The resilience of ecosystems to drought

Zhang, Zhenyu; Li, Xiaoyu

doi:10.1111/gcb.16724

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“…This represents an enhanced exploration of MDD for regional natural materials, aiming to discover and validate the ecological sustainability and emotional narrative characteristics of materials. This method is based on the adaptive cycle proposed by Holling and colleagues [52]. Unlike the original use of a four-phase cycle to describe the evolving dynamics of systems, E 2 -MDD employs a four-phase cycle to outline the application process and sustainable effects of the method, specifically, screening the main material quality, capturing the user emotion vision, deconstructing the E 2 vision pattern, and deducting the product design concept.…”

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A Case Study in Natural Fibre Material (Luffa Sponge) Development Using E2-Material-Driven Design

Li,

Wang,

Zhang

2024

Sustainability

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To unleash the emotional potential of natural fibre materials in sustainable development and utilisation, this paper presents a material-driven design method with emotional and ecological indicators (E2-MDD). The method offers product-level solutions for the sustainable development of natural materials. The method involves several steps, such as screening the main material quality, capturing the user emotion vision, deconstructing the E2 vision pattern, and deducting the product design concept. The method was tested on luffa sponge samples, seen as one kind of traditional fibre resource, which resulted in four differentiated schemes, which were evaluated using the E2-MDD ring radar column score chart. The study identified three key emotional qualities for natural fibre materials: associativity, uniqueness, and biophilicity. The results show that product concepts closer to the natural material’s original form scored higher, while the inclusion of non-natural materials had a negative impact on the evaluations. This study also found that E2-MDD could strengthen the emotional and ecological connection between people and products, further indicating that material and design can establish a link between environmental friendliness and emotional experience. Lastly, the paper suggests future development areas for the E2-MDD method, including focusing on users, ecology, and business.

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A Case Study in Natural Fibre Material (Luffa Sponge) Development Using E2-Material-Driven Design

Li,

Wang,

Zhang

2024

Sustainability

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Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery

Xu,

Chen,

Chen

et al. 2024

Nat. Geosci.

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Critical slowing down of the Amazon forest after increased drought occurrence

Van Passel,

Bernardino,

Lhermitte

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Dynamic ecosystems, such as the Amazon forest, are expected to show critical slowing down behavior, or slower recovery from recurrent small perturbations, as they approach an ecological threshold to a different ecosystem state. Drought occurrences are becoming more prevalent across the Amazon, with known negative effects on forest health and functioning, but their actual role in the critical slowing down patterns still remains elusive. In this study, we evaluate the effect of trends in extreme drought occurrences on temporal autocorrelation (TAC) patterns of satellite-derived indices of vegetation activity, an indicator of slowing down, between 2001 and 2019. Differentiating between extreme drought frequency, intensity, and duration, we investigate their respective effects on the slowing down response. Our results indicate that the intensity of extreme droughts is a more important driver of slowing down than their duration, although their impacts vary across the different Amazon regions. In addition, areas with more variable precipitation are already less ecologically stable and need fewer droughts to induce slowing down. We present findings indicating that most of the Amazon region does not show an increasing trend in TAC. However, the predicted increase in extreme drought intensity and frequency could potentially transition significant portions of this ecosystem into a state with altered functionality.

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The resilience of ecosystems to drought

Abstract: In this commentary, we summarize the contributions of Yao et al. in the study of resilience of ecosystems to drought and point out future research directions that need further attention.

Cited by 3 publications

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A Case Study in Natural Fibre Material (Luffa Sponge) Development Using E2-Material-Driven Design

A Case Study in Natural Fibre Material (Luffa Sponge) Development Using E2-Material-Driven Design

Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery

Critical slowing down of the Amazon forest after increased drought occurrence

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