A fundamental trade-off among resilience, resistance, efficiency, and redundancy in tidal wetlands.

ABSTRACT: In an era of change, the survival and adaptability of ecosystems will be tested. An optimal ecosystem would be both resistant and resilient to negative disturbance but also efficient and redundant in its growth when given positive subsidies. However, initial evidence has suggested that these properties cannot all be maximized at the same time, and so we sought to quantitatively assess whether there are fundamental trade-offs between them at the ecosystem level. To achieve this aim, we used a 250-m resolution NASA MODIS dataset of gross primary productivity (GPP) to monitor 145,871 tidal wetland locations across the conterminous United States every 16 days from March 2000 to December 2020. We quantified the size and duration of the perturbation events in tidal wetland GPP (n = 13,754,386) a

SUBMITTER: Lerner JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12833588 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature