The Use of Discontinuities and Functional Groups to Assess Relative Resilience in Complex Systems

It is evident when the resilience of a system has been exceeded and the system qualitatively changed. However, it is not clear how to measure resilience in a system prior to the demonstration that the capacity for resilient response has been exceeded. We argue that self-organizing human and natural...

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Published in:	Ecosystems (New York) Vol. 8; no. 8; pp. 958 - 966
Main Authors:	Allen, Craig R., Gunderson, L., Johnson, A. R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer Science+Business Media 01.12.2005 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Aggregation Animal physiology Cities Complex systems Ecological function Ecology Ecosystem studies Ecosystems Functional groups Special Feature Species Species diversity
ISSN:	1432-9840, 1435-0629
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