Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management (Ecological Society of America, February 1996)
This Ecological Society of America committee report establishes the scientific basis for ecosystem management, defining it as management driven by explicit sustainability goals, adaptive practices, and monitoring. The report addresses obstacles to sustainability including inadequate biodiversity information, ecosystem complexity, and scale mismatches, while providing implementation guidance for reconciling spatial and temporal scales in natural resource management.
- Date
- 1996
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Ecological Society of America, Norman L. Christensen, Ann M. Bartuska, James H. Brown, Stephen Carpenter, Carla D'Antonio, Robert Francis, Jerry F. Franklin, James A. MacMahon, Reed F. Noss, David J. Parsons, Charles H. Peterson, Monica G. Turner, Robert G. Woodmansee
- Locations
- United States, Canada, Mexico, Southeastern United States, Western United States, Southwest, Pacific Northwest
- Parameters
- ecosystem management, biological diversity, ecosystem sustainability, ecosystem function, ecosystem structure, forest management, migratory fish habitat, agricultural ecosystems, marine fisheries, rangeland management, adaptive management, ecosystem composition, monitoring and research
- Pages
- 12
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