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The ecological integrity of the Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. wyomingensis Beetle and A. Young) alliance is being severely interrupted by post-fire invasion of non-native annual grasses. To curtail this invasion, successful post-fire revegetation of perennial grasses is required. Environmental factors impacting post-fire restoration success vary across space within the Wyoming big sagebrush alliance; however, most restorative management practices are applied uniformly. Our objectives were to define probability of revegetation success over space using relevant soil-related environmental factors, use this information to model cost of successful revegetation and compare the importance of vegetation competition and soil factors to revegetation success. We studied a burned Wyoming big sagebrush landscape in southeast Oregon that was reseeded with perennial grasses. We collected soil and vegetation data at plots spaced at 30?m intervals along a 1.5?km transect in the first two years post-burn. Plots were classified as successful (>5?seedlings/m(2)) or unsuccessful based on density of seeded species. Using logistic regression we found that abundance of competing vegetation correctly predicted revegetation success on 51?% of plots, and soil-related variables correctly predicted revegetation performance on 82.4?% of plots. Revegetation estimates varied from $167.06 to $43,033.94/ha across the 1.5?km transect based on probability of success, but were more homogenous at larger scales. Our experimental protocol provides managers with a technique to identify important environmental drivers of restoration success and this process will be of value for spatially allocating logistical and capital expenditures in a variable restoration environment. 相似文献
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Info-Gap Decision Theory for Assessing the Management of Catchments for Timber Production and Urban Water Supply 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
While previous studies have examined how forest management is influenced by the risk of fire, they rely on probabilistic estimates
of the occurrence and impacts of fire. However, nonprobabilistic approaches are required for assessing the importance of fire
risk when data are poor but risks are appreciable. We explore impacts of fire risk on forest management using as a case study
a water catchment in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) (southeastern Australia). In this forested area, urban water supply
and timber yields from exotic plantations are potential joint but also competing land uses. Our analyses were stimulated by
extensive wildfires in early 2003 that burned much of the existing exotic pine plantation estate in the water catchment and
the resulting need to explore the relative economic benefits of revegetating the catchment with exotic plantations or native
vegetation. The current mean fire interval in the ACT is approximately 40 years, making the establishment of a pine plantation
economically marginal at a 4% discount rate. However, the relative impact on water yield of revegetation with native species
and pines is very uncertain, as is the risk of fire under climate change. We use info-gap decision theory to account for these
nonprobabilistic sources of uncertainty, demonstrating that the decision that is most robust to uncertainty is highly sensitive
to the cost of native revegetation. If costs of native revegetation are sufficiently small, this option is more robust to
uncertainty than revegetation with a commercial pine plantation. 相似文献
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Eiswerth ME Krauter K Swanson SR Zielinski M 《Journal of environmental management》2009,90(2):1320-1325
Since the mid-1980s, sagebrush rangelands in the Great Basin of the United States have experienced more frequent and larger wildfires. These fires affect livestock forage, the sagebrush/grasses/forbs mosaic that is important for many wildlife species (e.g., the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)), post-fire flammability and fire frequency. When a sagebrush, especially a Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis (Beetle & A. Young)), dominated area largely devoid of herbaceous perennials burns, it often transitions to an annual dominated and highly flammable plant community that thereafter excludes sagebrush and native perennials. Considerable effort is devoted to revegetating rangeland following fire, but to date there has been very little analysis of the factors that lead to the success of this revegetation. This paper utilizes a revegetation monitoring dataset to examine the densities of three key types of vegetation, specifically nonnative seeded grasses, nonnative seeded forbs, and native Wyoming big sagebrush, at several points in time following seeding. We find that unlike forbs, increasing the seeding rates for grasses does not appear to increase their density (at least for the sites and seeding rates we examined). Also, seeding Wyoming big sagebrush increases its density with time since fire. Seeding of grasses and forbs is less successful at locations that were dominated primarily by annual grasses (cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.)), and devoid of shrubs, prior to wildfire. This supports the hypothesis of a "closing window of opportunity" for seeding at locations that burned sagebrush for the first time in recent history. 相似文献
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Great Basin Land Management Planning Using Ecological Modeling 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
This report describes a land management modeling effort that analyzed potential impacts of proposed actions under an updated
Bureau of Land Management Resource Management Plan that will guide management for 20 years on 4.6 million hectares in the
Great Basin ecoregion of the United States. State-and-transition models that included vegetation data, fire histories, and
many parameters (i.e., rates of succession, fire return intervals, outcomes of management actions, and invasion rates of native
and nonnative invasive species) were developed through workshops with scientific experts and range management specialists.
Alternative restoration scenarios included continuation of current management, full fire suppression, wildfire use in designated fire use zones, wildfire use in resilient vegetation types only, restoration with a tenfold budget increase, no restoration treatments, and no livestock grazing. Under all the scenarios, cover of vegetation states with native perennial understory declined and was replaced by tree-invaded
and weed-dominated states. The greatest differences among alternative management scenarios resulted from the use of fire as
a tool to maintain native understory. Among restoration scenarios, only the scenario assuming a tenfold budget increase had
a more desirable outcome than the current management scenario. Removal of livestock alone had little effect on vegetation
resilience. Rather, active restoration was required. The predictive power of the model was limited by current understanding
of Great Basin vegetation dynamics and data needs including statistically valid monitoring of restoration treatments, invasiveness
and invasibility, and fire histories. The authors suggest that such computer models can be useful tools for systematic analysis
of potential impacts in land use planning. However, for a modeling effort to be productive, the management situation must
be conducive to open communication among land management agencies and partner entities, including nonprofit organizations. 相似文献
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Xiaoli Chen Nathan Emery Elizabeth S. Garcia Erin J. Hanan Heather E. Hodges Tyronne Martin Matthew A. Meyers Lindsey E. Peavey Hui Peng Jaime Sainz Santamaria Kellie A. Uyeda Sarah E. Anderson Christina Tague 《Environmental management》2013,52(6):1415-1426
Environmental regulations frequently mandate the use of “best available” science, but ensuring that it is used in decisions around the use and protection of natural resources is often challenging. In the Western US, this relationship between science and management is at the forefront of post-fire land management decisions. Recent fires, post-fire threats (e.g. flooding, erosion), and the role of fire in ecosystem health combine to make post-fire management highly visible and often controversial. This paper uses post-fire management to present a framework for understanding why disconnects between science and management decisions may occur. We argue that attributes of agencies, such as their political or financial incentives, can limit how effectively science is incorporated into decision-making. At the other end of the spectrum, the lack of synthesis or limited data in science can result in disconnects between science-based analysis of post-fire effects and agency policy and decisions. Disconnects also occur because of the interaction between the attributes of agencies and the attributes of science, such as their different spatial and temporal scales of interest. After offering examples of these disconnects in post-fire treatment, the paper concludes with recommendations to reduce disconnects by improving monitoring, increasing synthesis of scientific findings, and directing social-science research toward identifying and deepening understanding of these disconnects. 相似文献
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While riparin vegetation can play a major role in protecting land, water and natural habitat in catchments, there are high costs associated with tree planting and establishment and in diverting land from cropping. The distribution of costs and benefits of riparian revegetation creates conflicts in the objectives of various stakeholder groups. Multicriteria analysis provides an appropriate tool to evaluate alternative riparian revegetation options, and to accommodate the conflicting views of various stakeholder groups. This paper discusses an application of multicriteria analysis in an evaluation of riparian revegetation policy options for Scheu Creek, a small sub-catchment in the Johnstone River catchment in north Queensland, Australia. Clear differences are found in the rankings of revegetation options for different stakeholder groups with respect to environmental, social and economic impacts. Implementation of a revegetation option will involve considerable cost for landholders for the benefits of society. Queensland legislation does not provide a means to require farmers to implement riparian revegetation, hence the need for subsidies, tax incentives and moral suasion. 相似文献
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Evan T. Harrison Fiona Dyer Daniel W. Wright Chris Levings 《Environmental management》2014,53(2):393-400
Wildfires commonly result in an increase in stream turbidity. However, the influence of pre-fire land-use practices on post-fire stream turbidity is not well understood. The Lower Cotter Catchment (LCC) in south-eastern Australia is part of the main water supply catchment for Canberra with land in the catchment historically managed for a mix of conservation (native eucalypt forest) and pine (Pinus radiata) plantation. In January 2003, wildfires burned almost all of the native and pine forests in the LCC. A study was established in 2005 to determine stream post-fire turbidity recovery within the native and pine forest areas of the catchment. Turbidity data loggers were deployed in two creeks within burned native forest and burned pine forest areas to determine turbidity response to fire in these areas. As a part of the study, we also determined changes in bare soil in the native and pine forest areas since the fire. The results suggest that the time, it takes turbidity levels to decrease following wildfire, is dependent upon the preceding land-use. In the LCC, turbidity levels decreased more rapidly in areas previously with native vegetation compared to areas which were previously used for pine forestry. This is likely because of a higher percentage of bare soil areas for a longer period of time in the ex-pine forest estate and instream stores of fine sediment from catchment erosion during post-fire storm events. The results of our study show that the previous land-use may exert considerable control over on-going turbidity levels following a wildfire. 相似文献
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Helen Mills Poulos Rachael S. Freeman Jennifer M. Karberg Karen C. Beattie Danielle I. ODell Kelly A. Omand 《Environmental management》2020,65(1):111-121
Coastal sandplains provide habitat for a suite of rare and endangered plant and wildlife species in the northeastern United States. These early successional plant communities were maintained by natural and anthropogenic disturbances including salt spray, fire, and livestock grazing, but over the last 150 years, a decrease in anthropogenic disturbance frequency and intensity has resulted in a shift towards woody shrub dominance at the expense of herbaceous taxa. This study quantified the effects of more than a decade of dormant season disturbance-based vegetation management (mowing and prescribed fire) on coastal sandplain plant community composition on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA. We used time-series plant cover data from two similar sites to evaluate the effectiveness of disturbance management for restoring herbaceous species cover and reducing woody shrub dominance. Our results indicate that applying management outside of the peak of the growing season has not been effective in maintaining or increasing the cover of herbaceous species. While management activities resulted in significant (P < 0.01) increases in herbaceous species immediately after treatment, woody species recolonized and dominated treated sites within 3-years post treatment at the expense of graminoids and forbs. These results highlight the difficulties associated with directing ecological succession using disturbance-based management to maintain rare, herbaceous species in coastal sandplain systems that were once a prevalent landscape component under historically chronic anthropogenic disturbance. Further experimentation with growing season disturbance-based management and different combinations of management techniques could provide insights into management alternatives for maintaining herbaceous conservation targets in coastal sandplains. 相似文献
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Katja Kangas Anne Tolvanen Tarja Kälkäjä Pirkko Siikamäki 《Environmental management》2009,44(3):408-419
Outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism represent an increasingly intensive form of land use that has considerable impacts
on native ecosystems. The aim of this paper is to investigate how revegetation and management of ski runs influence soil nutrients,
vegetation characteristics, and the possible invasion of nonnative plant species used in revegetation into native ecosystems.
A soil and vegetation survey at ski runs and nearby forests, and a factorial experiment simulating ski run construction and
management (factors: soil removal, fertilization, and seed sowing) were conducted at Ruka ski resort, in northern Finland,
during 2003–2008. According to the survey, management practices had caused considerable changes in the vegetation structure
and increased soil nutrient concentrations, pH, and conductivity on the ski runs relative to nearby forests. Seed mixture
species sown during the revegetation of ski runs had not spread to adjacent forests. The experimental study showed that the
germination of seed mixture species was favored by treatments simulating the management of ski runs, but none of them could
eventually establish in the study forest. As nutrient leaching causes both environmental deterioration and changes in vegetation
structure, it may eventually pose a greater environmental risk than the spread of seed mixture species alone. Machine grading
and fertilization, which have the most drastic effects on soils and vegetation, should, therefore, be minimized when constructing
and managing ski runs. 相似文献
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Modelling the Ecological Vulnerability to Forest Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems Using Geographic Information Technologies 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Beatriz Duguy José Antonio Alloza M. Jaime Baeza Juan De la Riva Maite Echeverría Paloma Ibarra Juan Llovet Fernando Pérez Cabello Pere Rovira Ramon V. Vallejo 《Environmental management》2012,50(6):1012-1026
Forest fires represent a major driver of change at the ecosystem and landscape levels in the Mediterranean region. Environmental features and vegetation are key factors to estimate the ecological vulnerability to fire; defined as the degree to which an ecosystem is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of fire (provided a fire occurs). Given the predicted climatic changes for the region, it is urgent to validate spatially explicit tools for assessing this vulnerability in order to support the design of new fire prevention and restoration strategies. This work presents an innovative GIS-based modelling approach to evaluate the ecological vulnerability to fire of an ecosystem, considering its main components (soil and vegetation) and different time scales. The evaluation was structured in three stages: short-term (focussed on soil degradation risk), medium-term (focussed on changes in vegetation), and coupling of the short- and medium-term vulnerabilities. The model was implemented in two regions: Aragón (inland North-eastern Spain) and Valencia (eastern Spain). Maps of the ecological vulnerability to fire were produced at a regional scale. We partially validated the model in a study site combining two complementary approaches that focused on testing the adequacy of model’s predictions in three ecosystems, all very common in fire-prone landscapes of eastern Spain: two shrublands and a pine forest. Both approaches were based on the comparison of model’s predictions with values of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), which is considered a good proxy for green biomass. Both methods showed that the model’s performance is satisfactory when applied to the three selected vegetation types. 相似文献
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In this paper we quantify the additional water quality benefits that can be achieved through coordinated cumulative impact management. To do this we simulate coordinated and un-coordinated revegetation investments and compare their impact on achieving regional water quality goals. Our results show that coordination between multiple mining companies achieves additional benefits since prioritization is enabled across a broader range of investment opportunities. Additionally, when coordinated investment is permitted beyond the boundaries of coal mining leases, results show that additional benefits are greatly enhanced since these regions provide more rewarding investment opportunities. Results illustrate (a) how regional coordination may influence reputational benefits of investments, and (b) that coordination is beneficial when investment opportunities are unevenly distributed across the landscape. When additional benefits are achievable, we suggest that mining companies should develop collective investment projects with an understanding of how coordination influences project costs. Similarly, investment projects should be developed with an understanding of investment tradeoffs and how these may adversely impact on regional stakeholders and hence industry reputation. The mining industry has significant potential to contribute to regional wellbeing; however, land management policies must be flexible and promote incentives to enable companies to invest beyond compliance. 相似文献
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Stephen C. Newbold 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2002,38(2):341-353
ABSTRACT: This paper presents an optimization framework for prioritizing sites for wetlands restoration on a watershed or landscape scale. The framework is designed for analyzing the potential environmental impacts of alternative management strategies while accounting for economic constraints, thereby aiding decision makers in explicitly considering multiple management objectives. The modeling strategy consists of two phases. First, relationships between the configuration of land use types in a watershed and valued ecosystem services are specified mathematically. Second, those functions are incorporated into a spatial optimization model that allows comparisons of the expected environmental impacts and economic costs of management strategies that change the configuration of land use in the watershed. By way of a stylized example, this paper develops the general structure of the framework, presents simulation results based on two production functions for ecosystem services, and discusses the potential utility of the methodology for watershed management. 相似文献
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We compared measures of ecosystem state across six adjacent land-tenure groups in the intact tropical savanna landscapes of
northern Australia. Tenure groups include two managed by Aboriginal owners, two national parks, a cluster of pastoral leases,
and a military training area. This information is of relevance to the debate about the role of indigenous lands in the Australian
conservation estate. The timing and frequency of fire was determined by satellite imagery; the biomass and composition of
the herb-layer and the abundance of large feral herbivores by field surveys; and weediness by analysis of a Herbarium database.
European tenures varied greatly in fire frequencies but were consistently burnt earlier in the dry season than the two Aboriginal
tenures, the latter having intermediate fire frequencies. Weeds were more frequent in the European tenures, whilst feral animals
were most abundant in the Aboriginal tenures. This variation strongly implies a signature of current management and/or recent
environmental history. We identify indices suitable for monitoring of management outcomes in an extensive and sparsely populated
landscape. Aboriginal land offers a unique opportunity for the conservation of biodiversity through the maintenance of traditional
fire regimes. However, without financial support, traditional practices may prove unsustainable both economically and because
exotic weeds and feral animals will alter fire regimes. An additional return on investment in Aboriginal land management is
likely to be improved livelihoods and health outcomes for these disadvantaged communities. 相似文献
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On-ground natural resource management actions such as revegetation and remnant vegetation management can simultaneously affect multiple objectives including land, water and biodiversity resources. Hence, planning for the sustainable management of natural resources requires consideration of these multiple objectives. However, planning the location of management actions in the landscape often treats these objectives individually to reduce the process and spatial complexity inherent in human-modified and natural landscapes. This can be inefficient and potentially counterproductive given the linkages and trade-offs involved. We develop and apply a systematic regional planning approach to identify geographic priorities for on-ground natural resource management actions that most cost-effectively meet multiple natural resource management objectives. Our systematic regional planning approach utilises integer programming within a structured multi-criteria decision analysis framework. Intelligent siting can capitalise on the multiple benefits of on-ground actions and achieve natural resource management objectives more efficiently. The focus of this study is the human-modified landscape of the River Murray, South Australia. However, the methodology and analyses presented here can be adapted to other regions requiring more efficient and integrated planning for the management of natural resources. 相似文献
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Determining Relative Contributions of Vegetation and Topography to Burn Severity from LANDSAT Imagery 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Zhiwei Wu Hong S. He Yu Liang Longyan Cai Bernard J. Lewis 《Environmental management》2013,52(4):821-836
Fire is a dominant process in boreal forest landscapes and creates a spatial patch mosaic with different burn severities and age classes. Quantifying effects of vegetation and topography on burn severity provides a scientific basis on which forest fire management plans are developed to reduce catastrophic fires. However, the relative contribution of vegetation and topography to burn severity is highly debated especially under extreme weather conditions. In this study, we hypothesized that relationships of vegetation and topography to burn severity vary with fire size. We examined this hypothesis in a boreal forest landscape of northeastern China by computing the burn severity of 24 fire patches as the difference between the pre- and post-fire Normalized Difference Vegetation Index obtained from two Landsat TM images. The vegetation and topography to burn severity relationships were evaluated at three fire-size levels of small (<100 ha, n = 12), moderate (100–1,000 ha, n = 9), and large (>1,000 ha, n = 3). Our results showed that vegetation and topography to burn severity relationships were fire-size-dependent. The burn severity of small fires was primary controlled by vegetation conditions (e.g., understory cover), and the burn severity of large fires was strongly influenced by topographic conditions (e.g., elevation). For moderate fires, the relationships were complex and indistinguishable. Our results also indicated that the pattern trends of relative importance for both vegetation and topography factors were not dependent on fire size. Our study can help managers to design fire management plans according to vegetation characteristics that are found important in controlling burn severity and prioritize management locations based on the relative importance of vegetation and topography. 相似文献
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This article deals with the visual quality of Mediterranean vegetation groups in northern Israel, the public's preference of these groups as a visual resource, and the policy options for their management. The study is based on a sample of 44 Mediterranean vegetation groups and three population groups of local residents, who were interviewed using a questionnaire and photographs of the vegetation groups. The results of the research showed that plant classification methods based on flora composition, habitat, and external appearance were found to be suitable for visual plant classification and for the evaluation of visual preference of vegetation groups by the interviewed public. The vegetation groups of planted pine forests and olive groves, characterizing a cultured vegetation landscape, were preferred over typical Mediterranean landscapes such as scrub and grassed scrub. The researchers noted a marked difference between the two products of vegetation management policy, one that proposes the conservation and restoration of the variety of native Mediterranean vegetation landscape, and a second that advanced the development of the cultured landscape of planted olive groves and pines forests, which were highly preferred by the public. The authors suggested the development of an integrated vegetation management policy that would combine both needs and thus reduce the gap between the policy proposed by planners and the local population's visual preference. 相似文献
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Corace RG Shartell LM Schulte LA Brininger WL McDowell MK Kashian DM 《Environmental management》2012,49(2):359-371
To facilitate forest planning and management on National Wildlife Refuges, we synthesized multiple data sources to describe
land ownership patterns, land cover, landscape pattern, and changes in forest composition for four ecoregions and their associated
refuges of the Upper Midwest. We related observed patterns to ecological processes important for forest conservation and restoration,
with specific attention to refuge patterns of importance for forest landbirds of conservation priority. The large amount of
public land within the ecoregions (31–80%) suggests that opportunities exist for coarse and meso-scale approaches to conserving
and restoring ecological processes affecting the refuges, particularly historical fire regimes. Forests dominate both ecoregions
and refuges, but refuge forest patches are generally larger and more aggregated than in associated ecoregions. Broadleaf taxa
have increased in dominance in the ecoregions and displaced fire-dependent taxa such as pine (Pinus spp.) and other coniferous species; these changes in forest composition have likely also affected refuge forests. Despite
compositional changes, larger forest patches on refuges suggests that they may provide better habitat for area-sensitive forest
landbirds of mature, compositionally diverse forests than surrounding lands if management continues to promote increased patch
size. We reason that although fine-scale research and monitoring for species of conservation priority is important, broad
scale (ecoregional) assessments provide crucial context for effective forest and wildlife management in protected areas. 相似文献
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Ecologists are beginning to recognize the effect of heterogeneity on structure and function in arid and semiarid ecosystems.
Additionally, the influences of temperature on ecosystems are widely documented, but landscape temperature patterns and relationships
with vegetation are rarely reported in ecological studies. To better understand the importance of temperature patterns to
the conservation and restoration of native ecosystems, we designed an experiment to investigate relationships among soil surface
temperature, landscape heterogeneity, and grazing intensity. Grazing intensity did influence the vegetation structure and
composition. Heavy treatments had the greatest bare ground and the least vertical structure. Ungrazed treatments had the most
litter and live grass cover. However, average temperatures among the three grazing treatments were not different and ranged
less than 2°C during midday summer periods. The temperature difference between riparian and upland landscapes within grazing
treatments was 21°C. Landscape position (riparian vs. upland) did have a significant influence on soil surface temperature
and produced a variation in temperature 11 times greater than grazing intensities. Thermal heterogeneity did not differ among
grazing treatments. Lower soil surface temperatures (associated with riparian areas) may provide a critical thermal refuge
for many animals in arid and semiarid ecosystems on hot summer days, when air temperatures can exceed 37°C. Riparian zones,
specifically riparian vegetation, are an important component in ecosystem management. 相似文献
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David R. Montgomery 《Environmental management》1995,19(2):183-188
Input- and output-oriented approaches to landscape management have distinct roles for resource protection, environmental restoration,
and sustainable land management. Implementing recent proposals for ecosystem management in the western United States involves
a synthesis of input and output management. Within the broader context of ecosystem management, input management focuses on
tailoring land use to the landscape, whereas output management employs assessments of resource condition to trigger modified
management activity once resources are degraded to specified threshold conditions. Current approaches to landscape-scale management,
however, tend to rely primarily on output-oriented strategies that are most effective for monitoring environmental conditions.
Current uses of input management focus on environmental impact assessments, which generally are site- or project-specific
analyses. The compeexity and dynamic nature of ecosystems, and the range of scales over which ecological processes operate,
imply that development and incorporation of input-oriented approaches into landscape-scale management is necessary to implement
ecosystem management as a strategy for sustainable land use. 相似文献
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A strategy for management of giant sequoia groves is formulated using a conceptual framework for ecosystem management recently
developed by Region Five of the USDA Forest Service. The framework includes physical, biological, and social dimensions. Environmental
indicators and reference variability for key ecosystem elements are discussed in this paper. The selected ecosystem elements
include: 1) attitudes, beliefs, and values; 2) economics and subsistence; 3) stream channel morphology; 4) sediment; 5) water;
6) fire; 7) organic debris; and 8) vegetation mosaic. Recommendations are made for the attributes of environmental indicators
that characterize these elements. These elements and associated indicators will define and control management activities for
the protection, preservation, and restoration of national forest giant sequoia ecosystems. 相似文献