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Applying Ecosystem and Landscape Models in Natural Resource Management (Paperback)
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Applying Ecosystem and Landscape Models in Natural Resource Management (Paperback)
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Managing today's lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task.
Complex ecological interactions across multiple spatiotemporal
scales create diverse landscape responses to management actions
that are often novel, counter-intuitive and unexpected. To make
matters worse, exotic invasions, human land use, and global climate
change complicate this complexity and make past observational
ecological studies limited in application to the future. Natural
resource professionals can no longer rely on empirical data to
analyze alternative actions in a world that is rapidly changing
with few historical analogs. New tools are needed to synthesize the
high complexity in ecosystem dynamics into useful applications for
land management. Some of the best new tools available for this task
are ecological and landscape simulation models. However, many land
management professionals and scientists have little expertise in
simulation modeling, and the costs of training these people will
probably be exorbitantly high because most ecosystem and landscape
models are exceptionally complicated and difficult to understand
and use for local applications. This book was written to provide
natural resource professionals with the rudimentary knowledge
needed to properly use ecological models and then to interpret
their results. It is based on the lessons learned from a career
spent modeling ecological systems. It is intended as a reference
for novice modelers to learn how to correctly employ ecosystem
landscape models in natural resource management applications and to
understand subsequent modeling results.
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