Assessing resilience in long-term ecological data sets
Autor: | Mathias Küster, Martin Theuerkauf, Peter Haase, Reiner Kümmerlin, Claus-Georg Schimming, Marc C. Jochimsen, Stefan Stoll, Manuela Schult, Ingrid Kröncke, Gunnar Lischeid, Melanie Bergmann, Albrecht Gnauck, G. Millat, Henning Meesenburg, Dietmar Straile, Peter Kasprzak, Felix Müller, Hendrik Schubert, R. Dannowski, M. Schwabe, Tom Shatwell, Judit Padisák, Christoph Merz, Jörg Müller, Géza B. Selmeczy, Joachim W. Dippner, Thomas Soltwedel |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Ecological stability Research program 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Computer science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) Environmental resource management General Decision Sciences 15. Life on land 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Adaptability Term (time) 13. Climate action ddc:570 Selection (linguistics) Socio-ecological system Resilience (network) business Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
Zdroj: | Ecological Indicators. 65:10-43 |
ISSN: | 1470-160X |
Popis: | In this paper the concept of resilience is discussed on the base of 13 case studies from the German branch of the International Long-Term Ecological Research Program. In the introduction the resilience approach is presented as one possibility to describe ecosystem dynamics. The relations with the concepts of adaptability and ecological integrity are discussed and the research questions are formulated. The focal research objectives are related to the conditions of resilient behaviour of ecosystems, the role of spatio-temporal scales, the differences between short- or long-term dynamics, the basic methodological requirements to exactly define resilience, the role of the reference state and indicators and the suitability of resilience as a management concept. The main part of the paper consists of 13 small case study descriptions, which demonstrate phase transitions and resilient dynamics of several terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at different time scales. In the discussion, some problems arising from the interpretation of the time series are highlighted and discussed. The topics of discussion are the conceptual challenges of the resilience approach, methodological problems, the role of indicator selection, the complex interactions between different disturbances, the significance of time scales and a comparison of the case studies. The article ends with a conclusion which focuses on the demand to link resilience with adaptability, in order to support the long-term dynamics of ecosystem development. published |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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