Resilience is usually defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to absorb disturbance without
shifting to an alternative state and losing function and services [1–3]. The concept therefore …

From its roots in ecology, resilience (Holling 1973) has more recently been applied to social–
ecological systems, or SES. Theories of changing resilience explicitly address the …

Stability is one of the most important characteristics in ecosystem. Of many concepts of
ecosystem stability, ecologists regard it as the definition of stability that the capability of …

生态安全概念的提出已有十多年, 但是至今还未有一个统一的定义. 在“生态”
涵义上的分歧导致了“生态安全” 的许多种解释: 强调生物(系统) 与环境或与其他生物之间可持续 …

自从MacArthur和Elton分别在本世纪五十年代提出了多样性一稳定性理论以后,
对多样性一稳定性的关系问题展开了激烈的争论. 最初, 为了简便起见, 有时把多样性描述为一个 …

As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem
dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of …

Marine ecosystems were among the first to provide potential examples of multiple stable
states. However, remarkably few of these have been explored in detail, and none have been …

生物多样性和生态系统稳定性之间的关系是生态学的热门话题. 围绕这一主题,
文章回顾了其研究历史及学术界的不同观点, 阐述了目前在理论和实验领域的主要工作结果 …

T. Fukami and WG Lee argue that the logical expectation from ecological theory is that
competitively‐structured assemblages will be more likely to exhibit alternative stable states …