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A Dynamic Resilience Perspective Toward Integrated Ecosystem Management: Biodiversity, Landscape, and Climate

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Ecosystems often show sudden and drastic shifts in their states following relatively small environmental changes, yet the environmental restoration does not necessarily easily recover the original state. The resilience theory has played a pivotal role in ecosystem management by providing a theoretical basis for such abrupt and irreversible phase transitions (i.e., regime shifts). However, a major concern remains that the existing theory considers ecosystem responses along only a single disturbance axis (e.g., eutrophication), despite the fact that natural ecosystems are subject to multiple anthropogenic disturbances. In this chapter, I introduce ontogenetic niche shifts (i.e., changes in resource use or predation vulnerability during individual growth) as a possible common mechanism of regime shifts. Based on this framework, I show how additional factors not accounted for the basic resilience theory (e.g., species extinction and invasion, habitat loss and fragmentation, and phenological shifts) may affect whether or where regime shifts occur along environmental gradients. I conclude that these results taken together illustrate the importance of interdisciplinary research integrating biodiversity conservation, landscape protection, and climate change adaptation for more effective management of lake ecosystems.

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I thank anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript. This research was supported by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists.

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  1. Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Japan

    Noboru Okuda & Shin-ichi Nakano

  2. Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Katsutoshi Watanabe

  3. Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Kayoko Fukumori

  4. Department of Life Sciences The College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Takefumi Nakazawa

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Okuda, N., Watanabe, K., Fukumori, K., Nakano, Si., Nakazawa, T. (2014). A Dynamic Resilience Perspective Toward Integrated Ecosystem Management: Biodiversity, Landscape, and Climate. In: Biodiversity in Aquatic Systems and Environments. SpringerBriefs in Biology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54150-9_4

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