Disturbance type determines how connectivity shapes ecosystem resilience.

ABSTRACT: Connectivity is fundamentally important for shaping the resilience of complex human and natural networks when systems are disturbed. Ecosystem resilience is, in part, shaped by the spatial arrangement of habitats, the permeability and fluxes between them, the stabilising functions performed by organisms, their dispersal traits, and the interactions between functions and stressor types. Controlled investigations of the relationships between these phenomena under multiple stressors are sparse, possibly due to logistic and ethical difficulties associated with applying and controlling stressors at landscape scales. Here we show that grazing performance, a key ecosystem function, is linked to connectivity by manipulating the spatial configuration of habitats in microcosms impacted by multiple s

SUBMITTER: Pearson RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature