Population resilience to an extreme drought is influenced by habitat area and fragmentation in the local landscape

Most studies on the biological impact of climate change have focussed on incremental climate warming, rather than extreme events. Yet responses of species’ populations to climatic extremes may be one of the primary drivers of ecological change. We assess the resilience of individual populations in terms of their sensitivity to‐ and ability to recover from‐ environmental perturbation. We demonstrate the method using a model species, the ringlet...