The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are
especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area …

This review provides an overview and integration of the use of resilience concepts to guide
natural resources management actions. We emphasize ecosystems and landscapes and …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

Conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource
management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics …

Regime shifts in ecosystem structure and processes are typically studied from a temporal
perspective. Yet, theory predicts that in large ecosystems with environmental gradients …

In the face of global biodiversity declines, predicting the fate of biological systems is a key
goal in ecology. One popular approach is the search for early warning signals (EWS s) …

The adaptive cycle and its extension to panarchy (nested adaptive cycles) has been a useful
metaphor and conceptual model for understanding long-term dynamics of change in …

Quantitative approaches to measure and assess resilience are needed to bridge gaps
between science, policy and management. In this paper, we revisit definitions of resilience …

Social-ecological system (SES) resilience involves the large information and complex
relationships of nature, society and economy. To promote multi-disciplinary integration to …

Understanding the capacity of ecosystems to adapt and to cope (ie adaptive capacity) with
change is crucial to their management. However, definitions of adaptive capacity are often …