community-resilience
Community resilience in plant science refers to the capacity of plant communities to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disturbances such as drought, disease, invasive species, or climate shifts. Understanding how plant communities maintain stability and function under stress is critical for predicting ecosystem responses to environmental change and for developing conservation and restoration strategies that preserve biodiversity and ecological services.
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This study examined why urban flooding keeps worsening in Iwo, Nigeria, finding that residents' awareness of flood risks and community behaviors are as important as physical infrastructure in determining flood vulnerability.
Flood risk awareness was most strongly linked to prior training on flood risk reduction (factor loading 0.919) and knowledge of household preventive measures (0.924).
Three resilience pathways were identified: engineering/structural interventions explained 31.3% of variance, institutional measures 26.2%, and ecological/environmental strategies 16.8% — together accounting for 74.3% of total variance.
Community perceptions clustered around five drivers of flooding, with poor drainage infrastructure scoring highest (0.876), followed by inadequate emergency response (0.851).