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Integrating resilience with functional ecosystem measures: A novel paradigm for management decisions under multiple‐stressor interplay in freshwater ecosystems
Author(s) -
Jaiswal Deepa,
Pandey Usha,
Mishra Vibha,
Pandey Jitendra
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global change biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.146
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1365-2486
pISSN - 1354-1013
DOI - 10.1111/gcb.15662
Subject(s) - ecosystem , environmental resource management , disturbance (geology) , context (archaeology) , ecosystem management , climate change , environmental science , ecology , psychological resilience , adaptive management , ecosystem services , freshwater ecosystem , regime shift , resilience (materials science) , ecosystem based management , temporal scales , geography , biology , psychology , paleontology , physics , archaeology , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
Moving beyond monitoring the state of water quality to understanding how the sensitive ecosystems “respond” to complex interplay of climatic and anthropogenic perturbations, and eventually the mechanisms that underpin alterations leading to transitional shifts is crucial for managing freshwater resources. The multiple disturbance dynamics—a single disturbance as opposed to multiple disturbances for recovery and other atrocities—alter aquatic ecosystem in multiple ways, yet the global models lack representation of key processes and feedbacks, impeding potential management decisions. Here, the procedure we have embarked for what is known about the biogeochemical and ecological functions in freshwaters in context of ecosystem resilience, feedbacks, stressors synergies, and compensatory dynamics, is highly relevant for process‐based ecosystem models and for developing a novel paradigm toward potential management decisions. This review advocates the need for a more aggressive approach with improved understanding of changes in key ecosystem processes and mechanistic links thereof, regulating resilience and compensatory dynamics concordant with climate and anthropogenic perturbations across a wide range of spatio‐temporal scales. This has relevance contexting climate change and anthropogenic pressures for developing proactive and adaptive management strategies for safeguarding freshwater resources and services they provide.