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Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations
Climate change is predicted to cause severe economic, social, and environmental impacts to cities across the globe. As such, it is paramount for...
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Ecosystem Resilience
In this chapter, the concept of ecosystem resilience is reviewed. The concept of panarchy is approached since it allows us to understand the complex...
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Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem
BackgroundBurn severity plays an important role in sha** vegetation recovery in Mediterranean ecosystems. In the present study, we aimed to...
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A new framework for assessing ecosystem health with consideration of the sustainable supply of ecosystem services
ContextThe establishment of an ecosystem health assessment framework from a human–environment view is vital to landscape sustainability. Although...
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Climate resilience index for assessing resilience in homegardens
Extreme climatic events such as droughts, floods, cyclones, and landslides have adversely affected a homegarden that consists of its inherited...
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Understanding and applying biological resilience, from genes to ecosystems
The natural world is under unprecedented and accelerating pressure. Much work on understanding resilience to local and global environmental change...
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Bats as indicators of ecological resilience in a megacity
Urbanization has transformed more than 50% of the land area and brought the emergence of a new humanized-based ecosystem. In answer to this, urban...
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Soil Resilience
Soils are dynamic and subject to numerous degradative processes (e.g., erosion, compaction, salinization, acidification). Most of all, climatic...
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Assessment of the resilience of the agricultural landscapes and associated ecosystem services at multiple scales (a farm and landscape) in Kyrenia (Girne) Region of Northern Cyprus
The purpose of this study is to assess the resilience of agricultural landscapes and associated ecosystem services at multiple scales (a farm and...
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NbS Interventions as Tool for Urban Climate Resilience: A Case Study of Peri-Urban Ecosystem in Noida
Rapid urbanization presents one of the most urgent challenges of our times. Cities are the engines of growth and markers of development. Climate...
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Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs
Coral reefs are model systems for studies of ecological resilience, with communities generally exhibiting multiple stable states and more resilient...
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Enhancing Resilience of Boreal Forests Through Management Under Global Change: a Review
Purpose of ReviewBoreal forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are important to society. The boreal biome is experiencing the...
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Research on the coupling coordination of land use and eco-resilience based on entropy weight method: a case study on Dianchi Lake Basin
Recently, rapid urbanization has contributed to an increasingly dominant trend of people congregating around river basins. As a result, significant...
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Structural heterogeneity predicts ecological resistance and resilience to wildfire in arid shrublands
ContextDynamic feedbacks between physical structure and ecological function drive ecosystem productivity, resilience, and biodiversity maintenance....
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Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density
Concerns have been raised that the resilience of vegetated ecosystems may be negatively impacted by ongoing anthropogenic climate and land-use change...
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How to make my mixed fruit tree-vegetable systems resilient? Types and ranges of resilience levers used by French Mediterranean farmers
Resilience is a property of agricultural systems that enables them to face disturbances. A type of agroforestry – mixed fruit tree-vegetable system...
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Understanding Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Urban Ecosystem for Resilience to Climate Risks
Growing population, urbanization, changing climate, increasing prosperity and change in dietary habit is putting unprecedented challenge on Water,...
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Climate warming in the Himalayas threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services in the 21st century: is there a better solution?
Biodiversity losses can lead to global environmental crisis. Humans utilize biodiversity for a variety of ecosystem services. However, what drives...
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Scaling up tree growth to assess forest resilience under increasing aridity: the case of Iberian dry-edge pine forests
ContextMediterranean managed dry-edge pine forests maintain biodiversity and supply key ecosystem services but are threatened by climate change and...
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The Mechanism of Ecosystem Restoration and Resilience of Present-Day Coastal Lagoons by Coastal Diatoms and Their Implications for the Management of Successional Diatomite Landscapes
Diatoms of coastal lagoons have been known to be excellent proxies of their environmental changes and are excellent proxies for eco-resilience given...