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- Cantwell-Jones, Aoife, et al.
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Mapping trait versus species turnover reveals spatiotemporal variation in functional redundancy and network robustness in a plant-pollinator community
- 2023
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Ingår i: Functional Ecology. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0269-8463 .- 1365-2435. ; 37:3, s. 748-762
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Functional overlap among species (redundancy) is considered important in shaping competitive and mutualistic interactions that determine how communities respond to environmental change. Most studies view functional redundancy as static, yet traits within species—which ultimately shape functional redundancy—can vary over seasonal or spatial gradients. We therefore have limited understanding of how trait turnover within and between species could lead to changes in functional redundancy or how loss of traits could differentially impact mutualistic interactions depending on where and when the interactions occur in space and time. Using an Arctic bumblebee community as a case study, and 1277 individual measures from 14 species over three annual seasons, we quantified how inter- and intraspecific body-size turnover compared to species turnover with elevation and over the season. Coupling every individual and their trait with a plant visitation, we investigated how grouping individuals by a morphological trait or by species identity altered our assessment of network structure and how this differed in space and time. Finally, we tested how the sensitivity of the network in space and time differed when simulating extinction of nodes representing either morphological trait similarity or traditional species groups. This allowed us to explore the degree to which trait-based groups increase or decrease interaction redundancy relative to species-based nodes. We found that (i) groups of taxonomically and morphologically similar bees turn over in space and time independently from each other, with trait turnover being larger over the season; (ii) networks composed of nodes representing species versus morphologically similar bees were structured differently; and (iii) simulated loss of bee trait groups caused faster coextinction of bumblebee species and flowering plants than when bee taxonomic groups were lost. Crucially, the magnitude of these effects varied in space and time, highlighting the importance of considering spatiotemporal context when studying the relative importance of taxonomic and trait contributions to interaction network architecture. Our finding that functional redundancy varies spatiotemporally demonstrates how considering the traits of individuals within networks is needed to understand the impacts of environmental variation and extinction on ecosystem functioning and resilience. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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- Enqvist, Johan Pecanha, et al.
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Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research : Linking care, knowledge and agency
- 2018
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Ingår i: Landscape and Urban Planning. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 179, s. 17-37
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current sustainability challenges - including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept of stewardship is increasingly used in research, policy and practice to articulate and describe responses to these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings and framings of stewardship across this wide user base that reflect different disciplinary purposes, assumptions and expertise, as well as a long history of use in both academic and lay contexts. Stewardship may therefore be considered a 'boundary object'; that is, a conceptual tool that enables collaboration and dialogue between different actors whilst allowing for differences in use and perception. This paper seeks to map out the multiple meanings of stewardship in the literature and help researchers and practitioners to navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with using the term. We provide the first qualitative systematic review of stewardship, and identify four distinct meanings of the concept in the literature: Ethic, Motivation, Action and Outcome. We then develop a novel framework for thinking through and connecting these multiple meanings, centered around three dimensions: care, knowledge and agency. This framework is used to identify the care dimension and relational approaches as important areas for future stewardship research. In these efforts - and for scholars engaging with the stewardship concept more broadly - this paper can act as a helpful 'centering device', connecting practitioners, policy-makers and researchers from multiple disciplines in pursuit of sustainability.
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- Folke, Carl, et al.
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The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: ten years later
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Ingår i: Ecology and Society. - 1708-3087. ; 12:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problem of fit is about the interplay between the human and ecosystem dimensions in social-ecological systems that are not just linked but truly integrated. This interplay takes place across temporal and spatial scales and institutional and organizational levels in systems that are increasingly being interpreted as complex adaptive systems. In 1997, we were invited to produce one of three background papers related to a, at that time, new initiative called Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDEG), a research activity of the International Human Dimensions Program of Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The paper, which exists as a discussion paper of the IHDP, has generated considerable interest. Here we publish the original paper 10 years later with an extended introduction and with reflections on some of the issues raised in the original paper concerning problems of fit.
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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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What about nature?
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Ingår i: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. - 0348-3991. ; , s. 14-20
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- Lilja, Johan, 1978-, et al.
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How Quality Management Needs Emergence for Engaging Agenda 2030 : As “improving” increasingly means getting a complex system to take transformative steps towards sustainability and flourishing
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose If not now, when? The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are getting increasing attention, and there is an acknowledgement that the challenges ahead, as well as the solutions needed, often are complex. In contrast, the historical strengths of Quality Management (QM) have been in situations when cause-effect relations can be analyzed and understood, when technical expertise can provide the answer, where the application of “best practice” is helpful, where order is a virtue. When dealing with complexity, leaders who are tempted to impose this kind of command-and-control style will often fail. Success rather comes from setting the stage, stepping back a bit, allowing patterns to emerge, curiously tracking what takes place, spreading what is being learned, and scaling up success. Such a leadership and practice has been referred to as the fourth and called for “Emergence Paradigm” of QM. The purpose of this paper is to contribute with knowledge concerning how the Emergence Paradigm of QM comes into play when getting organizations and the world to take action on Agenda 2030. Methodology/Approach The paper is based on dialogic action research and presents the case and emergent process of 60 Swedish authorities getting to collective action on Agenda 2030. Findings The paper highlights how QM may contribute to realizing the Agenda 2030 by dynamically combining the strengths of the past paradigms with new practices and mind-sets related to complexity and emergence. Value of the paper The paper provides new insights that may help to take the bold and transformative steps urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path.
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- Lilja, Johan, 1978-, et al.
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How Quality Management Needs Emergence for Engaging the 2030 Agenda
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Ingår i: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Quality, Sustainability and Innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution : Quality and Service Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Sustainability and Value Co-creation. - London : World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd. - 9789811230349 - 9789811230363 - 9789811230356 ; , s. 259-294
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- “If not now, when?” The UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are gaining increasing attention, and there is wide acknowledge-ment that the challenges ahead, as well as the solutions needed, are often complex. In contrast, the historical strength of Quality Management (QM) lies in situations when the cause–effect relations can be analysed and understood, when technical expertise can provide the answer, where the application of “best practice” is helpful, and where order is a virtue. When dealing with complexity, leaders who tend to impose this kind of command-and-control style will often fail. Success, rather than this, comes from setting the stage, stepping back a bit, allowing patterns to emerge, curiously tracking what takes place, spreading what was learned, and scaling up success. Such aleadership and practice has been referred to as the fourth and called for “Emergence Paradigm” of QM. The purpose of this paper is to contribute with knowledge about how the Emergence Paradigm of QM comes into play when getting organisations and the world to take action on the 2030 Agenda. This paper is conceptual but includes experiences from dialogic action research in an emergent process of 60 Swedish authorities getting into collective action on the 2030 Agenda. As a result, the paper highlights how QM may contribute to realising the 2030 Agenda by dynamically combining the strengths of the past QM paradigms with new practices and mindsets related to complexity and emergence. It also provides new insights that may help when applying QM to take the bold and transformative steps urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path.
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