Table 1 Four community trajectories used in this study and their corresponding concepts of ecological resilience as quantitatively identified by Bagchi et al. (2017)5.
Community trajectory | Description | Corresponding concepts of ecological resilience |
|---|---|---|
Linear | Slow, incremental change with time | Nonequilibrium, phase shift |
Reversible | Major changes, with return to original state | Engineering resilience |
Stable | No appreciable change over time | Resistance, or asymptotic state |
Abrupt | Relatively sudden change | State transition, threshold, regime shift, tipping point |
