Effective management of ecological resilience - are we there yet?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1311-1315

  Spears, Bryan M ^a   Ives, Stephen C ^a   Angeler, David G ^b   Allen, Craig R ^c   Birk, Sebastian ^d   Carvalho, Laurence ^a   Cavers, Stephen ^a   Daunt, Francis ^a   Morton, R Daniel ^a   Pocock, Michael J O ^a   Rhodes, Glenn ^a   Thackeray, Stephen J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Management; Policy; Preventative; Research; Resilience; Society

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84941184819     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12497     Document Type: Article

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