Orchestrating ecosystem management: Challenges and lessons from Sequoia National Forest
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Studies done on the management of giant sequoia in Sequoia National Forest, California is presented to illuminate the challenges of practicing ecosystem management. Results reveal that to facilitate successful application of ecosystem management, managers have to build confidence and trust in the process, acknowledge bias, reconcile policy and funding constraints with long-term planning, invest in scientific research, data collection and monitoring capacity and explore the relationship between values and science.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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Transplantation of the suburb Lotus scoparius: testing the home-site advantage hypothesis
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The home-site advantage hypothesis is tested for a geographically variable shrub, Lotus scoparius, in southern Californian coastal sage scrub by planting two common garden experiments with seedlings from 12 source populations. The mis-matching of source population of genetically differentiated seed sources results in lowered success of restored or constructed populations.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2000
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An integrated model of two fire regimes
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The chaparral ecosystem in Southern California is not static and has experienced major changes in fire management as southern California's population has increased, while the chaparral of Baja California is characterized by smaller stands and propensity for low-intensity fires in relatively calm, humid weather. The sharp transition between the two regimes is explained.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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