Table 1.

Key concepts and terms as used in special feature articles

Key concept	Definition	Special Feature Article
Dynamic systems	“A theoretical framework that is used to understand and predict self-organizing phenomena in complex systems that are constantly changing, reorganizing, and progressing over time” (19)	This paper
Resilient landscape	A landscape that sustains “biodiversity and ecological functions over time in the face of climate change and other anthropogenic and natural stressors” (20)	(21)
Ecosystem connectivity	The capacity of habitat configuration to allow the “unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on Earth” (22)	(21)
Ecological restoration	The process of reinstating communities to support ecosystem functioning and services, ecosystem connectivity, and biodiversity (23, 24)	(25)
Functional diversity	The “number, type and distribution of functions performed by organisms within an ecosystem” (26)	(27)
Functional trait	A “measurable property of organisms … that strongly influences organismal performance” (28, 29)	(27, 30, 31, 32)
Climate fidelity	The ability of a taxon to shift its range to track their realized climatic niche as climate changes (33)	(33)
Functional redundancy	The relative number of organisms that “occupy the same functional space” within an ecosystem (34)	(27, 30)
Ecometrics	“The study of the distribution of functional traits within and between communities in relation to environment”	(31, 32)
Effect size	A statistical estimate of “the magnitude of an effect” or the “biological importance of the effect” (35)	(36)
Socioecological gap	A geospatial representation that “includes both threat and resource components to determine if existing capacities are sufficient to promote stable geographic ranges” (37)	(37)