Quantifying resilience of multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape.

ABSTRACT: Resilience is increasingly being considered as a new paradigm of forest management among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers. However, metrics of resilience to environmental change are lacking. Faced with novel disturbances, forests may be able to sustain existing ecosystem services and biodiversity by exhibiting resilience, or alternatively these attributes may undergo either a linear or nonlinear decline. Here we provide a novel quantitative approach for assessing forest resilience that focuses on three components of resilience, namely resistance, recovery, and net change, using a spatially explicit model of forest dynamics. Under the pulse set scenarios, we explored the resilience of nine ecosystem services and four biodiversity measures following a one-off disturbance applied t

SUBMITTER: Cantarello E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5696413 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature