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. 2020 Feb 11;8:e8533. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8533

Table 3. Resilience measure found in the literature review and complementary papers.

Key Indicator Measure/proxy Requires Resilience Narrative
FI Fisher information Stability Time series More stable ecosystem are more resilient and according to Cabezas et al. (2005) for a system to be resilient, after a disturbance the FI values prior to it must be recovered Perturbations
Div Diversity Optional/use of resource space. Presence field data In general to greater diversity, greater resilience. But there are exceptions related to changes of composition and use of resources Properties
Co Network conectance Stability Knowing the networks and being able to quantify the intensity of the connections, Gustavson proposes ways to deal with the lack of information about it Increase in the number of connections dissipates the effect of variation in distribution of species and enhances stability species Properties
Omn Presence of omnivore species Communication between different scales Presence of omnivore species Presence of omnivore species enhance stability and resilience Properties
NC Network criticality Balance between robustness (strong Interactions) and adaptability (Weak Interactions). Knowing the networks and being able to quantify the intensity of the connections, Gustavson proposes ways to deal with the lack of information about it Observations show that ecosystems are more resilient when there is a good balance between the number of strong and weak connections Properties
L-VC Lotka–Volterra Coefficients Given a community matrix, if all the real parts of its
eigenvalues are negative the ecosystem is stable
Community matrix More stable ecosystem are more resilient Complexity
As Ascendency Mean mutual information Given a network of interactions (i.e., trophic network) it measures how well, on average, the network articulates a flow event between any two nodes Capture in a single index the ability of an ecosystem to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size Properties
Lévy Lévy flights Scaling coefficient of foraging patterns for key species such as puma or jaguar It is a proxy of resources spatial complexity It has been shown that Lévy flights foraging patterns are related and enhance ecosystems resilience Complexity
Frac Fractality Spatial complexity High resolution satellite images More complex ecosystems should be more resilient. Complexity
AF Antifragility Change in the complexity of a biotic (i.e., trophic) network, in the face of disturbances Network of interactions, can be a Boolean network of co-occurrences of a key species such as puma or jaguar with its prey for example Resilience would be an intermediate state between fragility and antifragility Perturbations
H Homeostasis System homeostasis Time series Equivalent of resilience Complexity