Ecosystem-based management (EBM) involves the cooperation of many different stakeholders to come up with feasible ways to manage natural resources and ensure the sustainability of ecosystems. The EBM "interaction triangle" simplifies the relationships of stakeholders down to three interactions: A) decision makers - scientists, B) scientists - other actors, and C) other actors - … [Read more...]
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is passed on between people and across time (generation to generation) in ways that are different than scientific ecology. People can learn from ecological signals in order to come up with sustainable practices that will allow for the environment to continue to provide resources into the future. Once these practices are learned, usually … [Read more...]
Preferred Ecological Services Vary Person to Person
Due to limitations in funding and resources, not all ecological targets can be given top priority for conservation. When determining which ecological targets are most important for conservation, one thing that must be taken into account is the public's interest in the certain ecosystem services that would be provided from said conservation. The interest people have in different … [Read more...]
Ecological Concept: Biodiversity
Simply put, biodiversity is the variety of life within a certain area. It is often used to be a measure of the number of different species within an ecosystem. Biodiversity can refer to all of the living species within a defined area, or it can refer to the number of species within a certain group or classification, such as plant biodiversity, rodent biodiversity, etc. The … [Read more...]
Ecological Concept: Resilience and Resistance
Resistance is the ability for an ecosystem to remain unchanged when being subjected to a disturbance or disturbances. Some ecosystems are better at resisting change than others, and therefore have high resistance. Resilience is the ability and rate of an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance and return to its pre-disturbed state. Some ecosystems can shift greatly from … [Read more...]
