Angeler, David
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Freshwater ecosystems are important for global biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. There is consensus in the scientific literature that freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to the impacts of environmental change, which may trigger irreversible regime shifts upon which biodiversity and ecosystem services may be lost. There are profound uncertainties regarding the management and assessment of the vulnerability of freshwater ecosystems to environmental change. Quantitative approaches are needed to reduce this uncertainty. We describe available statistical and modeling approaches along with case studies that demonstrate how resilience theory can be applied to aid decision-making in natural resources management. We highlight especially how long-term monitoring efforts combined with ecological theory can provide a novel nexus between ecological impact assessment and management, and the quantification of systemic vulnerability and thus the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change.
Keywords
Global change; Resilience; Regime shifts; Monitoring; Management; Vulnerability
Published in
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
2014, volume: 43, number: 1 Supplement, pages: 113-129
Publisher: SPRINGER
SLU Authors
Drakare, Stina
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mckie, Brendan
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Johnson, Richard
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Global goals (SDG)
SDG2 Zero hunger
SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources
Environmental Management
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0566-z
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/67134