Ecosystems are self-regulating systems that provide societies with food, water, timber, and
other resources. As demands for resources increase, management decisions are replacing …

This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and
variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central concepts, benefits, and limitations …

The history of landscape quality assessment has featured a contest between expert and
perception-based approaches, paralleling a long-standing debate in the philosophy of …

Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of
ecosystems. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the dynamic nature of …

Ecosystem ecologists traditionally have focused their attention on direct interactions among
species, particularly those interactions that control flows of energy and materials among …

The purpose of this paper is to promote a broad and flexible perspective on ecological
restoration of Southwestern (US) ponderosa pine forests. Ponderosa pine forests in the …

Natural resource managers have used natural variability concepts since the early 1960s and
are increasingly relying on these concepts to maintain biological diversity, to restore …

The fire disturbance regime and forest structure prior to Euro‐American settlement (AD
1883) of a southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) landscape were quantified in …

Fire-scar chronologies from a network of 63 sites in the Southwestern United States are
listed and described. These data characterize the natural range and variability of fire …