Towards an applied metaecology

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

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Miguel G. Matias¹  José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho²  Diego P. Vázquez³  Shawn J. Leroux⁴  Jennifer G. Howeth⁵  Renata Pardini⁶  Cecile H. Albert⁷  Renato Mendes Coutinho⁸  Carla Morsello⁹  Valério D. Pillar¹⁰  Daniel J.G. Lahr¹⁰  Mar Cabeza¹¹  Luis Schiesari¹²  Pedro R. Peres-Neto¹²  Pedro H.S. Brancalion¹³  Thomas M. Lewinsohn¹⁴  Tadeu Siqueira¹⁴  Mathew A. Leibold¹⁴  Ayana Martins¹⁵  Bertrand Fournier¹⁶  Paulo Inácio Prado¹⁷ 

[1] Corresponding author.;

[2] Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, Brazil;

[3] Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;

[4] Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA;

[5] Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;

[6] Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, NL, Canada;

[7] Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA;

[8] Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;

[9] Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Center of Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland;

[10] Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada;

[11] Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil;

[12] Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;

[13] Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil;

[14] Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;

[15] Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil;

[16] Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil;

[17] Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain;

关键词: Ecology;    Applied ecology;    Conservation;    Metapopulation;    Metacommunity;    Metaecosystem;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The complexity of ecological systems is a major challenge for practitioners and decision-makers who work to avoid, mitigate and manage environmental change. Here, we illustrate how metaecology – the study of spatial interdependencies among ecological systems through fluxes of organisms, energy, and matter – can enhance understanding and improve managing environmental change at multiple spatial scales. We present several case studies illustrating how the framework has leveraged decision-making in conservation, restoration and risk management. Nevertheless, an explicit incorporation of metaecology is still uncommon in the applied ecology literature, and in action guidelines addressing environmental change. This is unfortunate because the many facets of environmental change can be framed as modifying spatial context, connectedness and dominant regulating processes - the defining features of metaecological systems. Narrowing the gap between theory and practice will require incorporating system-specific realism in otherwise predominantly conceptual studies, as well as deliberately studying scenarios of environmental change.

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