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DOI	10.1111/ele.12648
	Navigating the complexity of ecological stability
	Donohue I.; Hillebrand H.; Montoya J.M.; Petchey O.L.; Pimm S.L.; Fowler M.S.; Healy K.; Jackson A.L.; Lurgi M.; McClean D.; O'Connor N.E.; O'Gorman E.J.; Yang Q.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	1461-023X
EISSN	1461-0248
卷号	19 期号:9
英文摘要	Human actions challenge nature in many ways. Ecological responses are ineluctably complex, demanding measures that describe them succinctly. Collectively, these measures encapsulate the overall 'stability' of the system. Many international bodies, including the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, broadly aspire to maintain or enhance ecological stability. Such bodies frequently use terms pertaining to stability that lack clear definition. Consequently, we cannot measure them and so they disconnect from a large body of theoretical and empirical understanding. We assess the scientific and policy literature and show that this disconnect is one consequence of an inconsistent and one-dimensional approach that ecologists have taken to both disturbances and stability. This has led to confused communication of the nature of stability and the level of our insight into it. Disturbances and stability are multidimensional. Our understanding of them is not. We have a remarkably poor understanding of the impacts on stability of the characteristics that define many, perhaps all, of the most important elements of global change. We provide recommendations for theoreticians, empiricists and policymakers on how to better integrate the multidimensional nature of ecological stability into their research, policies and actions. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS.
英文关键词	Conservation; disturbance; extinction; invasion; persistence; policy; resilience; resistance; sustainability; variability
学科领域	biodiversity; biological invasion; complexity; conservation planning; ecological stability; ecosystem resilience; environmental disturbance; environmental policy; extinction risk; global change; human activity; intergovernmental relations; nature conservation; persistence; policy making; research work; sustainability; biodiversity; ecology; ecosystem; environmental protection; nomenclature; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecology; Ecosystem; Terminology as Topic
语种	英语
scopus关键词	biodiversity; biological invasion; complexity; conservation planning; ecological stability; ecosystem resilience; environmental disturbance; environmental policy; extinction risk; global change; human activity; intergovernmental relations; nature conservation; persistence; policy making; research work; sustainability; biodiversity; ecology; ecosystem; environmental protection; nomenclature; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecology; Ecosystem; Terminology as Topic
来源期刊	Ecology letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118502
作者单位	School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Ireland; Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Ireland; Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Germany; Theoretical and Experimental Ecological Station, CNRS, UPS, Moulis, France, France; Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, United States; Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Wales, UK, United Kingdom; Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Donohue I.,Hillebrand H.,Montoya J.M.,et al. Navigating the complexity of ecological stability[J],2016,19(9).
APA	Donohue I..,Hillebrand H..,Montoya J.M..,Petchey O.L..,Pimm S.L..,...&Yang Q..(2016).Navigating the complexity of ecological stability.Ecology letters,19(9).
MLA	Donohue I.,et al."Navigating the complexity of ecological stability".Ecology letters 19.9(2016).