Why is environmental stewardship important? How do endangered species affect the ecosystem? What are the benefits of biodiversity to the environment? What affects the resilience of an ecological community? How are ecosystem services affected by human impact?
We propose that a healthy ecosystem is one that is sustainable – that is, it has the ability to maintain its structure (organization) and function (vigor) over time in the face of external stress (resilience). Various methods to quantify these three ecosystem attributes (vigor, organization, ...
Components of cyber resilience Cybersecurity Cybersecurity is essential to a cyber resilience strategy. Cybersecurity teams, together with robust tools and policies, help to protect an organization's IT ecosystem—network, hardware, and data—through monitoring, detecting, defending against, and respondin...
What is the ecological species concept? What is ecological resilience? What is ecological information? What is community ecology? What is pollution of habitat? What is soil ecology? What is ecological monitoring? What is ecological tourism? What is ecological security? What is ecological health? Wh...
Determining whether ecosystems retain their structure and function through intensifying disturbance regimes is an urgent task. However, quantitatively assessing the resilience of natural systems is a complex and challenging endeavor, especially for animal communities, for which datasets around disturbance ...
Environmental stability pertains to maintaining ecological functions, whereas strength refers to the resilience of these systems against environmental disturbances. 8 How is strength measured in materials? Strength in materials is typically measured by stress tests to determine the maximum load they can wit...
Resilience is the magnitude of disturbance that can be tolerated before a socioecological system (SES) moves to a different region of state space controlled by a different set of processes. Resilience has multiple levels of meaning: as a metaphor related to sustainability, as a property of dynami...
Companies must document the risks posed by various sustainability matters, such as climate change and fossil fuel dependence. This includes detailing the resilience of their business model to these risks and the potential impact on stakeholders, shareholders, business operations, and financial results. ...
The CHIPS Act: What it means for the semiconductor ecosystem Now that the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 is law, semiconductor companies are evaluating how — and whether — to pursue a piece of the $52.7 billion in federal subsidies allocated to support chip manufacturing. The bipartisan ...
Balancing loops are comprised of elements in some form of harmony, such as the relative abundance of predators and prey in an ecosystem. Systems mapping This is one of the key tools in a system thinker’s arsenal. There are many ways to map a system, including behavior-over-time graphs, ...