Ecological thresholds: a survey

By R. Muradian. 2001

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification. (2009, unknown): “In this review we contend that terms like regime shift [10,14], abrupt change [15], break- or change-point [16], STRUCTURAL CHANGE [17], ecological threshold [18], tipping point [19], and observational inhomogeneity [20], basically address the same problem and that methods developed for their analys”
Habitat thresholds for focal species at multiple scales and forest biodiversity conservation - dead wood as an example (2003, background): “The appearing knowledge about ecological thresholds (Muradian 2001) suggests that strong, or at least intermediate sustainability should be the goal.”
The Use of Reference Values in Indicator-Based Methods for the Environmental Assessment of Agricultural Systems (2011, background): “First the value of a science-based reference value obviously depends on the ―scientific‖ source used, and given our imperfect understanding and the lack of consensus among scientists regarding the functioning of ecosystems this inevitably will introduce variability [43].”
Targets for maintenance of dead wood for biodiversity conservation based on extinction thresholds (2006, background): “Ecological thresholds are important concepts in the conservation and management of natural resources ( Muradian, 2001; Huggett, 2005).”
Algae–P relationships, thresholds, and frequency distributions guide nutrient criterion development (2008, background): “Change-points in stressor–response relationships provided important benchmarks along the TP gradient that justified special attention (as suggested by Muradian 2001 and as observed in our discussions with stakeholders).”
Elementary results on solutions to the bellman equation of dynamic programming: existence, uniqueness, and convergence (2014, background): “For example, threshold effects are associated with discontinuous technologies (Azariadiz and Drazen, 1990); moreoever, discontinuities are a common feature of ecological phenomena (Muradian, 2001; Nævdal, 2003).”
The BIOKLIM Project: Biodiversity Research between Climate Change and Wilding in a temperate montane forest - The conceptual framework (2009, background): “Climate sensitive zones are climate-induced ecological thresholds (muradin 2001) represented by defined altitudinal zones.”
Thresholds in Ecological and Social–Ecological Systems: a Developing Database (2004, background): “Many others have followed and recent reviews (Beisner et al. 2003, Scheffer and Carpenter 2003, Scheffer et al. 2001, Muradian 2001) are evidence that it remains an active and advancing area of research.”
The Value of Biodiversity (2013, background): “…(in the form of a greater number of species) enhances stability for communitylevel properties, though these results do not necessarily extend to the population level, where diversity can enhance, erode, or have little impact on stability (Tilman et al., 1996; Mccann, 2000; Muradian, 2001).”
Habitat heterogeneity and mammalian predator–prey interactions (2012, background): “…species (e.g. coyote Canis latrans and wolf Canis lupus) favour community stability, whereas differences in sensitivity among functionally different species (e.g. ungulate prey vs. large carnivores) make communities more vulnerable to change (Chapin et al. 1997, Muradian 2001, Hooper et al. 2005).”
Dead wood threshold values for the three-toed woodpecker presence in boreal and sub-alpine forest (2004, background): “Consequently, ecological thresholds are a key feature that should be taken into consideration (Simberloff, 1995; With and Crist, 1995; Muradian, 2001) in the context of forest biodiversity maintenance, both by nature conservation per se, and by sustainable forest management and forest certification…”
Comparing Effects of Nutrients on Algal Biomass in Streams in Two Regions with Different Disturbance Regimes and with Applications for Developing Nutrient Criteria (2006, methodology): “based on models and can be helpful in establishing criteria for protecting valued ecological attributes (Stevenson, 1997a; Muradian, 2001; Stevenson et al., in press).”
The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns (2006, background): “…that may, for example, assume polytonic, sigmoidal or asymptotic relationships; or those that include thresholds marking qualitatively different relationships between dependent and independent variables; Lomolino & Weiser, 2001; Muradian, 2001; Fahrig, 2002; Toms & Lesperance, 2003; Luck, 2005).”
Development and use of state-and-transition models for rangelands. (2003, background): “Thus, it is doubtful that indicator values for specific transitions will be precise (Hobbs and Morton 1999, Muradian 2001).”