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Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes

Bengtsson J, Angelstam P, Elmqvist T, Emanuelsson U, Folke C, Ihse M, Moberg F, Nystrom M

Sammanfattning

In a world increasingly modified by human activities, the conservation of biodiversity is essential as insurance to maintain resilient ecosystems and ensure a sustainable flow of ecosystem goods and services to society. However, existing reserves and national parks are unlikely to incorporate the long-term and large-scale dynamics of ecosystems. Hence, conservation strategies have to actively incorporate the large areas of land that are managed for human use. For ecosystems to reorganize after large-scale natural and human-induced disturbances, spatial resilience in the form of ecological memory is a prerequisite. The ecological memory is composed of the species, interactions and structures that make ecosystem reorganization possible, and its components may be found within disturbed patches as well in the surrounding landscape. Present static reserves should be complemented with dynamic reserves, such as ecological fallows and dynamic successional reserves, that are part of ecosystem management mimicking natural disturbance regimes at the landscape level

Publicerad i

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
2003, Volym: 32, nummer: 6, sidor: 389-396 Utgivare: ROYAL SWEDISH ACAD SCIENCES

      SLU författare

    • Bengtsson, Jan

      • Institutionen för ekologi och växtproduktionslära, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
      • Angelstam, Per

        • Institutionen för naturvårdsbiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
      • Associerade SLU-program

        SLU Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM

        UKÄ forskningsämne

        Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap

        Publikationens identifierare

        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1639/0044-7447(2003)032[0389:RRADL]2.0.CO;2

        Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

        https://res.slu.se/id/publ/1655