Fig. 7. The impact of spatial scale on resilience: (A) a system with both relatively high value and high resilience converts to (B) when a loss of system functionality on a landscape or regional scale reduces its resilience. Because of the low resilience of (B), there is considerable likelihood of transition to alternative stable state (C), which has low value but high resilience. Dark patches denote areas adversely influenced by human impacts.

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