Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems.

ABSTRACT: Human-caused global change produces biotic and abiotic conditions that increase the uncertainty and risk of failure of restoration efforts. A focus of managing for resiliency, that is, the ability of the system to respond to disturbance, has the potential to reduce this uncertainty and risk. However, identifying what drives resiliency might depend on how one measures it. An example of a system where identifying how the drivers of different aspects of resiliency can inform restoration under climate change is the northern coast of California, where kelp experienced a decline in coverage of over 95% due to the combination of an intense marine heat wave and the functional extinction of the primary predator of the kelp-grazing purple sea urchin, the sunflower sea star. Although restoration effo

SUBMITTER: Arroyo-Esquivel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610656 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature