Global Change, Vulnerability, and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertain Future

Abstract

The Earth has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, wherein the footprints of human activity (e.g., eutrophication, acidification, climate change) may manifest in erosion of ecological resilience and consequential losses of ecosystem services. Ecological resilience is the ability of an ecological system to absorb disturbance without experiencing a catastrophic shift into an alternative regime. To allow the DoD to predict and adapt to ecological changes that may result in regime shifts and effect individual bases and the DoD as a wholes ability to carry out their missions, our objectives in this research were to develop models to detect ecological regime shifts in space and time and to develop metrics to quantify ecological resilience and adaptive capacity

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 24, 2019
Accession Number
AD1135401

Entities

People

  • Caleb P. Roberts
  • Craig Allen
  • David G. Angeler
  • Dirac Twidwell
  • Jessica L. Burnett

Organizations

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Birds
  • Cells
  • Change Detection
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Eutrophication
  • Forests
  • Geography
  • Habitats
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Oceanography
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Surveys
  • United States
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris