Resilience in Complex Socioecological Systems. Advances in Ecological Research Volume 60

Table of Contents

1. Ecological Resilience James Bullock 2. Socio-economic Resilience in Agriculture Mette Termansen 3. Socio-ecological Resilience Laura Dee 4. Adaptive Capacity in Ecosystems David Angeler 5. Tales of Resilience from iDIV Cameron Wagg 6. Resilience / Robustness in Agro-ecology Emily Alice Martin

Authors

David Bohan Agricultural Ecologist, UMR 1347 Agroecologie, Dijon, France.

Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial 'waves' in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.

Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.
Alex Dumbrell University of Essex, UK.

Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.