Humans may have been damaging coral reefs for centuries, said John Bruno, a Marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved in the study.
“TO BOUNCE without breaking. ” That is how one ecologist defined “resilience” in Aaron Wildavsky's classic treatise on risk, “Searching for Safety”.
Similarly, ecology (the study of natural systems) specialises in abundance, and it can be useful to look at what's happening in the media through the eyes of an ecologist.
