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  2. Ecological resilience - Wikipedia

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    In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and subsequently recovering. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorms, insect population explosions, and human activities such as deforestation, fracking of the ground for oil extraction, pesticide sprayed in soil ...

  3. Resilience - Wikipedia

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    Resilience in art, the property of artwork to remain relevant over changing times; Resilience (organizational), the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function

  4. Ecological stability - Wikipedia

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    Resilience also expresses the need for persistence although from a management approach it is expressed to have a broad range of choices and events are to be looked at as uniformly distributed. [17] Elasticity and amplitude are measures of resilience. Elasticity is the speed with which a system returns to its original/previous state.

  5. Opinion: Where does resilience come from? - AOL

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    Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a disaster. Research into how recovery happens has shown that the most important factor in a resilient community is the level of what social ...

  6. Bioresilience - Wikipedia

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    The importance of resilience in biological systems has been widely recognized in terms of the impacts on life by anthropogenic changes. [1] Accelerating environmental change and continuing loss of genetic resources positions lower biodiversity around the planet threatening ecosystem services. A major mitigating factor will be life forms with ...

  7. Climate resilience - Wikipedia

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    Climate resilience is generally considered to be the ability to recover from, or to mitigate vulnerability to, climate-related shocks such as floods and droughts. [7] It is a political process that strengthens the ability of all to mitigate vulnerability to risks from, and adapt to changing patterns in, climate hazards and variability.

  8. Diversity of fish - Wikipedia

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    The venom results in severe pain, paralysis and tissue death, and can be fatal if not treated. Despite its formidable defenses, stonefish have predators. Some bottom feeding rays and sharks with crushing teeth feed on them, as does the Stokes's sea snake. [128] Lionfish: Head on view of the lionfish, a venomous coral reef fish (pictured). [129]

  9. Don't forget these underrated, overlooked pitchers in your ...

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    Lodolo is the SP67 in ECR, but he has top-20 starter upside. Go get him. Clarke Schmidt, New York Yankees. Schmidt is ranked down as the SP65 despite posting a 2.85 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP during his ...