Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems

Spatial Interactions and Resilience in Arid Ecosystems

Our study suggests that spatial interactions are important for the resilience of arid ecosystems. For a large range of rainfall levels, disturbances lead to ...

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We present a mathematical analysis of the consequences of spatial interactions between vegetation patches by means of water flow for the functioning of arid ...

Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems

Our model results suggest that spatial exchange of water improved the resilience to disturbances and increased the resistance to human-induced loss of cover.

Spatial Interactions and Resilience in Arid Ecosystems.

Our analysis emphasizes the general im- portance of spatial interactions for ecosystem functioning. Resilience in Arid Grassland. Resilience has ...

Exploring spatial and temporal resilience in socio‐ecological ...

Appreciation of the ways sacred forests' ecological resilience is linked to changing socio-cultural praxis over both temporal and spatial scales ...

(PDF) Spatial resilience: Integrating landscape ecology, resilience ...

PDF | Landscape ecology has a high potential to contribute to sustainability in the interactions of people and nature.

Learning from arid and urban aquatic ecosystems to inform more ...

Here we review the contributions of Dr. Nancy Grimm to aridland hydrology and ecology, and applications of these insights to urban ecosystems and resilience.

Spatial interactions among ecosystem services in an urbanizing ...

water purification may undermine the resilience of agricultural landscapes and the ecosystem services they provide. Concerns about eutrophication, drinking ...

Toward an extreme world: The hyper‐arid ecosystem as a natural ...

If extreme climatic events continue to become more frequent, spatial and temporal reorganization of vegetation cover will occur and may trigger ...

Exploring resilience interactions and its driving forces in the land ...

... spatial guidance on where and how resilience interacted. Considering the spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem resilience interactions and ...

Exploring the spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem services and ...

Overall, natural factors had a much stronger influence on ESs than human factors, and the interactions among factors were much stronger than their independent ...

Thresholds in Ecological and Social–Ecological Systems

... ecosystems, regime shifts, resilience, social–ecological systems, thresholds. ... Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems. American ...

Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Household-level ...

2006, Nyström and Folke 2001). Spatial interactions between vegetation patches have been found to affect local level dynamics of water flow in arid ecosystems ...

Ecosystem Resilience and Spatial Planning - IUCN.org

The Mediterranean landscape as we know today been shaped and modeled over the centuries as a result of human needs and interactions. Due to this co-evolution, ...

Spatial connectivity increases ecosystem resilience towards an ...

... resilient. Theory predicts that spatial connectivity and the local environment interact to shape resilience, but empirical studies are scarce. Here, we use ...

Structure, Functions, and Interactions of Dryland Ecosystems

Dryland ecosystem structure refers to the abiotic and biotic structures and their spatial patterns in arid and semiarid regions. It includes ...

Predation and spatial connectivity interact to shape ecosystem ...

We find that predatory fish habitat connectivity increases resilience to the shift, but only when densities of fish-eating top predators (seals, cormorants) ...

Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems

Indeed, interactions between species and their environment can generate emergent spatial patterns even in the absence of underlying ...

Revealing the Spatial Interactions and Driving Factors of Ecosystem ...

... spatial 'low–high' interactions in southern semi-humid areas. (2) In the northern semi-arid areas, both fractional vegetation cover (i.e., FVC) and climatic ...

The effect of climate change on the resilience of ecosystems with ...

Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems. Theor. Ecol., 3, 257–269. [Google Scholar]; Kéfi, S. , Rietkerk, M. , Roy, M. , Franc, A. , de ...