Frequency shift |
Reduced variance at high frequencies guarantees an increase at low frequencies |
Long-term cycles may cross thresholds |
Change the safe operating space |
Reduced short-term variance changes boundaries of the safe operating space |
Critical thresholds may be crossed |
Missed information |
Variability reveals ecosystem behavior under different conditions |
Lost opportunity to learn |
Lost resilience indicators |
Higher variance near critical thresholds indicates loss of resilience |
Inability to detect change in resilience |
Lock-in of adaptive systems |
Without disturbance, adaptive systems become unresponsive to long-term change |
Ability to adapt to gradual long-term change is impaired |
Impaired hardiness to shocks |
Moderate stress promotes capacity to respond to stress |
Increased vulnerability to novel disturbance |