Ecological resilience

Peterson, G., Allen, C.R. and Holling, C.S. 1998. Ecological resilience, biodiversity, and scale. 

More generally, our studies offer an example of the value of direct microcalorimetry in studying homeostatic properties of ecosystems. Here, heat dissipation with respect to seasons is an adequate parameter of the ability of the system to return, after transitory oscillations, to a new steady state (a parameter of ecological "resilience"). 

Gunderson LH. 2000. Ecological resilience in theory and application. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 31 425-439. 

Adger, N.W. 2000. Social and Ecological Resilience. ProgreM in Human Geography 24, (2000) No 3. 

Adger WN (2000) Social and ecological resilience are they related Prog Hum Geogr 24(3) 347-364... 

Steneck RS, Graham MH, Bourque BJ, Corbett D, Erlandson JM, Estes JA, Tegner MJ (2002) Kelp forest ecosystems biodiversity, stability, resilience and future. Environ Conserv 29 436-459 Strauss SY, Rudgers JA, Lau JA, Irwin RE (2002) Direct and ecological costs of resistance to herbivory. Trends Ecol Evol 17 278-284... 

Peterson CG, Stevenson RJ (1992) Resistance and resilience of lotic algal communities importance of disturbance timing and current. Ecology 73 1445... 

Provision of ecological services, such as crop protection, yield stability and system resilience. 

Trenbath, B.R. 1999. Multispecies cropping systems in India predictions of their productivity, stability, resilience and ecological sustainability. Agroforestry Systems 45(1-3) 81-107. 

Ecological key(stone) species are species that play a major role in ecosystem performance, productivity, stability, and resilience. These species may also play an important role in ecosystem function (see below) and include 1) species that are critical determinants in trophic cascades, such as piscivorous fish and large herbivores and 2) species that are ecological engineers, that is, those that have a large influence on the physical properties of habitats such as rooted submerged macrophytes and beavers... 

Extrapolation between structure and function is an area in ecotoxicology that is not well understood. At the ecosystem level, current protective regulations often rely on the functional redundancy concept, applied in conjunction with results from species-poor model systems with high resilience. Evidence from recent studies in ecology suggests that functional redundancy exists within natural communities, but the relative contribution of different species to specific functions is far from equal, and the disappearance of certain species, such as dominant species or keystone species, can have large effects on overall system function and the occurrence of other species. 

McClanahan, T., Polunin, N., and Done, T. (2002). Ecological states and the resilience of coral reefs. Conserv. Ecol. 6(2), 18. 

Use of multiple clones (ecological diversity and resiliency, capacity of the system to respond to environmental stresses)... 

Such a material flow model and such a system of chemical manufacturing is not sustainable. The natural systems of the planet are not linear, one-pass systems. Instead, the planet s systems are remarkably sophisticated cyclical systems in which materials and energy constantly flow through repeating cycles. The homeostatic equilibrium of ecological processes is resilient up to a point, but the torrent of synthetic chemical products and wastes that have been produced by the chemical... 

Ecological / Community analysis e.g. diversity, abundance, resilience... 

Logically, risk is always connected to an object or area of concern. Within RISKBASE this risk object is defined as the goods and services provided by the biophysical soil-sediment-water system (ecological system), with a specific focus on the resilience of the system. Furthermore, RISKBASE focuses on the goods and services that are directly (or immediately indirectly) affected by rivers, lakes and groundwater. 

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