%0 Journal Article %J PeerJ %D 2020 %T Ecosystem antifragility: beyond integrity and resilience %A Equihua, Miguel %A Espinosa Aldama, Mariana %A Gershenson, Carlos %A López-Corona, Oliver %A Munguía, Mariana %A Pérez-Maqueo, Octavio %A Ramírez-Carrillo, Elvia %K Antifragility %K Complexity %K Ecosystem integrity %K Resilience %X We review the concept of ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach. We summarize the literature on the subject identifying three main narratives: ecosystem properties that enable them to be more resilient; ecosystem response to perturbations; and complexity. We also include original ideas with theoretical and quantitative developments with application examples. The main contribution is a new way to rethink resilience, that is mathematically formal and easy to evaluate heuristically in real-world applications: ecosystem antifragility. An ecosystem is antifragile if it benefits from environmental variability. Antifragility therefore goes beyond robustness or resilience because while resilient/robust systems are merely perturbation-resistant, antifragile structures not only withstand stress but also benefit from it. %B PeerJ %V 8 %P e8533 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8533 %R 10.7717/peerj.8533