Under globally accelerating rates of ecosystem degradation, maintaining ecosystem function
is a priority to avoid loss of valuable ecosystem services. Two factors are important: changes …

ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of biodiversity for
ecosystem stability and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem functionality. Conservation …

Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity
threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Biological diversity appears to enhance the resilience of desirable ecosystem states, which
is required to secure the production of essential ecosystem services. The diversity of …

Disturbances, nature as well as human, are putting constant pressure on ecosystems. These
include small scale disturbances like a falling tree, but also large scale disturbances like …

▪ Abstract We review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic environments in
relation to resilience of complex adaptive ecosystems and the functional roles of biological …

Ecosystem resilience depends on functional redundancy (the number of species
contributing similarly to an ecosystem function) and response diversity (how functionally …

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 …

Ecology's relevance to resilience Some resilience researchers argue that only an SES
perspective makes sense for ecosystem resilience, because every ecosystem is affected by …