What is the Scope of "History" in Historical Ecology? Issues of Scale in Management and Conservation

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 63-75

  Wiens, John A ^a,b   Safford, Hugh D ^c,d   McGarigal, Kevin ^e   Romme, William H ^f   Manning, Mary ^c  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of ecological system and appropriate scale of management; Generalized space timescale of forests, fire or beetle outbreaks; Scale, and implications in historical ecology; Scales of the dominant disturbance, in determining scales; Scope of "history" in historical ecology, scale in management conservation; Sudden shifts tipping points in trajectory, boundaries of domains of scale; System dynamics resilient to disturbance, resilience and feedback mechanisms; Temporal variation magnitude and pattern, and spatial variation; Variation in any factor of interest and timescale; Venn diagram, scales of variation in the environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887144221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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