Neubert, M. G. & Caswell, H. Alternatives to resilience for measuring the responses of ecological systems to perturbations.
The study used a relatively new global biodiversity database called Predicts (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems), which contains field data from hundreds of scientists documenting how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts.
The ability to predict the responses of ecological communities and individual species to human-induced environmental change remains a key issue for ecologists and conservation managers alike.
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To understand the responses of ecological communities to anthropogenic disturbance and to manage and mitigate effects, indices for assessing the ecological integrity of estuarine and coastal waters have proliferated worldwide.
Land use/cover and fractional vegetation coverage (Fvc) maps derived from remote sensing images, ground validation data, and hydrological observation data are adopted to analyze the responses of Ecological Water Diversion Project (EWDP).
In these situations differences in reef assemblages are due to longer-term, integrated responses of ecological assemblages to environmental conditions, and therefore, statistical confirmations of the cause(s) that led to 'undesirable' conditions are not available [19] [21].
Characterising how evolution and coevolution of the parts affects community-level properties is vital to understanding the responses of ecological communities to changes in environment at all scales.
The response of the ecological indicators was only slightly affected by the SMS, whereas SUS choice did not influence the ecological status assessment.
Better understanding the response of these ecological systems, it is argued, will enable society to better ameliorate, adapt to, and even benefit from, the forces of global change.
