التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene. |
المؤلفون: |
Enquist, Brian J., Erwin, Doug, Savage, Van, Marquet, Pablo A. |
المصدر: |
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 5/27/2024, Vol. 379 Issue 1902, p1-20, 20p |
مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ECOLOGICAL resilience, MACROECOLOGY, SYMMETRY (Biology), ECOLOGICAL disturbances, ECOSYSTEMS, BIODIVERSITY, BIOSPHERE |
مستخلص: |
In the Anthropocene, intensifying ecological disturbances pose significant challenges to our predictive capabilities for ecosystem responses. Macroecology—which focuses on emergent statistical patterns in ecological systems—unveils consistent regularities in the organization of biodiversity and ecosystems. These regularities appear in terms of abundance, body size, geographical range, species interaction networks, or the flux of matter and energy. This paper argues for moving beyond qualitative resilience metaphors, such as the 'ball and cup', towards a more quantitative macroecological framework. We suggest a conceptual and theoretical basis for ecological resilience that integrates macroecology with a stochastic diffusion approximation constrained by principles of biological symmetry. This approach provides an alternative novel framework for studying ecological resilience in the Anthropocene. We demonstrate how our framework can effectively quantify the impacts of major disturbances and their extensive ecological ramifications. We further show how biological scaling insights can help quantify the consequences of major disturbances, emphasizing their cascading ecological impacts. The nature of these impacts prompts a re-evaluation of our understanding of resilience. Emphasis on regularities of ecological assemblages can help illuminate resilience dynamics and offer a novel basis to predict and manage the impacts of disturbance in the Anthropocene more efficiently. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ecological novelty and planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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