Recent evidence shows that the frequencies and intensities of past disturbances can
mediate recovery rates from current disturbances [12]. Moreover, global environmental …

摘要生态系统健康是近年才发展起来的生态学上的一个研究热点. 与可持续性一样,
生态系统健康在生态学中也是很重要的新的研究领域. 本文对生态系统健康及与之相关的概念 …

The biosphere is under unprecedented pressure, reflected in rapid changes in our global
ecological, social, technological and economic systems. In many cases, ecological and …

One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different
communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these …

Multiple stable states or alternative equilibria in ecological systems have been recognized
since the 1960s in the ecological literature. Very often, the shift between alternative states …

First conceptualized in the 1970s, resilience has become a popular term in the ecological
literature, used in the title, abstract, or keywords of approximately 1% of papers identified by …

Ecological stability defined as the ability of an ecosystem to resist changes in the presence
of perturbations leads to consideration of the effective choice of the pathways for energy …

Ecological integrity is the capability to support and maintain a balanced, integrative and
adaptive biologic system, having the full range of elements and processes expected in the …

The modern study of stability in ecology can be said to have begun with the appearance of
'Fluctuations of Animal Populations and a Measure of Community Stability', by RH MacArthur …

In this paper different approaches to elucidate ecosystem dynamics are described,
illustrated and interrelated. Ecosystem development is distinguished into two separate …