Craig R. Allen is the leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln. In 2008 he published an edited volume with CS Holling, Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems
Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems.