| 复杂性 Complexity | 用于描述群落和网络的复杂程度, 通常用网络的连接度来表征
Describing the extent of complex a community (network), which measured as connectance |
| 抵抗力 Residence | 群落和互作网络免受外界干扰而保持原状的能力
The system return to its ecological regime after a perturbation in the state of the system |
| 恢复力 Resilience | 群落受到外界干扰后回到原来状态的能力 Return time to ecological regime after a perturbation |
| 持久性 Persistence | 物种在动态网络中持续存在的能力 Proportion of coexisting species at dynamic ecological network |
| 次生灭绝 Second extinction | 群落中某些物种的灭绝导致其他物种随之灭绝的情形 Loss of additional species after the extinction of one target species |
| 稳健性 Robustness | 生态群落或种间互作网络对物种的丧失导致次生灭绝的容忍度, 用灭绝曲线下的面积表示
Resistance of a community (network) against additional extinction after species elimination, measured as the area below the extinction curve |