Resilience (Ecology) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Forest resilience, biodiversity, and climate change, c2009: p. 4 (Ecological resilience: The ability of a system to absorb impacts before a threshold is reached where the system changes into a different state) p. 5 (Resilience: The capacity of an ecosystem to return to the pre-condition state following a perturbation, including maintaining its essential characteristics taxonomic composition, structures, ecosystem functions, and process rates) p. 7 (Resilience is the capacity of a forest to withstand (absorb) external pressures and return, over time, to its pre-disturbance state)

The dictionary of forestry, c1998 (resilience 1. ecology: the capacity of a (plant) community or ecosystem to maintain or regain normal function and development following disturbance)

Dunster, J.A. Dictionary of natural resource management, c1996 (resilience: The ability of an ecosystem to recover and maintain the desired condition of diversity, integrity, and ecological processes following disturbances)

Wikipedia, Nov. 4, 2009 (Resilience (ecology). In ecology, resilience is a property of an ecosystem which characterises ecosystem behaviour in relation to a perturbation. In order for ecosystem resilience to be defined, the ecosystem must have some sort of stability prior to the perturbation. Resilience cannot be defined for an ecosystem if this condition is not met)

Gunderson, L.H. Ecological resilience - in theory and application, 2000, via WWW, viewed Nov. 4, 2009: abstr. (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)