuixiang Yi, Nathan Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdf09
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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
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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
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topic resilience
resistance
recovery
extreme events
sustainability
stability
url https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdf09
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