title: Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes.
abstract: In a world increasingly modified by human activities, the conservation of biodiversity is essential as insurance to maintain resilient ecosystems and ensure a sustainable flow of ecosystem goods and services to society. However, existing reserves and national parks are unlikely to incorporate the long-term and large-scale dynamics of ecosystems. Hence, conservation strategies have to actively incorporate the large areas of land that are managed for human use. For ecosystems to reorganize after large-scale natural and human-induced disturbances, spatial resilience in the form of ecological memory is a prerequisite. The ecological memory is composed of the species, interactions and structures that make ecosystem reorganization possible, and its components may be found within disturbed patches as well in the surrounding landscape. Present static reserves should be complemented with dynamic reserves, such as ecological fallows and dynamic successional reserves, that are part of ecosystem management mimicking natural disturbance regimes at the landscape level.
authors: Dept. Ecology and Crop Production Science, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden. Jan.Bengtsson@evp.slu.se
authors: Janne
authors: J
authors: Bengtsson
authors: Per
authors: P
authors: Angelstam
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Elmqvist
authors: Urban
authors: U
authors: Emanuelsson
authors: Carl
authors: C
authors: Folke
authors: Margareta
authors: M
authors: Ihse
authors: Fredrik
authors: F
authors: Moberg
authors: Magnus
authors: M
authors: Nyström
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004779:Environment Design; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics