Summary of Resiliency of Reclaimed Boreal Forest Landscapes Seminar

Résumé du livre

Ecological resilience, first defined by Holling in 1973, can be broadly described as the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly, but other authors have provided variations on this theme since 1973. Ecological resilience is one potential measure of the goal of a self-sustaining ecosystem and is being considered for inclusion in the Cumulative Environmental Management Association's Criteria and Indicators Framework for assessing reclamation success in oil sands mines. For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond to the same disturbances.