The complexity and stability of ecosystems¶
Pimm, S. L. (1984). The complexity and stability of ecosystems. Nature, 307(5949), 321-326.
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- Resilience
- Each standard implies different design trade-offs and measurement approaches. Absorbing capacity. The system has capacity to absorb disturbance without immediate regime change — buffers, redundancy, slack, structural robustness, as Pimm (1984) analyzes in his treatment of complexity and stability in ecosystems
This sourceDecomposes ecological stability into resilience, persistence, resistance, and variability; analyzes how diversity, complexity, and absorbing capacity shape recovery from perturbation.
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Pimm's abstract is about complexity and stability in ecosystems, but it says nothing of absorbing capacity, buffers, redundancy or slack.
“Early studies suggested that simple ecosystems were less stable than complex ones, but later studies came to the opposite conclusion. Confusion arose because of the many different meanings of ‘complexity’ and ‘stability’. Most of the possible questions about the relationship between stability–complexity have not been asked.”
- Each standard implies different design trade-offs and measurement approaches. Absorbing capacity. The system has capacity to absorb disturbance without immediate regime change — buffers, redundancy, slack, structural robustness, as Pimm (1984) analyzes in his treatment of complexity and stability in ecosystems
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