Quantifying spatial resilience

CR Allen, DG Angeler, GS Cumming… - Journal of Applied …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic stressors affect the ecosystems upon which humanity relies. In some cases
when resilience is exceeded, relatively small linear changes in stressors can cause …

Operationalizing ecological resilience concepts for managing species and ecosystems at risk

JC Chambers, CR Allen, SA Cushman - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
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 …

Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions?

MJ Cohen, IF Creed, L Alexander, NB Basu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs), those surrounded by uplands, exchange
materials, energy, and organisms with other elements in hydrological and habitat networks …

Protected areas as social‐ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social‐ecological systems theory

GS Cumming, CR Allen - Ecological applications, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource
management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics …

Connectivity of streams and wetlands to downstream waters: an integrated systems framework

SG Leibowitz, PJ Wigington Jr… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interest in connectivity has increased in the aquatic sciences, partly because of its relevance
to the Clean Water Act. This paper has two objectives:(1) provide a framework to understand …

Enhancing protection for vulnerable waters

IF Creed, CR Lane, JN Serran, LC Alexander… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Governments worldwide do not adequately protect their limited freshwater systems and
therefore place freshwater functions and attendant ecosystem services at risk. The best …

Vulnerable waters are essential to watershed resilience

CR Lane, IF Creed, HE Golden, SG Leibowitz… - Ecosystems, 2023‏ - Springer
Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state
while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorganizing after hydrological (for example …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the importance of dynamic landscape connectivity

KA Zeller, R Lewison, RJ Fletcher Jr, MG Tulbure… - Land, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the
negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a …

Depressional wetlands affect watershed hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological functions

GR Evenson, HE Golden, CR Lane… - Ecological …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Depressional wetlands of the extensive US and Canadian Prairie Pothole Region afford
numerous ecosystem processes that maintain healthy watershed functioning. However …

Hydrological, physical, and chemical functions and connectivity of non‐floodplain wetlands to downstream waters: A review

CR Lane, SG Leibowitz, BC Autrey… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
We reviewed the scientific literature on non‐floodplain wetlands (NFWs), freshwater
wetlands typically located distal to riparian and floodplain systems, to determine …