Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 251-259

  Ingrisch, Johannes ^a   Bahn, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

disturbance impact; recovery rate; recovery time; resilience index; resilience metric; resistance

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INDEX METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 85042198306     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.013     Document Type: Review

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