In the ecosystem there are multiple factors that trigger the generation of resilience, examples of which are interaction, empathy, respect, among others. Resistance affects the ecosystem because it tends not to generate changes, it slows down. Resilience affects the system because it transforms and generates changes.

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An ecosystem with a large number of species is more resilient against disturbances, because it has a greater overall biodiversity. This biodiversity enhances the overall sustainability and fitness of all organisms. Biologically diverse communities are also more likely to contain species that confer resilience to that ecosystem because as a community accumulates species, there is a higher chance of any one of them having traits that enable them to adapt to a changing environment. If an ecosystem has a diverse community of organisms, they are not all likely to be affected by a disturbance in the same way. So, if one species is nearly killed off, a functionally similar species can take its place, maintaining the function of the ecosystem as a whole. The “resistance-resilience framework” helps us understand ecological resilience and the role resistance plays. It's easy to confuse these two closely related concepts of ecosystem change: resistance is the ability to persist or withstand a disturbance, and resilience is the ability to recover once a disturbance ends. Much of ecological resistance and resilience in rangelands depends on the ability of the existing plants to survive, thrive, and grow while experiencing various disturbances. Examples of disturbances affecting plants directly include drought, herbivory, and wildfire. Some ecosystems are better at resisting change than others, and therefore have high resistance. Resilience is the ability and rate of an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance and return to its pre-disturbed state.Both resistance and resilience cause an ecosystem to remain relatively unchanged when confronted to a disturbance, but in the case of resistance alone no internal re-organization and succession change is involved. This can lead to collapse of the system when a disturbance threshold is exceeded. Ecosystems that are disturbed more frequently are resilient by nature and are more likely to return to their pre-disturbance composition and species interactions, therefore ongoing disturbance is an important part of protecting ecosystems.