TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing the whole landscape
T2 - Historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems
AU - Hobbs, Richard J.
AU - Higgs, Eric
AU - Hall, Carol M.
AU - Bridgewater, Peter
AU - Chapin, F. Stuart
AU - Ellis, Erle C.
AU - Ewel, John J.
AU - Hallett, Lauren M.
AU - Harris, James
AU - Hulvey, Kristen B.
AU - Jackson, Stephen T.
AU - Kennedy, Patricia L.
AU - Kueffer, Christoph
AU - Lach, Lori
AU - Lantz, Trevor C.
AU - Lugo, Ariel E.
AU - Mascaro, Joseph
AU - Murphy, Stephen D.
AU - Nelson, Cara R.
AU - Perring, Michael P.
AU - Richardson, David M.
AU - Seastedt, Timothy R.
AU - Standish, Rachel J.
AU - Starzomski, Brian M.
AU - Suding, Katherine N.
AU - Tognetti, Pedro M.
AU - Yakob, Laith
AU - Yung, Laurie
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and agricultural development. A landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across the spectrum of degrees of alteration, provides a fuller set of options for how and when to intervene, uses limited resources more effectively, and increases the chances of achieving management goals. That many ecosystems have departed so substantially from their historical trajectory that they defy conventional restoration is not in dispute. Acknowledging novel ecosystems need not constitute a threat to existing policy and management approaches. Rather, the development of an integrated approach to management interventions can provide options that are in tune with the current reality of rapid ecosystem change.
AB - The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and agricultural development. A landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across the spectrum of degrees of alteration, provides a fuller set of options for how and when to intervene, uses limited resources more effectively, and increases the chances of achieving management goals. That many ecosystems have departed so substantially from their historical trajectory that they defy conventional restoration is not in dispute. Acknowledging novel ecosystems need not constitute a threat to existing policy and management approaches. Rather, the development of an integrated approach to management interventions can provide options that are in tune with the current reality of rapid ecosystem change.
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/managing-whole-landscape-historical-hybrid-novel-ecosystems
U2 - 10.1890/130300
DO - 10.1890/130300
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84912541727
SN - 1540-9295
VL - 12
SP - 557
EP - 564
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
IS - 10
ER -