Table 4.

Types of responses to negative environmental changes among managers, and their sensitivity to changes in ecological processes. Sensitivity levels (SL) and tolerance thresholds are indicated for the cluster medoids, i.e. those data points that best represent the cluster

Type	Percent of respondents (%)	Sensitivity to changes in			Description
		Growth	Disturbance	Regeneration
Early adapters	27.7	SL:3 (high: adapt if changes >20 %)	SL:3 (high: adapt if frequency changes >twofold)	SL:3 (high: adapt if changes >25 %)	Early adapters are sensitive to changes in all three ecological processes. They are equally sensitive to changes in growth, disturbance, and regeneration
Controllers	46.7	SL:3 (high: adapt if changes >20 %)	SL:2 (moderate: adapt if frequency changes >fivefold)	SL:3 (high: adapt if changes >25 %)	Controllers are sensitive to changes in growth and regeneration processes (i.e. those processes they can influence fairly directly through management), but are less sensitive to changes in disturbance processes (often perceived as force majeure and beyond the influence of management)
Nurturers	11.2	SL:0 (none: not sensitive to growth changes)	SL:1 (low: adapt if frequency changes >tenfold	SL:3 (high: adapt if changes >25 %)	Nurturers are mainly sensitive to changes in regeneration processes, but do not react at all to changes in growth, and only to very drastic changes in disturbance regimes
Non-adapters	14.4	SL:0 (none: not sensitive to growth changes)	SL:0 (none: not sensitive to disturbance changes)	SL:0 (none: not sensitive to regeneration changes)	Non-adapters do not respond to changes in growth, disturbance, and regeneration processes in their management