Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem's ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is … often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services …, resilience insures risk-averse ecosystem users against potential welfare losses. Using a general and stringent definition of …

to inherent problems in global land cover surveys, but diverging definitions of the ecosystem 'wetlands' (especially in … use' of wetlands that maintains the basic features of the ecosystem. The significance of wetlands for the global carbon …