Shadow Value of Ecosystem Resilience in Complex Natural Land as a Wild Pollinator Habitat

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyohei Matsushita ◽  
Hisatomo Taki ◽  
Fumihiro Yamane ◽  
Kota Asano
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Resilience ◽  
Natural Land ◽  
Shadow Value

scholarly journals Water quality of Sempu Strait to support the ecosystem resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 797 (1) ◽  
pp. 012002
Author(s):  
A Isdianto ◽  
O M Luthfi ◽  
M A Asadi ◽  
M F Haykal ◽  
N Harahab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Ecosystem Resilience

Unraveling the AM fungal community for understanding its ecosystem resilience to changed climate in agroecosystems

Symbiosis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipanti Chourasiya ◽  
Manju M. Gupta ◽  
Sumit Sahni ◽  
Fritz Oehl ◽  
Richa Agnihotri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Community ◽  
Ecosystem Resilience

scholarly journals Comprehensive Assessment Indicator of Ecosystem Resilience in Central Asia

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Xue Fan ◽  
Xingming Hao ◽  
Haichao Hao ◽  
Jingjing Zhang ◽  
Yuanhang Li
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Net Primary Productivity ◽  
Ecosystem Resilience ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Grassland Vegetation ◽  
High Coverage ◽  
Casa Model ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Resilience Index

The ecosystems in the arid inland areas of Central Asia are fragile and severely degraded. Understanding and assessing ecosystem resilience is a challenge facing ecosystems. Based on the net primary productivity (NPP) data estimated by the CASA model, this study conducted a quantitative analysis of the ecosystem’s resilience and comprehensively reflected its resilience from multiple dimensions. Furthermore, a comprehensive resilience index was constructed. The result showed that plain oasis’s ecosystem resilience is the highest, followed by deserts and mountainous areas. From the perspective of vegetation types, the highest resilience is artificial vegetation and the lowest is forest. In warm deserts, the resilience is higher in shrubs and meadows and lower in grassland vegetation. High coverage and biomass are not the same as the strong adaptability of the ecosystem. Moderate and slightly inelastic areas mainly dominate the ecosystem resilience of the study area. The new method is easy to use. The evaluation result is reliable. It can quantitatively analyze the resilience latitude and recovery rate, a beneficial improvement to the current ecosystem resilience evaluation.

scholarly journals Reduced resilience of terrestrial ecosystems locally is not reflected on a global scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhao Feng ◽  
Haojie Su ◽  
Zhiyao Tang ◽  
Shaopeng Wang ◽  
Xia Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Terrestrial Vegetation ◽  
Ecosystem Resilience

AbstractGlobal climate change likely alters the structure and function of vegetation and the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. It is therefore important to assess the factors controlling ecosystem resilience from local to global scales. Here we assess terrestrial vegetation resilience over the past 35 years using early warning indicators calculated from normalized difference vegetation index data. On a local scale we find that climate change reduced the resilience of ecosystems in 64.5% of the global terrestrial vegetated area. Temperature had a greater influence on vegetation resilience than precipitation, while climate mean state had a greater influence than climate variability. However, there is no evidence for decreased ecological resilience on larger scales. Instead, climate warming increased spatial asynchrony of vegetation which buffered the global-scale impacts on resilience. We suggest that the response of terrestrial ecosystem resilience to global climate change is scale-dependent and influenced by spatial asynchrony on the global scale.

scholarly journals The Role of Biophilic Agents in Building a Green Resilient City; the Case of Birmingham, UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5033
Author(s):  
Linda Novosadová ◽  
Wim van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Natural Land ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The City

The present research offers an exploration into the biophilic approach and the role of its agents in urban planning in questions of building a green, resilient urban environment. Biophilia, the innate need of humans to connect with nature, coined by Edgar O. Wilson in 1984, is a concept that has been used in urban governance through institutions, agents’ behaviours, activities and systems to make the environment nature-inclusive. Therefore, it leads to green, resilient environments and to making cities more sustainable. Due to an increasing population, space within and around cities keeps on being urbanised, replacing natural land cover with concrete surfaces. These changes to land use influence and stress the environment, its components, and consequently impact the overall resilience of the space. To understand the interactions and address the adverse impacts these changes might have, it is necessary to identify and define the environment’s components: the institutions, systems, and agents. This paper exemplifies the biophilic approach through a case study in the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom and its biophilic agents. Using the categorisation of agents, the data obtained through in-situ interviews with local professionals provided details on the agent fabric and their dynamics with the other two environments’ components within the climate resilience framework. The qualitative analysis demonstrates the ways biophilic agents act upon and interact within the environment in the realm of urban planning and influence building a climate-resilient city. Their activities range from small-scale community projects for improving their neighbourhood to public administration programs focusing on regenerating and regreening the city. From individuals advocating for and educating on biophilic approach, to private organisations challenging the business-as-usual regulations, it appeared that in Birmingham the biophilic approach has found its representatives in every agent category. Overall, the activities they perform in the environment define their role in building resilience. Nonetheless, the role of biophilic agents appears to be one of the major challengers to the urban design’s status quo and the business-as-usual of urban governance. Researching the environment, focused on agents and their behaviour and activities based on nature as inspiration in addressing climate change on a city level, is an opposite approach to searching and addressing the negative impacts of human activity on the environment. This focus can provide visibility of the local human activities that enhance resilience, while these are becoming a valuable input to city governance and planning, with the potential of scaling it up to other cities and on to regional, national, and global levels.

scholarly journals Anchor Forests and Tribal Lifeways to Improve Ecosystem Resilience and Maintain Working Forests

2017 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 341-342
Author(s):  
Mark V. Corrao ◽  
Steve Andringa
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Resilience

scholarly journals The shadow value of employer-provided training

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Budría
Keyword(s):  
Shadow Value
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