10.5061/DRYAD.CK7K104
Radchuk, Viktoriia
De Laender, Frederik
Sarmento Cabral, Juliano
Boulangeat, Isabelle
Crawford, Michael
Bohn, Friedrich
De Raedt, Jonathan
Scherer, Cedric
Svenning, Jens-Christian
Thonicke, Kirsten
Schurr, Frank M.
Grimm, Volker
Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Data from: The dimensionality of stability depends on disturbance type
Dryad
dataset
2020
community model
invariability
persistence
recovery
individual-based model
2020-02-08T00:00:00Z
2020-02-08T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13226
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Ecosystems respond in various ways to disturbances. Quantifying ecological
stability therefore requires inspecting multiple stability properties,
such as resistance, recovery, persistence, and invariability. Correlations
among these properties can reduce the dimensionality of stability,
simplifying the study of environmental effects on ecosystems. A key
question is how the kind of disturbance affects these correlations. We
here investigated the effect of three disturbance types (random,
species-specific, local) applied at four intensity levels, on the
dimensionality of stability at the population and community level. We used
previously parameterized models that represent five natural communities,
varying in species richness and the number of trophic levels. We found
that disturbance type but not intensity affected the dimensionality of
stability and only at the population level. The dimensionality of
stability also varied greatly among species and communities. Therefore,
studying stability cannot be simplified to using a single metric and
multi-dimensional assessments are still to be recommended.
Data_Radchuk_et_alThe data obtained by simulations with six different
community models, as described in the related publication. These data were
used in the analyses of the dimensionality of stability.