ENSC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biocoenosis, Systems Theory, Ecosystem Services
30 Oct 2017
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Involves an ethic of use (cid:894)i(cid:374)dire(cid:272)t, dire(cid:272)t, et(cid:272) (cid:895), but with views towards long-term protection of that resource: also relates to the efficient use and decreased consumption of resources (e. g. to conserve) Preservation: maintenance of nature in its natural state, untouched by human development, absence of consumption resource use. Integrated multidisciplinary scientific field that has developed in response to challenge of preserving biodiversity: documents biodiversity. Bio/ecological integrity: native species populations in their historic variety and numbers naturally interacting in naturally structured biotic communities. Ecological restoration: the process of returning, as nearly as possible, a biotic community to a condition of bio/ecological integrity, rapidily growing field, studies a lot of processes about how we might go about restoring ecosystems, ex. Fire is a natural source in many ecosystems reintroducing fire to ecosystems for ecosystem restoration. Ecosystem health: the occurrence of normal ecosystem processes and function, ecosystems are healthy when linked processes occur as they did historically.
