Ecosystem antifragility: beyond integrity and resilience

PeerJ

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Miguel Equihua¹  Mariana Espinosa Aldama²  Carlos Gershenson³  Oliver López-Corona¹  Mariana Munguía⁷  Octavio Pérez-Maqueo¹  Elvia Ramírez-Carrillo⁸ 

[1] Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología A.C.;Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades;IIMAS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México;Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad ,(C3), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México;ITMO University;Cátedras CONACyT;Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad;Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

关键词: Antifragility;    Ecosystem integrity;    Resilience;    Complexity;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.8533

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

We review the concept of ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach. We summarize the literature on the subject identifying three main narratives: ecosystem properties that enable them to be more resilient; ecosystem response to perturbations; and complexity. We also include original ideas with theoretical and quantitative developments with application examples. The main contribution is a new way to rethink resilience, that is mathematically formal and easy to evaluate heuristically in real-world applications: ecosystem antifragility. An ecosystem is antifragile if it benefits from environmental variability. Antifragility therefore goes beyond robustness or resilience because while resilient/robust systems are merely perturbation-resistant, antifragile structures not only withstand stress but also benefit from it.

【 授权许可】

CC BY