The concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multi-scale
processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on …

There have been several earlier studies that addressed the influence of natural disturbance
regimes on coral reefs. Humans alter natural disturbance regimes, introduce new stressors …

Some social-ecological systems (SESs) have persisted for hundreds of years, remaining in
particular configurations that have withstood a variety of natural and social disturbances …

The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the
dynamics of social–ecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience …

We review the evidence for multiple ecological states and the factors that create ecological
resilience in coral reef ecosystems. There are natural differences among benthic …

Resilience theory is an expanding body of ideas that attempts to provide explanations for the
source and role of change in adaptive systems, particularly the kinds of change that are …

Context Coral reef resilience is the product of multiple interacting processes that occur
across various interacting scales. This complexity presents challenges for identifying …

Governance of coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) and the underlying geomorphic
processes that structure and alter Earth's surface is a key challenge for global sustainability …

Conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource
management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics …

As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible
impacts of human activities on the planet—encapsulated in the notion of the Anthropocene …