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Ecosystem antifragility: Beyond integrity and resilience

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1 Red ambiente y sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología A.C, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
2 Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, UAM-Cuajimalpa., cdmx, cdmx, Mexico
3 IIMAS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, cdmx, Mexico
4 Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, cdmx, cdmx, Mexico
5 ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia
6 Cátedras CONACyT, Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), cdmx, Mexico
7 Red ambiente y sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
8 Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), CDMX, Mexico
9 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, cdmx, Mexico
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27813v1
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Subject Areas
Ecology, Ecosystem Science, Mathematical Biology
Keywords
Antifragility, Ecosystem Integrity, Resilience, Complexity
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© 2019 Equihua Zamora et al.
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Equihua Zamora M, Espinosa M, Gershenson C, López-Corona O, Munguia M, Pérez-Maqueo O, Ramírez-Carrillo E. 2019. Ecosystem antifragility: Beyond integrity and resilience. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27813v1

Abstract

We review the concept of ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach. We summarize the literature on the subject identifying three main narratives: ecosystem properties that enable them to be more resilient; ecosystem response to perturbations; and complexity. We also include original ideas with theoretical and quantitative developments with application examples. The main contribution is a new way to rethink resilience, that is mathematically formal and easy to evaluate heuristically in real-world applications: ecosystem antifragility. An ecosystem is antifragile if it benefits from environmental variability. Antifragility therefore goes beyond robustness or resilience because while resilient/robust systems are merely perturbation-resistant, antifragile structures not only withstand stress but also benefit from it.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Miguel Equihua Zamora analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Mariana Espinosa analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Carlos Gershenson authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Oliver López-Corona conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Mariana Munguia prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Octavio Pérez-Maqueo prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Elvia Ramírez-Carrillo analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Fisher Information algorithm: https://github.com/csunlab/fisher-information

Metolius data: https://lpdaacsvc.cr.usgs.gov/appeears/

Funding

This work was supported by CONACyT fund M0037-2018-07, number 296842; C\'atedras CONACyT fellowship program (project number 30); Sistema Nacional de Investigadores SNI, numbers 62929. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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