Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists

Tropical biodiversity continues to erode unabated, which calls for ecologists to address the problem directly, placing less reliance on indirect interventions, such as community-based development schemes. Ecologists must become more assertive in providing scientifically formulated and adaptively managed interventions, involving biodiversity payments, to serve local, regional and global interests in tropical nature. Priorities for tropical ecologists thus include the identification of key thresholds to ecological resilience, and the formulation of clear monitoring protocols and management strategies for implementation by local resource managers. A particular challenge is to demonstrate how nature reserves contribute to the adaptive capacity of regional land-use matrices and, hence, to the provision of sustainable benefits at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Toit, J.T. du, Walker, B.H., Campbell, Bruce M.
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2003
Subjects:	ecology, tropical forests, biodiversity, natural resources, intervention, landscape ecology,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18839 https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1386
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