Baselines, Patterns and Process

Conservation Biogeography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-44

  Gillson, Lindsey ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^b,c   Araújo, Miguel B ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Baselines, patterns and process diversity of goals, conservationists for protected areas; Choice of baseline, informing management influence on ecology of protected area; Climax theory, capturing ideas climate, major determinants of vegetation type; Competition, increasing with population size growth and resources consumed; Conservation decisions objectives and values of organizations, or individuals involved; Goal of conservation restoring and maintaining ecosystem processes; Hierarchical patch dynamics paradigm (HPDP) and literature, ideas of resilience and ecological thresholds; Paradigm shift in ecology, equilibrium or 'balance of nature' world view nature in flux, not at equilibrium; Pure functionalist approach, rare or endangered species by 'weedy' species; Understanding ecosystems in flux 'flux of nature' paradigm, ecosystems, heterogeneous (patchy) and dynamic (variable over time)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865396321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390001.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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