Ecosystems and ecosystem-based management

dc.contributor.authorHaas, Carola A.en
dc.contributor.authorFrimpong, Emmanuel A.en
dc.contributor.authorKarpanty, Sarah M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:37Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:37Zen
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explains the importance and complexity of ecosystems in a landscape system. The ecosystem level of management integrates activities at the field, farm, and watershed levels. A thorough understanding of the effects humans have on ecosystem services across multiple spatial and temporal scales is essential to maintaining the natural patterns and the balance of nutrients and energy in an ecosystem. It can be difficult to measure these effects because they can be very far reaching, sometimes across hundreds of kilometers. Also, there is an unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of ecosystem services related to agricultural practices. For example, in order to implement successful conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS), adaptive management strategies need to be developed to restore nutrient and water cycling in the system. Management systems that incorporate these natural patterns and focus on individual incentives and CAPS adoption will likely be most sustainable in the long term. This chapter offers scenarios using a model ecosystem, model assumptions and possible results to show how proper management strategies can be achieved.en
dc.description.notesME (Management Entity)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier4603en
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9769432-7-3en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68854en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAnkeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Societyen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Moore, K. M. (ed.) The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, 106-142en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.swcs.org/en/publications/the_sciences_and_art_of_adaptive_management/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2009 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society. All rights reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectGroundwateren
dc.subjectWater policyen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectSoil managementen
dc.subjectSoil qualityen
dc.subjectNutrient recyclingen
dc.subjectFlood controlen
dc.subjectSustainable forestryen
dc.subjectIrrigationen
dc.subjectAgroforestryen
dc.subjectWater qualityen
dc.subjectShifting cultivationen
dc.subjectRiparian ecosystemsen
dc.subjectRiparian buffersen
dc.subjectEcosystem servicesen
dc.subjectEcosystem processesen
dc.subjectPolicy incentivesen
dc.subjectFinancial incentivesen
dc.subjectNutrient balanceen
dc.subjectRunoffen
dc.subjectHolistic resource managementen
dc.subjectDead zonesen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleEcosystems and ecosystem-based managementen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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