Resilience, reactivity and variability: a mathematical comparison of ecological stability measures
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DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2015.10.012zbMATH Open1343.92532arXiv1510.07120OpenAlexW2964246055WikidataQ39283656 ScholiaQ39283656MaRDI QIDQ304729FDOQ304729
Authors: B. Haegeman, Jean-François Arnoldi, M. Loreau 
Publication date: 26 August 2016
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In theoretical studies, the most commonly used measure of ecological stability is resilience: ecosystems asymptotic rate of return to equilibrium after a pulse-perturbation or shock. A complementary notion of growing popularity is reactivity: the strongest initial response to shocks. On the other hand, empirical stability is often quantified as the inverse of temporal variability, directly estimated on data, and reflecting ecosystems response to persistent and erratic environmental disturbances. It is unclear whether and how this empirical measure is related to resilience and reactivity. Here, we establish a connection by introducing two variability-based stability measures belonging to the theoretical realm of resilience and reactivity. We call them intrinsic, stochastic and deterministic invariability; respectively defined as the inverse of the strongest stationary response to white-noise and to single-frequency perturbations. We prove that they predict ecosystems worst response to broad classes of disturbances, including realistic models of environmental fluctuations. We show that they are intermediate measures between resilience and reactivity and that, although defined with respect to persistent perturbations, they can be related to the whole transient regime following a shock, making them more integrative notions than reactivity and resilience. We argue that invariability measures constitute a stepping stone, and discuss the challenges ahead to further unify theoretical and empirical approaches to stability.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07120
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