Building a Better Understanding of "Resilience"
BioScience Talks28 Touko 2019

Building a Better Understanding of "Resilience"

The concept of resilience is an important one in conservation science and resource management. However, the term itself is often poorly understood, or understood differently by different parties, with potentially troublesome effects for land managers, researchers, and others.

Writing in BioScience, Dr. Phillip Higuera (University of Montana), Dr. Alex Metcalf (University of Montana), and their colleagues suggest that a more holistic framework would consider the crucial human element of social-ecological systems. By doing so, managers could work toward outcomes that best fit the ecological needs and human priorities inherent in the system. The work they describe here is focused on fire-prone landscapes, but the approach is broadly applicable across a range of systems.

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Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration

Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration

The integration of data from two or more domains is required for addressing many fundamental scientific questions and understanding how to mitigate challenges affecting humanity and our planet. In Mar...

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Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty

Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty

Eighty-one percent of US science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) university faculty members are men. The relative dearth of women in the field is a long-recognized problem—but it's one that ...

11 Marras 201517min

Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems

Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems

"Forest restoration" is a common conservation theme, often promoted as a means of repairing degraded landscapes and boosting carbon storage. But when the planting areas are poorly chosen, these initia...

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Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon

Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon

Human-caused fires have the potential to hugely alter tropical forests—and the world at large. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Balch, of the University of Colorado–Boulder. She discusses a lo...

9 Syys 201520min

Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere

Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere

Extracellular vesicles (EVs; article here) are one of the biggest stories in biology. These tiny "packets" are released by cells and constitute a previously misunderstood means of intracellular commun...

12 Elo 201521min

Episode #2: Transgenic Fish on the Loose?

Episode #2: Transgenic Fish on the Loose?

Fast-growing transgenic salmonids are currently being developed for eventual human consumption. Dr. Robert Devlin and his team seek to evaluate the ecological threats posed by these GMO fish. In this ...

8 Heinä 201521min

BioScience Talks Episode #1: Coupled Human and Natural Systems

BioScience Talks Episode #1: Coupled Human and Natural Systems

In our first episode, we discuss the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) with Dr. Jiquan Chen, of Michigan State University, who studies CHANS on the Mongolian Plateau. The CHANS conc...

10 Kesä 201522min

Preview of BioScience Talks Episode 1

Preview of BioScience Talks Episode 1

This episode previews BioScience Talks' upcoming first episode on coupled human and natural systems, to be released on 10 June. Stay tuned!

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