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Quotation from Gunderson and Holling, eds. (2002), p 34. The authors also note that “in a sustainable ecosystem, the accumulated resources that determine ecological potential might be eroded, For further exploration of resilience in the cycle, Gunderson and Holling add it as a third axis—in addition to potential and connectedness—to create a three-dimensional diagram (ibid, p 41). See also Brian Walker, C. S. Holling, Stephen R. Carpenter, and Ann P. Kinzig, “Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social–ecological systems”, Ecology and Society, 9, 2, 2004, available at www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss2/art5/ . might partially leak away, but are only partially reduced. If they were completely or largely eliminated, recovery would be impossible, and the system would slip into a different, degraded state. Such a condition would occur, for example, if species critical in maintaining structure and function became extinct” (p 38).
