Pimm Stuart L, Donohue Ian, Montoya José M, Loreau Michel
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, USA.
School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Nat Sustain. 2019 Oct;2(10):895-897. doi: 10.1038/s41893-019-0399-7. Epub 2019 Oct 9.
"Sustainability", "resilience", and other terms group under the heading of "stability." Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterise changes in complex social and environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical measurements are essential to permit comparisons and so untangle underlying relationships.
“可持续性”“恢复力”以及其他术语都归在“稳定性”这一标题之下。它们的普遍存在表明,迫切需要描述复杂社会和环境系统中的变化。在众多令人眼花缭乱的术语中,实际测量对于进行比较从而理清潜在关系至关重要。