Towards a Comparative Framework of Demographic Resilience

The global biodiversity crisis demands a broad understanding of the ability of species to respond to external disturbances caused by global change.A common framework to quantify, compare, contrast, and predict the resilience of species to global change is urgently needed.Resilience includes the resistance of populations to change after disturbance and their recovery from it.Measurements of short-term population growth following disturbances, and...