Antifragility: a useful concept for ecology and restoration?
- Elena Litchman,
- Jonas Wickman,
- Lars Brudvig,
- Christopher Klausmeier
Abstract
Understanding how ecological communities and ecosystems respond to
perturbations is a pressing research need in ecology. Currently, the
focus is largely on assessing resilience, which is often measured as the
speed with which a system returns to the initial state after a
disturbance, and robustness, which is measured by how much disturbance
it can withstand without losing its properties. However, many systems do
not return to an undisturbed state and experience continued
perturbations. Assessing a system's performance under perturbations is
thus needed. Antifragility, a concept that refers to systems performing
better under sustained perturbations than in their absence is one such
tool and could be a useful complement to resilience and robustness for
ecology and restoration.08 Aug 2024Submitted to Ecology Letters 09 Aug 2024Submission Checks Completed
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