Anthropogenic stressors affect the ecosystems upon which humanity relies. In some cases when resilience is exceeded, relatively small linear changes in stressors can cause …
Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated …
Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and …
SJ McCoy, RP Walsh - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we develop a parsimonious model that links underlying changes in location- specific risk perceptions to housing market dynamics. Given estimates of both the price and …
Thresholds and their relevance to conservation have become a major topic of discussion in the ecological literature. Unfortunately, in many cases the lack of a clear conceptual …
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management where knowledge is incomplete, and when, despite inherent …
LE O'Brien, RE Urbanek, JD Gregory - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
The recent sprawl of urbanization in the Eastern US perpetuated by population growth and economic success has caused landscapes to become vulnerable to degradation. As urban …
Background Urbanization is characterized by high levels of sealed land-cover, and small, geometrically complex, fragmented land-use patches. The extent and density of urbanized …
Early efforts in wildlife management focused on reducing population variability and maximizing yields of selected species. Later, Aldo Leopold proposed the concept of habitat …