Reframing ecosystem management in the era of climate change: Issues and knowledge from forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 165, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-127

  Mori, Akira S ^a,e   Spies, Thomas A ^b   Sudmeier Rieux, Karen ^c,e   Andrade, Angela ^d,e  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Conservation International Columbia ^*  (Colombia)

^e IUCN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Climate change adaptation; Climate change mitigation; Ecological processes; Ecosystem based approaches to mitigation and adaptation, resilience; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STAKEHOLDER; WARMING; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84879588471     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.05.020     Document Type: Review

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