Estimating Resilience Across Landscapes

By Garry D. Peterson. 2002

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Although ecological managers typically focus on managing local or regional landscapes, they often have little ability to control or predict many of the large-scale, long-term processes that drive changes within these landscapes. This lack of control has led some ecologists to argue that ecological management should aim to produce ecosystems that are resilient to change and surprise. Unfortunately, ecological resilience is difficult to measure or estimate in the landscapes people manage. In this paper, I extend system dynamics approaches to resilience and estimate resilience using complex landscape simulation models. I use this approach to evaluate cross-scale edge, a novel empirical method for estimating resilience based on landscape pattern. Cross-scale edge provides relatively robust estimates of resilience, suggesting that, with some further development, it could be used as a management tool to provide rough and rapid estimates of areas of resilience and vulnerability within a

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Adaptive Capacity and Traps (2008, background): “Many other papers use distance-to-threshold to investigate social–ecological systems (e.g., Kondolf et al. 2006, Martin 2004, Peterson 2002, Sandker et al. 2007, Walker and Meyers 2004).”
A Graph‐Theory Framework for Evaluating Landscape Connectivity and Conservation Planning (2008, background): “Important features in a habitat network include connectivity and resilience to disturbance (Peterson 2002; Opdam et al. 2003), both of which are affected by network topology.”
Critical natural capital revisited: Ecological resilience and sustainable development (2009, methodology): “Bellwood et al., 2003; Bengtsson et al., 2003; Nystrom, 2006), the concept of maintainedsystemidentity(Cummingetal.,2005),probabilistic resilience and percolation theory ( Peterson, 2002 )o r to approaches using the concept of alternative stable states and ecological thresholds (e.g.”
Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience (2006, background): “…Mill.) forests Sedia and Ehrenfeld 2003 Sandhill forests, Florida, USA Hardwood vs. longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) as a function of fire frequency Peterson 2002b Tropical rain forests Mesic, fire-inhibiting vs. xeric fire-susceptible forests mediated by opening of roads and…”
Expanding northward: influence of climate change, forest connectivity, and population processes on a threatened species' range shift (2011, methodology): “Percolation theory has been applied to problems of detecting ecotone transitions and forest connectivity (Milne et al., 1996; Peterson, 2002).”