Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test.

ABSTRACT: When managing natural systems, the importance of recognizing the role of uncertainty has been formalized as the precautionary approach. However, it is difficult to determine the role of stochasticity in the success or failure of management because there is almost always no replication; typically, only a single observation exists for a particular site or management strategy. Yet, assessing the role of stochasticity is important for providing a strong foundation for the precautionary approach, and learning from past outcomes is critical for implementing adaptive management of species or ecosystems. In addition, adaptive management relies on being able to implement a variety of strategies in order to learn-an often difficult task in natural systems. Here, we show that there is large, stochast

SUBMITTER: White ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6859370 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature