Abstract

Resilience research is central to confront the sustainability challenges to ecosystems and human societies in a rapidly changing world. Given that social-ecological problems span the entire Earth system, there is a critical need for resil-ience models that account for the connectivity across intricately linked ecosystems (i.e., freshwater, marine, terrestrial, atmosphere). We present a resilience perspective of meta-ecosystems that are connected through the flow of biota, matter and energy within and across aquatic and terrestrial realms, and the atmosphere. We demonstrate ecological resilience sensu Holling using aquatic-terrestrial linkages and riparian ecosystems more generally. A discussion of ap-plications in riparian ecology and meta-ecosystem research (e.g., resilience quantification, panarchy, meta-ecosystem boundary delineations, spatial regime migration, including early warning indications) concludes the paper. Under-standing meta-ecosystem resilience may have potential to support decision making for natural resource management (scenario planning, risk and vulnerability assessments).

Keywords

Aquatic-terrestrial coupling; Riparian ecosystems; Meta-ecosystems; Resilience; Panarchy; Spatial resilience; Spatial regimes; Scale; Meta-social-ecological systems

Published in

Science of the Total Environment
2023, Volume: 889, article number: 164169
Publisher: ELSEVIER

SLU Authors

• Angeler, David

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Brain Capital Alliance
  • Deakin University
  • University of Nebraska Lincoln

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology
Environmental Sciences


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164169

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/122805