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The resilience of an ecosystem is its capacity to absorb environmental changes (pressures or stresses, like slow changes in temperatures) and resist to disturbances (pulses, like forest fires or diseases) without changing its functions. Note that in its ecological sense, this does not mean that the ecosystem remains the exact same; but rather that it conserves its functions, like its production and recycling of biomass, its carbon storage, and so on.
