Resistance, recovery and resilience are three important properties of ecological stability, but
they have rarely been studied in semi-arid grasslands under global change. We analyzed
data from a field experiment conducted in a native grassland in northern China to explore
the effects of experimentally enhanced precipitation and N deposition on both absolute and
relative measures of community resistance, recovery and resilience—calculated in terms of
community cover—after a natural drought. For both absolute and relative measures …

Resistance, recovery and resilience are three important properties of ecological stability, but
they have rarely been studied in semi-arid grasslands under global change. We analyzed
data from a field experiment conducted in a native grassland in northern China to explore
the effects of experimentally enhanced precipitation and N deposition on both absolute and
relative measures of community resistance, recovery and resilience-calculated in terms of
community cover-after a natural drought. For both absolute and relative measures …