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

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 …

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to
understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest sense …

Highlights•Ecosystem resilience, vulnerability and robustness are available frameworks for
ecosystem management.•We provide explicit guidance on how to quantify them and when …

Quantitative approaches to measure and assess resilience are needed to bridge gaps
between science, policy and management. In this paper, we revisit definitions of resilience …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

The cross‐scale resilience model states that ecological resilience is generated in part from
the distribution of functions within and across scales in a system. Resilience is a measure of …

In a world beset by environmental disasters and anthropogenic disturbances, resilience
might be the key to the persistence of natural systems. Yet, the 'measurement'of resilience is …

Increased interest in managing resilience has led to efforts to develop standardized tools for
assessments and quantitative measures. Resilience, however, as a property of complex …

Resilience is increasingly being incorporated into environmental policy at national and
global scales. Yet resilience is a contested concept, with a wide variety of definitions …