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Lecina-Diaz J, Martínez-Vilalta J, Lloret F, Seidl R. Resilience and vulnerability: distinct concepts to address global change in forests. Trends Ecol Evol 2024:S0169-5347(24)00059-4. [PMID: 38531712 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Resilience and vulnerability are important concepts to understand, anticipate, and manage global change impacts on forest ecosystems. However, they are often used confusingly and inconsistently, hampering a synthetic understanding of global change, and impeding communication with managers and policy-makers. Both concepts are powerful and have complementary strengths, reflecting their different history, methodological approach, components, and spatiotemporal focus. Resilience assessments address the temporal response to disturbance and the mechanisms driving it. Vulnerability assessments focus on spatial patterns of exposure and susceptibility, and explicitly address adaptive capacity and stakeholder preferences. We suggest applying the distinct concepts of resilience and vulnerability where they provide particular leverage, and deduce a number of lessons learned to facilitate the next generation of global change assessments.
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- Judit Lecina-Diaz
- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany.
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany; Berchtesgaden National Park, Doktorberg 6, 83471 Berchtesgaden, Germany
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Nutrient Budgeting — A Robust Indicator of Soil–Water–Air Contamination Monitoring and Prevention. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2021.101944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Spears BM, Chapman DS, Carvalho L, Feld CK, Gessner MO, Piggott JJ, Banin LF, Gutiérrez-Cánovas C, Solheim AL, Richardson JA, Schinegger R, Segurado P, Thackeray SJ, Birk S. Making waves. Bridging theory and practice towards multiple stressor management in freshwater ecosystems. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 196:116981. [PMID: 33770676 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.116981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite advances in conceptual understanding, single-stressor abatement approaches remain common in the management of fresh waters, even though they can produce unexpected ecological responses when multiple stressors interact. Here we identify limitations restricting the development of multiple-stressor management strategies and address these, bridging theory and practice, within a novel empirical framework. Those critical limitations include that (i) monitoring schemes fall short of accounting for theory on relationships between multiple-stressor interactions and ecological responses, (ii) current empirical modelling approaches neglect the prevalence and intensity of multiple-stressor interactions, and (iii) mechanisms of stressor interactions are often poorly understood. We offer practical recommendations for the use of empirical models and experiments to predict the effects of freshwater degradation in response to changes in multiple stressors, demonstrating this approach in a case study. Drawing on our framework, we offer practical recommendations to support the development of effective management strategies in three general multiple-stressor scenarios.
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- Bryan M Spears
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh EH26 0QB, UK.
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh EH26 0QB, UK; Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
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- University of Duisburg-Essen, Aquatic Ecology and Centre for Water and Environmental Research, 45117 Essen, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Alte Fischerhütte 2, 16775 Stechlin, Germany; Department of Ecology, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh EH26 0QB, UK; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK
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- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Forest Research Centre (CEF), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon. Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
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- University of Duisburg-Essen, Aquatic Ecology and Centre for Water and Environmental Research, 45117 Essen, Germany
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Nikinmaa L, Lindner M, Cantarello E, Jump AS, Seidl R, Winkel G, Muys B. Reviewing the Use of Resilience Concepts in Forest Sciences. CURRENT FORESTRY REPORTS 2020; 6:61-80. [PMID: 35747899 PMCID: PMC7612878 DOI: 10.1007/s40725-020-00110-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Resilience is a key concept to deal with an uncertain future in forestry. In recent years, it has received increasing attention from both research and practice. However, a common understanding of what resilience means in a forestry context and how to operationalise it is lacking. Here, we conducted a systematic review of the recent forest science literature on resilience in the forestry context, synthesizing how resilience is defined and assessed. RECENT FINDINGS Based on a detailed review of 255 studies, we analysed how the concepts of engineering resilience, ecological resilience and social-ecological resilience are used in forest sciences. A clear majority of the studies applied the concept of engineering resilience, quantifying resilience as the recovery time after a disturbance. The two most used indicators for engineering resilience were basal area increment and vegetation cover, whereas ecological resilience studies frequently focus on vegetation cover and tree density. In contrast, important social-ecological resilience indicators used in the literature are socioeconomic diversity and stock of natural resources. In the context of global change, we expected an increase in studies adopting the more holistic social-ecological resilience concept, but this was not the observed trend. SUMMARY Our analysis points to the nestedness of these three resilience concepts, suggesting that they are complementary rather than contradictory. It also means that the variety of resilience approaches does not need to be an obstacle for operationalisation of the concept. We provide guidance for choosing the most suitable resilience concept and indicators based on the management, disturbance and application context.
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- L. Nikinmaa
- European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Box 2411, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
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- Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Box 2411, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Weise H, Auge H, Baessler C, Bärlund I, Bennett EM, Berger U, Bohn F, Bonn A, Borchardt D, Brand F, Chatzinotas A, Corstanje R, De Laender F, Dietrich P, Dunker S, Durka W, Fazey I, Groeneveld J, Guilbaud CSE, Harms H, Harpole S, Harris J, Jax K, Jeltsch F, Johst K, Joshi J, Klotz S, Kühn I, Kuhlicke C, Müller B, Radchuk V, Reuter H, Rinke K, Schmitt‐Jansen M, Seppelt R, Singer A, Standish RJ, Thulke H, Tietjen B, Weitere M, Wirth C, Wolf C, Grimm V. Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts. OIKOS 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.07213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hanna Weise
- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
- Inst. of Biology, Freie Univ. Berlin Germany
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- Dept. of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
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- Dept. of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
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- Dept. of Aquatic Ecosystems Analysis and Management, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Magdeburg Germany
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- Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill Univ. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue QC Canada
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- Dept. of Forest Sciences, Inst. of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, Technische Univ. Dresden Tharandt Germany
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
- Inst. of Biodiversity, Univ. of Jena Jena Germany
- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Aquatic Ecosystems Analysis and Management, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Magdeburg Germany
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- ZHAW School of Management and Law Winterthur Switzerland
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- Dept. of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield Univ. Cranfield Bedfordshire UK
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- Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Namur Namur Belgium
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- Dept. of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Dept. of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
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- School of the Environment, Univ. of Dundee Dundee UK
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
- Dept. of Forest Sciences, Inst. of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, Technische Univ. Dresden Tharandt Germany
- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Dept. of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Cranfield Inst, for Resilient Futures, Cranfield Univ. Cranfield Bedfordshire UK
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- Dept. of Conservation Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
- Chair of Restoration Ecology, Technische Univ. München Freising Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Univ. of Potsdam Potsdam Germany
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Univ. of Potsdam Potsdam Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Inst. of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) Berlin Germany
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- Dept. of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Ecological Dynammics, Leibniz Inst. for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin Germany
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- Dept. of Theoretical Ecology and Modelling, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) Bremen Germany
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- Dept. of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Magdeburg Germany
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- Dept. of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Dept. of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
- Inst. of Geoscience and Geography, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg Germany
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- Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
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- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch Univ. Murdoch WA Australia
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Inst. of Biology, Freie Univ. Berlin Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) Berlin Germany
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- Dept. of River Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Magdeburg Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Dept. of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
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- Dept. of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –UFZ Leipzig Germany
- C. Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Univ. of Potsdam Potsdam Germany
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Kohler M, Devaux C, Grigulis K, Leitinger G, Lavorel S, Tappeiner U. Plant functional assemblages as indicators of the resilience of grassland ecosystem service provision. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2019; 73:118-127. [PMID: 31413664 PMCID: PMC6694008 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Ecosystems provide a variety of ecosystem services (ES), which act as key linkages between social and ecological systems. ES respond spatially and temporally to abiotic and biotic variation, and to management. Thus, resistant and resilient ES provision is expected to remain within a stable range when facing disturbances. In this study, generic indicators to evaluate resistance, potential resilience and capacity for transformation of ES provision are developed and their relevance demonstrated for a mountain grassland system. Indicators are based on plant trait composition (i.e. functional composition) and abiotic parameters determining ES provision at community, meta-community and landscape scales. First the resistance of an ES is indicated by its normal operating range characterized by observed values under current conditions. Second its resilience is assessed by its potential operating range - under hypotheses of reassembly from the community's species pool. Third its transformation potential is assessed for reassembly at meta-community and landscape scales. Using a state-and-transition model, possible management-related transitions between mountain grassland states were identified, and indicators calculated for two provisioning and two regulating ES. Overall, resilience properties varied across individual ES, supporting a focus on resilience of specific ES. The resilience potential of the two provisioning services was greater than for the two regulating services, both being linked to functional complementarity within communities. We also found high transformation potential reflecting functional redundancy among communities within each meta-community, and across meta-communities in the landscape. Presented indicators are promising for the projection of future ES provision and the identification of management options under environmental change.
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- Marina Kohler
- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Corresponding author at: Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Stern-wartestraße 15, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria. (M. Kohler)
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes, CS 40700, 38058 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes, CS 40700, 38058 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes, CS 40700, 38058 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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Carvalho L, Mackay EB, Cardoso AC, Baattrup-Pedersen A, Birk S, Blackstock KL, Borics G, Borja A, Feld CK, Ferreira MT, Globevnik L, Grizzetti B, Hendry S, Hering D, Kelly M, Langaas S, Meissner K, Panagopoulos Y, Penning E, Rouillard J, Sabater S, Schmedtje U, Spears BM, Venohr M, van de Bund W, Solheim AL. Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 658:1228-1238. [PMID: 30677985 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2018] [Revised: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a pioneering piece of legislation that aims to protect and enhance aquatic ecosystems and promote sustainable water use across Europe. There is growing concern that the objective of good status, or higher, in all EU waters by 2027 is a long way from being achieved in many countries. Through questionnaire analysis of almost 100 experts, we provide recommendations to enhance WFD monitoring and assessment systems, improve programmes of measures and further integrate with other sectoral policies. Our analysis highlights that there is great potential to enhance assessment schemes through strategic design of monitoring networks and innovation, such as earth observation. New diagnostic tools that use existing WFD monitoring data, but incorporate novel statistical and trait-based approaches could be used more widely to diagnose the cause of deterioration under conditions of multiple pressures and deliver a hierarchy of solutions for more evidence-driven decisions in river basin management. There is also a growing recognition that measures undertaken in river basin management should deliver multiple benefits across sectors, such as reduced flood risk, and there needs to be robust demonstration studies that evaluate these. Continued efforts in 'mainstreaming' water policy into other policy sectors is clearly needed to deliver wider success with WFD goals, particularly with agricultural policy. Other key policy areas where a need for stronger integration with water policy was recognised included urban planning (waste water treatment), flooding, climate and energy (hydropower). Having a deadline for attaining the policy objective of good status is important, but even more essential is to have a permanent framework for river basin management that addresses the delays in implementation of measures. This requires a long-term perspective, far beyond the current deadline of 2027.
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- Centre for Water and Environmental Research and Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK
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- AZTI (Marine Research Division), Pasaia, Spain
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- Centre for Water and Environmental Research and Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
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- Centre for Water and Environmental Research and Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway
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- National Technical University, Athens and Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, and Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
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- NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany
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Angeler DG, Fried-Petersen H, Allen CR, Garmestani A, Twidwell D, Birgé HE, Chuang W, Donovan VM, Eason T, Roberts CP, Sundstrom SM, Wonkka CL. Adaptive capacity in ecosystems. ADV ECOL RES 2019; 60:1-24. [PMID: 31908359 PMCID: PMC6944309 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Understanding the adaptive capacity of ecosystems to cope with change is crucial to management. However, unclear and often confusing definitions of adaptive capacity make application of this concept difficult. In this paper, we revisit definitions of adaptive capacity and operationalize the concept. We define adaptive capacity as the latent potential of an ecosystem to alter resilience in response to change. We present testable hypotheses to evaluate complementary attributes of adaptive capacity that may help further clarify the components and relevance of the concept. Adaptive sampling, inference and modeling can reduce key uncertainties incrementally over time and increase learning about adaptive capacity. Such improvements are needed because uncertainty about global change and its effect on the capacity of ecosystems to adapt to social and ecological change is high.
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- David G Angeler
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- University of Nebraska, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, Keim Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 66583-0915
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- University of Nebraska -- Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- University of Nebraska, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, Keim Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 66583-0915
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- University of Nebraska, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, Keim Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 66583-0915
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- University of Nebraska -- Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- University of Nebraska, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, Keim Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 66583-0915
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Angeler DG, Allen CR, Garmestani A, Pope KL, Twidwell D, Bundschuh M. Resilience in Environmental Risk and Impact Assessment: Concepts and Measurement. BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2018; 101:543-548. [PMID: 30357430 PMCID: PMC6223862 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-018-2467-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Different resilience concepts have different assumptions about system dynamics, which has implications for resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. Engineering resilience (recovery) dominates in the risk assessment literature but this definition does not account for the possibility of ecosystems to exist in multiple regimes. In this paper we discuss resilience concepts and quantification methods. Specifically, we discuss when a system fails to show engineering resilience after disturbances, indicating a shift to a potentially undesired regime. We show quantification methods that can assess the stability of this new regime to inform managers about possibilities to transform the system to a more desired regime. We point out the usefulness of an adaptive inference, modelling and management approach that is based on reiterative testing of hypothesis. This process facilitates learning about, and reduces uncertainty arising from risk and impact.
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- David G. Angeler
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68503-0984 USA
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz – Landau, Landau Campus, 76829 Landau, Germany
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- David G. Angeler
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; PO Box 7050 SE-750 07 Uppsala Sweden
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- U.S. Geological Survey; Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; School of Natural Resources; University of Nebraska; Lincoln NE USA
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Eason T, Garmestani AS, Stow CA, Rojo C, Alvarez-Cobelas M, Cabezas H. Managing for resilience: an information theory-based approach to assessing ecosystems. J Appl Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tarsha Eason
- National Risk Management Research Laboratory; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
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- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory; National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; Ann Arbor MI 48108 USA
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology; University of Valencia; Valencia Spain
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- National Risk Management Research Laboratory; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
- Department of Computer Science and Systems Technology; University of Pannonia; Veszprem H-8200 Hungary
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Pocock MJ, Evans DM, Fontaine C, Harvey M, Julliard R, McLaughlin Ó, Silvertown J, Tamaddoni-Nezhad A, White PC, Bohan DA. The Visualisation of Ecological Networks, and Their Use as a Tool for Engagement, Advocacy and Management. ADV ECOL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Oliver TH, Heard MS, Isaac NJB, Roy DB, Procter D, Eigenbrod F, Freckleton R, Hector A, Orme CDL, Petchey OL, Proença V, Raffaelli D, Suttle KB, Mace GM, Martín-López B, Woodcock BA, Bullock JM. Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions. Trends Ecol Evol 2015; 30:673-684. [PMID: 26437633 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 434] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Revised: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their 'resilience') is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.
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- Tom H Oliver
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK; NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
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- NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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