1.2.17—Factors affecting resilience
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2026
- Objective
- 1.2.17
- Level
- HL
Diversity and Storage Buy Recovery Time
Diversity supplies alternative pathways, while larger storages buffer a disturbance; both can slow change and support resilience.
Compare the disturbance with storage size and available alternatives. A larger store reduces the proportional effect and often lengthens response time, but it does not prevent all change.
A diverse prairie with seed reserves can recover after drought better than a monoculture; a lake changes more slowly than a puddle after the same water loss.
The puddle; the loss is a larger fraction of its storage.
A larger storage buffers change; it does not make a system invulnerable.