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Foundations of ecological resilience (2010)

Gunderson, Lance H. [Hrsg.] ; Allen, Craig R. [Hrsg.] ; Holling, Crawford S. [Hrsg.]

Washington, DC : Island Press

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Call number: IASS 12.0009

Description / Table of Contents: Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. This book collects important articles on the subject of ecological resilience.This title presents the evolution of resilience theory in seminal papers and commentary. Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems. Resilience theory is especially important to environmental scientists for its role in underpinning adaptive management approaches to ecosystem and resource management. "Foundations of Ecological Resilience" is a collection of the most important articles on the subject of ecological resilience - those writings that have defined and developed basic concepts in the field and help explain its importance and meaning for scientists and researchers.The book's three sections cover articles that have shaped or defined the concepts and theories of resilience, including key papers that broke new conceptual ground and contributed novel ideas to the field; examples that demonstrate ecological resilience in a range of ecosystems; and, articles that present practical methods for understanding and managing nonlinear ecosystem dynamics. "Foundations of Ecological Resilience" is an important contribution to our collective understanding of resilience and an invaluable resource for students and scholars in ecology, wildlife ecology, conservation biology, sustainability, environmental science, public policy, and related fields.

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Pages: XXV, 466 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 9781597265119

Branch Library: RIFS Library

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Barriers and bridges to the renewal of ecosystems and institutions (1995)

Gunderson, Lance H. [Hrsg.] ; Holling, Buzz [Hrsg.] ; Light, Steve [Hrsg.]

New York [u.a.] : Columbia University Press

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Call number: IASS 12.0048

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Pages: XIV, 593 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. , 24 cm

ISBN: 0231101023

Note: Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:1995

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Resilience and the behavior of large-scale systems (2002)

Gunderson, Lance H. ; Pritchard, Lowell Jr.

Washington [u.a.] : Island Press

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Call number: PIK B 160-03-0017

Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan

Pages: 240 p.

ISBN: 1559639709

Series Statement: Scope Report 60

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Panarchy : Understanding transformations in systems of humans and nature (2002)

Gunderson, Lance H. ; Holling, C.S.

Washington : Island Press

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Call number: PIK B 160-02-0338

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Pages: 507 p.

ISBN: 1559638575

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ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE - IN THEORY AND APPLICATION (2000)

Gunderson, Lance H.

Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 31 (2000), S. 425-439

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ISSN: 0066-4162

Source: Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff

Topics: Biology

Notes: Abstract In 1973, C. S. Holling introduced the word resilience into the ecological literature as a way of helping to understand the non-linear dynamics observed in ecosystems. Ecological resilience was defined as the amount of disturbance that an ecosystem could withstand without changing self-organized processes and structures (defined as alternative stable states). Other authors consider resilience as a return time to a stable state following a perturbation. A new term, adaptive capacity, is introduced to describe the processes that modify ecological resilience. Two definitions recognize the presence of multiple stable states (or stability domains), and hence resilience is the property that mediates transition among these states. Transitions among stable states have been described for many ecosystems, including semi-arid rangelands, lakes, coral reefs, and forests. In these systems, ecological resilience is maintained by keystone structuring processes across a number of scales, sources of renewal and reformation, and functional biodiversity. In practice, maintaining a capacity for renewal in a dynamic environment provides an ecological buffer that protects the system from the failure of management actions that are taken based upon incomplete understanding, and it allows managers to affordably learn and change.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.425

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ACCOUNTING FOR DISCREPANCIES IN PAN EVAPORATION CALCULATIONS (1989)

Gunderson, Lance H.

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Journal of the American Water Resources Association 25 (1989), S. 0

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ISSN: 1752-1688

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Geography

Notes: : Four experiments were made to document and account for differences in evaporation data that were calculated using pans equipped with float-activated recorders and pans with hook gauge/rain gauge instrumentation. Paired in-pan comparisons indicated that evaporation differences were not due to the technique of measuring water level within the pan. Also, the recorder float-lag did not account for the differences. By sampling rainfall events, it was found that evaporation pans and standard (8 in. orifice) rain gauges record significantly different amounts of rain, which results in differences in calculated evaporation on rainy days. Monitoring networks with evaporation pans should have uniform instrumentation that accurately records rainfall into the pans for consistent results.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1989.tb03094.x

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Environmental management scenarios: Ecological implications (1999)

Ogden, John C. ; Browder, Joan A. ; Gentile, John H. ; [et al.]

Springer

Urban ecosystems 3 (1999), S. 279-303

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ISSN: 1573-1642

Keywords: scenario-consequence analysis ; hydrology ; landscape mosaic ; ecosystem management

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering

Notes: Abstract The measure of whether a management scenario is capable of establishing regional-scale ecosystem sustainability is the degree to which it recovers the historical characteristics of the regional landscape mosaic. This study examines the ability of alternate management scenarios to recover the defining ecological features of the Everglades and South Florida landscape. Five conceptual scenarios are evaluated for recovering and sustaining the ecological characteristics of the wetland systems in South Florida. First, the regional-scale physical characteristics are identified that created and supported the major organizing and driving forces in the predrainage Everglades and Big Cypress basins. Eight hypotheses are proposed to explain how human-caused modifications to these defining characteristics have been responsible for the substantial level of ecological deterioration that has been documented in South Florida wetlands during the last century. The restoration scenarios are evaluated on their proposed ability to correct the physical and biological problems identified by the hypotheses. Our assessment of the five scenarios shows that all would improve the problems addressed by the eight hypotheses, as all could more effectively move increased volumes of water across broader expanses of contiguous wetlands than do existing management programs. This would result in longer hydroperiods over larger areas, reflecting historical patterns. Two of the scenarios would be successful in increasing flows into Florida Bay and the Gulf coast estuaries because removing internal structures increases the spatial extent of the upstream areas that could be devoted to natural hydropatterns. The benefits of eastern boundary buffer zones include improved flow into the Taylor Slough basin. Using Lake Okeechobee as a site for increased water storage, followed by the addition of eastern buffer zones and portions of the Everglades Agricultural Area, would produce increased flexibility in providing the storage capacity required to meet sustainability goals. Scenarios with maximum areas of buffer not only are more successful in reducing groundwater seepage losses to the east but also are more likely to reduce the level of nutrients and other contaminants entering the natural wetlands.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009508718195

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