Uses and limitations of historical variability concepts in managing ecosystems
Parsons DJ, Swetnam T, Christensen NL. 1999. Uses and limitations of historical variability concepts in managing ecosystems. Ecological Applications. 9(4):1177-1178
Historical reconstructions of past community structures and disturbance regimes & suggest that many current environmental problems are rooted in extreme and unsustainable human-caused deviations from historical, or so-called natural conditions. Thus, an increasingly recognized and debated concept in ecosystem management is that knowledge of historical patterns and processes as reference conditions is prerequisite to informed land management.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Parsons, D; Swetnam, TW; Christensen, N
- Units
- VOYA
- Keywords
- Climate Change, Disturbance, Ecosystem Management, Environmental history, historical ecology, historical variability, Landscape management, Management, natural variability, natural variation, Plant Communities, range of natural variation, Reference conditions, Restoration