Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience.
By Johannes Ingrisch, M. Bahn. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2018
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Resilience is a key concept in ecology and describes the capacity of an ecosystem to maintain its state and recover from disturbances. Numerous metrics have been applied to quantify resilience over a range of ecosystems. However, the way resilience is quantified affects the degree to which different trajectories of ecosystem recovery from disturbance are represented as 'resilient', precluding a comparison of disturbance responses across ecosystems and their properties and functions. To approach a broadly comparable assessment of resilience we suggest using a bivariate framework that jointly considers the disturbance impact and the recovery rate, both normalized to the undisturbed state of a system. We demonstrate the potential of the framework for attribution and integration across the various components underlying resilience.
Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Ecological resilience: what to measure and how (2022, background): “…al (2004), and it resembles the widely used notion of resistance defined as the ability of a system to persist despite a disturbance (Grimm et al 1997), although resistance is commonly quantified as the relative amount of system change given a specific size of disturbance (Ingrisch and Bahn 2018).”
- Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem (2020, methodology): “Following the framework of Ingrisch and Bahn (2018), we quantified resistance and resilience as a comparison between control and drought treatments in our experiment.”