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Ecosystem management and moose: creating a coherent concept with functional management strategies.
Alces; 1/1/2002; Van Dyke, Fred Darby, Brian Van Kley, Sarah E. Schmeling, Jamie D. DeJager, Nathan R.; 787 words
; ABSTRACT: Ecosystem management is a popular but poorly defined ... principles. We propose a definition of ecosystem management that emphasizes essential ... functional and operational attributes of ecosystem management rather than its descriptive ...
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Importance of 'ecosystem services' for sustainable development: ecosystem services are the foundation of sustainable development; without them we'd have no food, shelter or wilderness 'escapes'. As Drs Anna Straton and Leonie Pearson explain, we need to better understand them, and how they contribute to our well-being, in order to achieve more sustainable progress.
Ecos; 6/1/2008; Straton, Anna Pearson, Leonie; 632 words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Ecosystem services' is the term given to the ... provided by natural and modified ecosystems that benefit, sustain and support ... benefits. These services come from ecosystems made up of a combination of soil ...
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Disadvantages and future research directions in valuation of ecosystem services in China
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology; 8/1/2007; Bao, Yonghong; Wu, Wenliang; Wang, Mingxin; Liu, Wenna; 787 words
; Key words: Contingent valuation, ecosystem services, China, total economic value ... background and valuation history of ecosystem services in China and abroad, and highlight the importance of ecosystem services and the necessity of their ...
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Spatial complementarity of forests and farms: accounting for ecosystem services.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics; 11/1/2005; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. Butry, David T.; 787 words
; Forests provide an array of ecosystem services by sequestering carbon ... irreversibly and substantively impair these ecosystem functions. This raises the question ... particularly any latent and complex ecosystem services (Dasgupta). The economic ...
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Putting "ecosystem" into natural resource management.(Commentary)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation; 7/1/1996; Samson, Fred B. Knopf, Fritz L.; 787 words
; ... excited about the possibility of using an ecosystem approach for real-world applications in resource management (Sparrowe 1994). Ecosystem management is pivotal to the growing ... services (Barnes 1993). Leopold described ecosystem management in two distinct stages; first ...
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Reykjavik declaration on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem *: October 18, 2001. (Documents).
Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy; 9/22/2001; 787 words
; ... on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem from 1 to 4 October 2001, Appreciating ... and Twentieth Session recommended that ecosystem-based fisheries management studies to ... sustainable fisheries management incorporating ecosystem considerations entails taking into account ...
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USING LANDSCAPE HIERARCHIES TO GUIDE RESTORATION OF DISTURBED ECOSYSTEMS.(Statistical Data Included)
Ecological Applications; 2/1/2000; PALIK, BRIAN J. GOEBEL, P. CHARLES KIRKMAN, L. KATHERINE WEST, LARRY; 787 words
; ... communities is an important focus of ecosystem restoration. In complex landscapes containing a diversity of ecosystem types, restoration requires a set of reference vegetation conditions for the ecosystems of concern, and a predictive model to ...
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Moose in modern integrated ecosystem management--how should the Malawi principles be adapted?
Alces; 1/1/2003; Jaren, Vemund Sinclair, A.R.E. Andersen, Reidar Danell, Kjell Schwartz, Chuck Peterson, Rolf O. Bowyer, R. Terry Ericsson, Goran; 787 words
; ... special emphasis has been put on an integrated ecosystem approach. Some of the Malawi principles state ... lowest appropriate level. A key feature of the ecosystem approach includes conservation of ecosystem structure and function on a long term basis ...
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ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY: A CLASSIFICATION OF HYPOTHESES AND EXPLORATION OF EMPIRICAL RESULTS.(Statistical Data Included)
Ecological Applications; 8/1/1999; SCHLAPFER, FELIX SCHMID, BERNHARD; 787 words
; ... evidence for effects of biodiversity on ecosystem properties and processes indicates that ... classified hypotheses according to observed ecosystem variables and trophic contexts; trophic ... the trophic position of the observed ecosystem variable and the trophic position of ...
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Broader system urged for fisheries management ; Ecosystem management would take into account how a plan for one species would affect another.
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 10/10/2005; TOM BELL Staff Writer; 787 words
; ... system urged for fisheries management ; Ecosystem management would take into account how ... Memo: TODAY'S QUESTION DO YOU SUPPORT ecosystem management as a fisheries management ... These issues need to be resolved, and an ecosystem approach is a framework to do that ...
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