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

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

The provisioning of ecosystem services to society is increasingly under pressure from global
change. Changing disturbance regimes are of particular concern in this context due to their …

The biosphere is under unprecedented pressure, reflected in rapid changes in our global
ecological, social, technological and economic systems. In many cases, ecological and …

The concept of panarchy provides a framework that characterizes complex systems of
people and nature as dynamically organized and structured within and across scales of …

Unprecedented bark beetle outbreaks have been observed for a variety of forest ecosystems
recently, and damage is expected to further intensify as a consequence of climate change. In …

Anthropogenic global change compromises forest resilience, with profound impacts to
ecosystem functions and services. This synthesis paper reflects on the current …

While landscape ecology is distinct from sustainability science, landscape ecologists have
expressed their ambitions to help society advance sustainability of landscapes. In this …

Understanding the effects of scale is essential to the understanding of natural ecosystems,
particularly in marine environments where sampling is more limited and sporadic than in …

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 …