Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social-ecological-technological systems?
Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social-ecological-technological systems?
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DOI：
10.1002/ehs2.1255
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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4.9
通讯作者：
Cadenasso, Mary L.
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作者：
Grimm, Nancy B.;Pickett, Steward T. A.;Cadenasso, Mary L.
干扰的生态学概念很少被应用于城市系统，除了一个错误但普遍的假设，即城市化本身就是一种干扰，因此城市是一个常年受干扰的系统。我们通过探索最近的干扰概念框架（Peters et al. 2011，Ecosphere，2，art 81）如何适用于这些社会生态技术系统（SETS）来评估这一概念在城市生态学中的有用性。案例研究，特别是从长期的生态研究站点的巴尔的摩和凤凰城，显示的适用性框架的干扰，这些系统的不同元素在不同的尺度。我们发现，该框架很容易适应城市SETS，并将社会和技术的驱动程序和响应者可以贡献额外的见解，城市系统以外的干扰研究。
The ecological concept of disturbance has scarcely been applied in urban systems except in the erroneous but commonplace assumption that urbanization itself is a disturbance and cities are therefore perennially disturbed systems. We evaluate the usefulness of the concept in urban ecology by exploring how a recent conceptual framework for disturbance (Peters et al. 2011, Ecosphere, 2, art 81) applies to these social-ecological-technological systems (SETS). Case studies, especially from the Long-Term Ecological Research sites of Baltimore and Phoenix, are presented to show the applicability of the framework for disturbances to different elements of these systems at different scales. We find that the framework is easily adapted to urban SETS and that incorporating social and technological drivers and responders can contribute additional insights to disturbance research beyond urban systems.