Figure 7
Ball-in-well metaphor as framework for resilience with regard to the essential issue of weed growth (see Fig. 1 for explanation of the framing). (a) Landfall of the hurricane causes metaphorical ball to move up in the “productive farm” well, (b) resulting from a lack of effective weed control in the immediate post hurricane environment, the ball becomes perched on the border of the two wells (could pushed in either direction, toward the productive farm it originally was or the unproductive farm it could become). (c) Vines having transformed the dynamic background (the substance of the wells that attract the balls), the farm becomes transformed into the “unproductive farm” well. (d) Contrarily, with effective weed control the ball falls rapidly back to the productive farm well.
