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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 251-259Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.013
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- ERA-Net BiodivERsA project 'REGARDS' (Austrian Science Fund) [I1056]
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (project ClimLUC)
- University of Innsbruck
- Austrian Science Fund [P28572]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [I1056, P28572] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Resilience is a key concept in ecology and describes the capacity of an ecosystem to maintain its state and recover from disturbances. Numerous metrics have been applied to quantify resilience over a range of ecosystems. However, the way resilience is quantified affects the degree to which different trajectories of ecosystem recovery from disturbance are represented as 'resilient', precluding a comparison of disturbance responses across ecosystems and their properties and functions. To approach a broadly comparable assessment of resilience we suggest using a bivariate framework that jointly considers the disturbance impact and the recovery rate, both normalized to the undisturbed state of a system. We demonstrate the potential of the framework for attribution and integration across the various components underlying resilience.
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