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 |