A5083766025- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
2015-2024
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2016-2023
Deakin University
2022-2023
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2023
Emory University
2022
Ecological Society of America
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
IFC Research (United Kingdom)
2018
Hudson Institute
2018
United States Geological Survey
2016
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental that has the capacity respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative actively shift degraded SESs alternative, more desirable, or functional regimes by altering structures processes define system. rooted ecological theories explain cross-scale dynamics complex systems, as well social change, innovation, technological transformation. Similar...
The biosphere is under unprecedented pressure, reflected in rapid changes our global ecological, social, technological and economic systems. In many cases, ecological social systems can adapt to these over time, but when a critical threshold surpassed, system stress undergo catastrophic change reorganize into different state. concept of resilience, introduced more than 40 years ago the sciences, captures behaviour that occur alternative states. original definition resilience forwarded by...
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area worldwide but harbour high levels of biodiversity contribute disproportionately ecosystem services. differ with respect their general type (e.g. land‐locked, drainage, floodplain large lakes) position in landscape highland versus lowland lakes), which dynamics these systems. should be generally viewed as ‘meta‐systems’,...
Summary Anthropogenic stressors affect the ecosystems upon which humanity relies. In some cases when resilience is exceeded, relatively small linear changes in can cause abrupt and nonlinear ecosystems. Ecological regime shifts occur exceeded enter a new local equilibrium that differs its structure function from previous state. resilience, amount of disturbance system withstand before it into an alternative stability domain, important framework for understanding managing ecological systems...
Abstract The hypotheses that beta diversity should increase with decreasing latitude and spatial extent of a region have rarely been tested based on comparative analysis multiple datasets, no such study has focused stream insects. We first assessed how well variability in insect metacommunities is predicted by group, latitude, extent, altitudinal range, dataset properties across drainage basins throughout the world. Second, we relative roles environmental factors driving variation assemblage...
Owing to a long history of anthropogenic pressures, freshwater ecosystems are among the most vulnerable biodiversity loss
The current ecosystem paradigm in limnology is represented by the cold temperate, stratifying lake and single-channelled river. However, variety of inland water ecosystems much higher, so ecological complexity many them. Most Mediterranean limnosystems are quite distinct from contemporary limnological paradigm. This overview will deal with striking exciting differences between other temperate limnosystems. For example, most very small, their catchment area larger than size, they experience...
Summary Current ecological frameworks emphasize the relative importance of local and regional drivers for structuring species communities. However, most research has been carried out in systems with discrete habitat boundaries a clear insular structure. Stream networks deviate from structure can serve as excellent model studying hierarchical community dynamics over different temporal spatial extents. We used benthic invertebrate data streams small northern S wedish catchment to test whether...
Ecological structures and processes occur at specific spatiotemporal scales, interactions that across multiple scales mediate scale-specific (e.g., individual, community, local, or regional) responses to disturbance. Despite the importance of scale, explicitly incorporating a multi-scale perspective into research management actions remains challenge. The discontinuity hypothesis provides fertile avenue for addressing this problem by linking measureable proxies inherent structure within...
Abstract Aim Assessing long‐term (1992–2009) trends of littoral invertebrate and phytoplankton metacommunities in boreal lakes with emphasis on separating the nestedness turnover components beta diversity. Deriving implications for regional biodiversity conservation management, based a data‐intensive approach high ecological realism. Location S weden ( N orthern E urope). Methods A recently published method was used to partition diversity into species components. Regression analyses were...
Quantitative approaches to measure and assess resilience are needed bridge gaps between science, policy management. In this paper, we revisit definitions of suggest a quantitative framework for assessing ecological sensu Holling (1973). Ecological as an emergent ecosystem phenomenon can be decomposed into complementary attributes (scales, adaptive capacity, thresholds alternative regimes) that embrace the complexity inherent ecosystems. Quantifying these simultaneously provides opportunities...
Production ecosystems typically have a high dependence on supporting and regulating ecosystem services while they thus far managed to sustain production, this has often been at the cost of externalities imposed other systems locations. One largest challenges facing humanity is secure production food fiber avoiding long‐term negative impacts range that provide. Resilience used as framework for understanding sustainability in types, but not systematically applied across specifically...
Freshwater ecosystems are important for global biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. There is consensus in the scientific literature that freshwater vulnerable to impacts of environmental change, which may trigger irreversible regime shifts upon services be lost. profound uncertainties regarding management assessment vulnerability change. Quantitative approaches needed reduce this uncertainty. We describe available statistical modeling along with case studies demonstrate how...
Over the past several decades, environmental governance has made substantial progress in addressing change, but emerging problems require new innovations law, policy, and governance. While expansive legal reform is unlikely to occur soon, there untapped potential existing laws address both by leveraging adaptive transformative capacities within law itself enhance social-ecological resilience using those allow systems adapt transform. Legal policy research date largely overlooked this...
Globalization has led to the introduction of thousands alien species worldwide. With growing impacts by invasive species, understanding invasion process remains critical for predicting adverse effects and informing efficient management. Theoretically, dynamics have been assumed follow an "invasion curve" (S-shaped curve available area invaded over time), but this dynamic lacked empirical testing using large-scale data neglects consider invader abundances. We propose "impact describing...
Stream assemblages are structured by a combination of local (environmental filtering and biotic interactions) regional factors (e.g., dispersal related processes). The relative importance environmental spatial (i.e., regional) structuring stream has been frequently assessed in previous large-scale studies, but predictors (potentially reflecting have rarely included. Diatoms may be useful for studying the effect trophic interactions on community structure since: (1) majority experimental...