Alternative stable states in ecology

By B. Beisner, Daniel T. Haydon, K. Cuddington. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru (2008, background): “Forests will remain, but we predict in alternative states that simply do not include or support large primates or the trees that depend on them (see Beisner et al., 2003).”
Coral Reef Algae (2011, background): “7b), or if these shifts represent alternative stable states (Scheffer et al. 2001; Beisner et al. 2003; Didham et al. 2005).”
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology (2020, methodology): “Because it is not easily quantified (Pimm et al., 2019; Van Nes & Scheffer, 2007), resilience (sensu Holling) has been mainly employed as a theoretical construct, based on the ‘ball in a cup’ metaphor to visualize properties of systems with different stability domains (Beisner et al., 2003).”
Sea urchin barrens as alternative stable states of collapsed kelp ecosystems (2014, neutral): “Considerable attention has been directed towards establishing criteria for defining an alternative stable state (Connell & Sousa 1983, Beisner et al. 2003, Petraitis & Dudgeon 2004).”
Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems (2018, background): “This is why it can be difficult to change a disease-related microbiome type into a healthy microbiome: microbiomes tend to be both resistant and resilient, returning to similar community structure after external disturbance or inputs of new species 26,30,41 .”
Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review (2005, background): “ASS are still often perceived as contrasting equilibrium values where a system exhibits fix-point stability in each of its states (Beisner et al. 2003).”
Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the Face of Rapid Environmental Change (2008, background): “based on a state and transition approach and the recognition of potential thresholds (6, 7, 49) (Figure 1) are increasingly used to understand non-linear and non-equilibrium ecosystem dynamics ((46, 50-54).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “[56] associated resilience with the features of the basin that act to retain the states of species (the location of the ball).”
Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is? (2014, background): “which in turn will affect both ecological and engineering resilience (Beisner et al., 2003).”
Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management (2004, background): “The theoretical basis for regime shifts has been described by Beisner et al. (2003), Carpenter (2003), Ludwig et al. (1997), Scheffer & Carpenter (2003), and Scheffer et al. (2001).”
Ecological Forestry in the Southeast: Understanding the Ecology of Fuels (2009, background): “These changes can be rapid and difficult to reverse, resulting in an alternative ecological stable state (Beisner et al. 2003).”
Ecosystem structure, function, and restoration success: Are they related? (2006, background): “However, changes in structure and function in degrading ecosystems may not be identical as changes occuring when the pressure is released, hysteresis being common in community and landscape dynamics (Beisner et al. 2003; Higgins, Mastrandrea, & Schneider 2002).”