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Ecological Disturbance and Impact on Species Diversity

Ecological Disturbance and Impact on Species Diversity

Harnessing tipping points in complex ecological networks.

Junjie Jiang¹, Alan Hastings^2,3, Ying-Cheng Lai^1,4

¹School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface

|September 12, 2019

Summary

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Maintaining pollinator abundance prevents ecological tipping points and extinction cascades. This strategy also enables ecosystem recovery after critical transitions by removing hysteresis.

Keywords:

complex networks ecosystem management mutualistic networks nonlinear dynamics species recovery tipping point

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Network Theory
Conservation Biology

Background:

Complex ecological networks, such as those involving pollinators and plants, are susceptible to tipping points leading to global extinction.
These tipping points are often characterized by hysteresis, making recovery difficult once a critical threshold is crossed.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an ecologically feasible strategy for managing tipping points in mutualistic networks.
To investigate the role of hysteresis in ecosystem transitions and recovery.

Main Methods:

Utilized real-world mutualistic networks of pollinators and plants.
Developed a management strategy focused on maintaining constant abundance of a key pollinator species.
Employed a universal, two-dimensional reduced model to predict recovery points.

Main Results:

Maintaining constant pollinator abundance effectively removes hysteresis, preventing abrupt shifts to extinction states.
This management strategy can prevent sudden drastic changes when approaching a tipping point.
Active management of abundance is crucial for full ecosystem recovery after a tipping point has been passed.

Conclusions:

Constant abundance management of key species is a viable strategy to control ecological tipping points.
The removal of hysteresis is key to both preventing and recovering from critical transitions in ecological networks.
A reduced two-dimensional model can predict the recovery point in post-tipping point ecosystems.