Reserves, Resilience and Dynamic Landscapes

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 389-396

  Bengtsson, Janne ^a,d   Angelstam, Per ^a   Elmqvist, Thomas ^b,c   Emanuelsson, Urban ^b   Folke, Carl ^c,d   Ihse, Margareta ^b   Moberg, Fredrik ^c   Nyström, Magnus ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Biodiversity Centre   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0142059822     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.6.389     Document Type: Article

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100. We thank the large number of collegues that have discussed these issues with us over the years and helped us with details on individual systems. The discussions leading to the paper started after a workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function sponsored by the Oscar and Lili Lamm Foundation in 1997. Brian Walker, Anki Weibull, Johan Colding, Ove Eriksson and the Conservation Biology class of 2002 at SLU commented on the manuscript. We apologize to all authors who have not been cited because of constraints on space and the number of references. Our research on biodiversity and ecosystems has been financed by NFR (JB, TE), SJFR (JB), John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation and Pew charitable trust (program in biodiversity and conservation) (CF), WWF and NORFA (MI), and Marcus Wallenberg foundation for international cooperation in science, SAREC and SIDA (the coral reef studies). The Beijer Institute provided the facilities making our collaboration possible.
101. First submitted 11 June 2001. Revised manuscript received 1 July 2002. Accepted for publication 17 June 2003.