Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

Standish, Rachel J.; Hobbs, Richard J.; Mayfield, Margaret M.; Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.; Suding, Katharine N.; Battaglia, Loretta L.; Eviner, Valerie T.; Hawkes, Christine V.; Temperton, Vicky M.; Cramer, Viki A.; Harris, J. Arthur; Funk, Jennifer L.; Thomas, Peter A.

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“…89 There has been much semantic and theoretical treatment of the resilience concept, but 90 here we are concerned with identifying metrics for real world applications. An ecological 91 system can be defined by the species composition at any point in time [26] and there is a 92 rich ecological literature, both theoretical and experimental, that focusses on the stability of 93 communities [16,[27][28][29] with potential relevance to resilience. Of course, the species in a 94 community are essential to the provision of many ecosystem functions which are the 95 biological foundation of ecosystem services [3].…”

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

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“…In the policy domain, resilience has gained traction as a goal for ecosystem management more generally (Standish et al, 2014). It has recently been proposed as a goal for regulatory and non-regulatory actions for ameliorating OA in the U.S., such as by restoring oyster beds, considering OA in fisheries management decisions, and changing land use and land development practices in ways that alleviate OA (Cooley et al, 2016).…”

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Using integrated, ecosystem-level management to address intensifying ocean acidification and hypoxia in the California Current large marine ecosystem

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Ocean acidification is intensifying and hypoxia is projected to expand in the California Current large marine ecosystem as a result of processes associated with the global emission of CO 2 . Observed changes in the California Current outpace those in many other areas of the ocean, underscoring the pressing need to adopt management approaches that can accommodate uncertainty and the complicated dynamics forced by accelerating change. We argue that changes occurring in the California Current large marine ecosystem provide opportunities and incentives to adopt an integrated, systems-level approach to resource management to preserve existing ecosystem services and forestall abrupt change. Practical options already exist to maximize the benefits of management actions and ameliorate impending change in the California Current, for instance, adding ocean acidification and hypoxia to design criteria for marine protected areas, including consideration of ocean acidification and hypoxia in fisheries management decisions, and fully enforcing existing laws and regulations that govern water quality and land use and development.

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“…Overfishing, nutrient input, habitat modification, and climate change together have created a simplified coastal ecosystem, which can rapidly respond to external influences in an unpredictable way. Loss of resilience, through the combined effects of multiple pressures, can make ecosystems more vulnerable to changes that could have previously been absorbed (Standish et al 2014) and can increase the possibility that regime shifts might trigger other shifts in the systems. These cascading regime shifts are likely to lead to highly resilient new regimes that are undesirable and often irreversible.…”

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Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

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2015

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Regime shift often results in large, abrupt, and persistent changes in the provision of ecosystem services and can therefore have significant impacts on human wellbeing. Understanding regime shifts has profound implications for ecosystem recovery and management. China's coastal ecosystems have experienced substantial deterioration within the past decades, at a scale and speed the world has never seen before. Yet, information about this coastal ecosystem change from a dynamics perspective is quite limited. In this review, I synthesize existing information on coastal ecosystem regime shifts in China and discuss their interactions and cascading effects. The accumulation of regime shifts in China's coastal ecosystems suggests that the desired system resilience has been profoundly eroded, increasing the potential of abrupt shifts to undesirable states at a larger scale, especially given multiple escalating pressures. Policy and management strategies need to incorporate resilience approaches in order to cope with future challenges and avoid major losses in China's coastal ecosystem services.

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Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

Cited by 337 publications

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

Using integrated, ecosystem-level management to address intensifying ocean acidification and hypoxia in the California Current large marine ecosystem

Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

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