Executive Summary This report is organized around five interlocking questions regarding ecosystem based approaches to managing aquatic living resources, based on the understanding that management in natural resource contexts is the control of human intervention in ecosystems, and with the general focus of fished stocks that may be both predators and prey for other species in the system. Single-...

The International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network comprises > 600 scientific groups conducting sitebased research within 40 countries. Its mission includes improving the understanding of global ecosystems and informs solutions to current and future environmental problems at the global scales. The ILTER network covers a wide range of social-ecological conditions and is aligned with...

Decision-makers charged with implementing ecosystem-based management (EBM) rely on scientists to predict the consequences of decisions relating to multiple, potentially conflicting, objectives. Such predictions are inherently uncertain, and this can be a barrier to decision-making. The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources requires managers of Southern Ocean fisher...

Many small-scale private forest owners increasingly focus their management on amenity functions rather than on wood production functions. This paradigm shift is an opportunity to implement novel forestry management approaches, such as forested land zoning. Forest zoning consists in separating the land base in three zones that have different management objectives: (1) conservation zones; (2) eco...

The social and ecological contexts for rangeland management are changing rapidly, prompting a reevaluation of science, management, and their relationship. We argue that progression from steady-state management to ecosystem management has served the rangeland profession well, but that further development toward resilience-based management is required to ensure that ecosystem services are sustain...

Executive Summary The GLFC in its Vision Statement embraces the concept of " Healthy Great Lakes Ecosystems " and more generally ecosystem health as goals for the commission and its partners. However, current milestones are qualitative and not necessarily indicative of ecosystem health. A theme area is proposed to determine if the health concept can be usefully and objectively applied to ecosys...

The human ecosystem Part I: The human ecosystem as an organizing concept in ecosystem management Gary E. Machlis a , Jo Ellen Force b & William R. Burch JR. c a Cooperative Park Studies Unit, National Park Service, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 83844–1133, USA E-mail: [email protected] b Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, ...