Authors:
Fischer, J., D.B. Lindenmayer and A.D. Manning
Publication Date:
2006
Abstract/Summary:
We suggest ten guiding principles to help maintain biodiversity, ecosystem function, and resilience in production landscapes. Landscapes should include structurally characteristic patches of native vegetation, corridors and stepping stones between them, a structurally complex matrix, and buffers around sensitive areas. Management should maintain a diversity of species within and across functional groups. Highly focused management actions may be required to maintain keystone species and threatened species, and to control invasive species. These guiding principles provide a scientifically defensible starting point for the integration of conservation and production, which is urgently required from both an ecological and a long- term economic perspective.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0080:BEFART]2.0.CO;2/abstract