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Managing for Resilience:

Resilience - initial definition

Definition

Salmon in definition- gives dimension to the problem, it gives a way on putting some spatial and temporal condition on our definition. Provides a window in the system

Ecosystem is resilient if it has the capacity or ability to continuously (adapt,self organize) in the face of multiple types of change such (self sustaining salmon populations are possible). This leads to ...

A salmon population is resilient if it has the capacity to continuously persist (to be viable) in the face of multiple types of stressors. (not consistent in group)

Resilience is a property of systems, the essence of which is the tendency to rapidly and completely return to a former characteristic state following disturbance.

Resilience is a property of systems, the essence of which has the capacity to adapt following disturbance.

the amount of change that the ecosystem can experience and still retain its capacity to support (1) self-sustaining salmon population(s) at characteristic levels of productivity, and (2) the ecological functions linked to the population(s) and productivity levels

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