Ecological futures: Building an ecology of the long now

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2069-2083

  Carpenter, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Alternate states; Bayesian analysis; Ecological economics; Eutrophication; Fishery; Forecast; Long term research; Optimal control; Prediction; Resilience; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0000831906     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2069:efbaeo]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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