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Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists

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Title Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists
 
Creator Toit, J.T. du
Walker, B.H.
Campbell, Bruce M.
 
Subject ecology
tropical forests
biodiversity
natural resources
intervention
landscape ecology
 
Description Tropical biodiversity continues to erode unabated, which calls for ecologists to address the problem directly, placing less reliance on indirect interventions, such as community-based development schemes. Ecologists must become more assertive in providing scientifically formulated and adaptively managed interventions, involving biodiversity payments, to serve local, regional and global interests in tropical nature. Priorities for tropical ecologists thus include the identification of key thresholds to ecological resilience, and the formulation of clear monitoring protocols and management strategies for implementation by local resource managers. A particular challenge is to demonstrate how nature reserves contribute to the adaptive capacity of regional land-use matrices and, hence, to the provision of sustainable benefits at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
 
Date 2003
2012-06-04T09:08:53Z
2012-06-04T09:08:53Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier du Toit, J.T., Walker, B.H., Campbell, B.M. 2003. Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists . Trends in Ecology and Evolution 1 (19) :12-17.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18839
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1386
 
Language en
 
Format p. 12-17
 
Source Trends in Ecology and Evolution