1. FCE 4.2 Conceptual Diagram
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FCE 4.2 Conceptual Diagram
FCE conceptual diagram of the coastal social-ecological system describing the fate (∆) of regional carbon stocks as a function (⨏) of interactions among exogenous drivers, endogenous filters, and coastal ecosystem structure and function. The diagram shows how four FCE IV working groups (bold, italics) and four cross-cutting themes (bold) will be integrated to address three central questions (gray arrows).
Q1: How do non-stationary climate and emergent socio-cultural dynamics interact with endogenous factors (landscape bio-geomorphic gradients and institutional/infrastructural legacies) to produce the coastal hydrologic disturbance regime?
Q2: How do changes in the hydrologic regime and its endogenous drivers shape and respond to coastal ecosystem structure and function?
Q3: How do non-stationary exogenous, endogenous and ecological factors determine: (a) whether carbon stocks continue to develop (yellow line), stabilize (black line) or decline (red line), and (b) feedbacks to exogenous drivers and endogenous filters.
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