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Published on: October 12, 2015
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Rebecca V Gladstone-Gallagher1, Conrad A Pilditch2, Fabrice Stephenson3
1School of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Abstract:
Under globally accelerating rates of ecosystem degradation, maintaining ecosystem function is a priority to avoid loss of valuable ecosystem services. Two factors are important: changes to the disturbance regime (stresses imposed) and resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functions (the ecosystem's capacity to respond to change). Various attributes at different scales of ecological organisation confer resilience (from individual species to communities at landscape scales), but it is critical to understand how these attributes interact to inform how ecosystem function changes with disturbances that vary in intensity, spatial extent, and frequency. Individual species attributes influence their resistance, while attributes at the landscape-scale influence recovery of communities and function. Understanding resilience to disturbances requires defining the characteristics of a resilient community at multiple scales.
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