Panel-based assessment of ecosystem condition as a platform for adaptive and knowledge driven management.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems are subjected to increasing exposure to multiple anthropogenic drivers. This has led to the development of national and international accounting systems describing the condition of ecosystems, often based on few, highly aggregated indicators. Such accounting systems would benefit from a stronger theoretical and empirical underpinning of ecosystem dynamics. Operational tools for ecosystem management require understanding of natural ecosystem dynamics, consideration of uncertainty at all levels, means for quantifying driver-response relationships behind observed and anticipated future trajectories of change, and an efficient and transparent synthesis to inform knowledge-driven decision processes. There is hence a gap between highly aggregated indicator-based accounting tools and t

SUBMITTER: Jepsen JU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11438735 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature