Theory 71/Ecosystem/Functional redundancy
Resilience Needs Redundancy
The claim
Ecosystem resilience is set by the ratio of functional redundancy to stress, so a system with high redundancy tolerates more stress before function collapses.
01Mechanism
Function is maintained by whatever species can perform it; redundancy sets how many losses can be absorbed.
02Prediction
Collapse threshold should track the ratio.
03Refutation
Collapse tracking richness would remove redundancy.