Ecological palaeoecology and conservation biology: controversies, challenges, and compromises
Ecological palaeoecology and conservation biology: controversies, challenges, and compromises
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10.1080/21513732.2012.701667
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2012-12-01
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Birks, H. John B.
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Birks, H. John B.
直到最近，生态古生态学(长期生态学的一部分)和保护生物学被认为是两个独立的学科，彼此几乎没有相关性。随着20世纪60年代至90年代保护生物学的描述和评估转向90年代末的“在快速变化的世界中进行保护”的范式，自然资源保护者开始意识到时间维度在制定保护策略以适应景观和生态系统变化方面的重要性。尽管这种范式发生了转变，生态古生态学在很大程度上仍然被保护生物学忽视。我探讨了为什么会这样，并概述了与保护科学直接相关的主题的最新进展。我提出了九个对保护至关重要的问题，古生态学可以回答。在保护生物学和古生态学的蜜月期，不可避免地存在争议、挑战和妥协。我概述了这些，并建议如何通过打破景观历史、文化历史、保护和古生态之间的主要人为边界，以及认识到面对不断变化的土地利用、环境和景观，所有这些都可以为我们理解人与自然和保护做出重要贡献，来克服其中的一些问题。
Until recently, ecological palaeoecology (a part of long-term ecology) and conservation biology were considered two separate subjects with little relevance to each other. With the shift from description and evaluation in conservation biology in the 1960s-1990s to the paradigm of 'conservation in a rapidly changing world' in the late 1990s, conservationists began to realise the importance of the temporal dimension in developing conservation strategies to allow for landscape and ecosystem change.Despite this paradigm shift, ecological palaeoecology is still largely ignored by conservation biology. I explore why this may be and outline recent advances in the subject of direct relevance to conservation science. I present nine questions of critical importance to conservation that palaeoecology can answer.Inevitably during this honeymoon phase of conservation biology and palaeoecology, there are controversies, challenges, and compromises. I outline these and suggest how some can be overcome by breakdown of the largely artificial boundaries between landscape history, cultural history, conservation, and palaeoecology, and by the appreciation that all can make important contributions to our understanding of people and nature and conservation in the face of changing land-use, environment, and landscapes.