Threshold models in restoration and conservation: a developing framework.

By K. Suding, Richard J. Hobbs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species (2013, background): “Systems subject to strong interactions among their component species are considered to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of disturbance (Suding & Hobbs, 2009).”
Biological soil crusts greatly contribute to small-scale soil heterogeneity along a grazing gradient (2013, background): “These interactive relations are currently discussed also for vascular plants (Suding and Hobbs, 2009) in a functional group context.”
Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is? (2014, methodology): “The former situation can signal reversible change whereas the latter may indicate irreversible change (i.e., hysteresis; Suding and Hobbs, 2009).”
Phenotypic plasticity promotes persistence following severe events: physiological and morphological responses of seagrass to flooding (2014, background): “…and marine reserves are the focus for the majority of conservation strategies, understanding the capacity of ecosystems to absorb and adapt to severe events and retain necessary structures, functions and services has more recently become a key objective of conservation (Suding & Hobbs 2009).”
Challenges in framing the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: the TEEB initiative (2010, background): “The concept of regime shifts and non-linear ecosystem change has important consequences for ecosystem management and conservation [3 ,43 ], especially when our ability to control global-scale environmental change is limited and reactive.”
Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems (2012, background): “Restoration efforts during the recovery process may lead ecosystems to reference states or redirect them towards alternative states [14–16] that could also be initiated by prerestoration disturbance itself.”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “Response diversity: The diversity of species that can perform similar ecosystem functions but have different capacities to respond to disturbance, imparting greater resilience to the entire system (Walker, 1995; Elmqvist et al., 2003; Suding & Hobbs, 2009).”
Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades (2015, background): “…abiotic and biotic environmental changes, which sometimes led to rapid ecosystem change with apparent hysteresis (e.g., Suding et al. 2004, Groffman et al. 2006, Suding and Hobbs 2009, Samhouri et al. 2010), necessitated a radical rethink of classical restoration goals (e.g., Harris et al. 2006).”
Integrating Conservation and Restoration in a Changing World (2015, background): “Although the identification, prediction, and treatment of thresholds has been an area of active research in ecology for some time (Lindenmayer and Luck 2005, Suding and Hobbs 2009), relatively few examples exist in which threshold concepts have been applied successfully.”
Using priority effects to manipulate competitive relationships in restoration (2017, background): “…the emerging conceptual frameworks for restoration is assembly theory, either narrowly or broadly defined (Temperton et al. 2004; Young et al. 2005; Suding & Hobbs 2009), but applying these concepts to increase restoration success has lagged, perhaps in part because their direct utility to…”
Novel ecosystems in the Anthropocene: a revision of the novel ecosystem concept for pragmatic applications (2014, background): “A common biotic threshold involves the introduction of nonnative invasive species (Suding and Hobbs 2009).”
Quaternary palaeoecology and nature conservation: a general review with examples from the neotropics (2011, background): “Some messages have been derived from these initiatives (Wallington et al., 2005; Suding and Hobbs, 2009) that are important for palaeoecology because the temporal dynamics of ecosystems have a number of implications for conservation management before considering the indirect human impacts to…”
Flexible habitat selection by cougars in response to anthropogenic development (2014, background): “Habitat selection thresholds are defined to be a sudden shift in selection corresponding to incremental changes in environmental variables (Suding and Hobbs, 2009).”
Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “If weeds or invasive exotic species have created soil legacies, then mere removal of these species will not be sufficient for successful restoration of pre-invasion plant communities (Suding, Gross & Houseman 2004; Suding & Hobbs 2009; Yelenik & Levine 2010).”