Management implications
Management
level
Management for sustainability
GIS integration
Management solutions
Managers of fragmented landscapes are facing problems
of large-scale changes in ecosystem processes, loss of habitat and species
decline, and the maintenance of connectivity through corridors across
the landscape.
When land transformation (especially fragmentation)
has occurred, remnant vegetation sits in a vastly altered landscape. In
order to maintain these remnants in altered landscapes, managers have
to be aware of what is happening in the landscape around them. Often the
major problems facing remnants come from outside them. This means that
it is important to do remnant management in the context of overall landscape.
The situation in the wheatbelt
is one common to large parts of the world where need a balance between
conservation and production (Hobbs
et al., 1993). Although land transformation takes on a different form
and structure in the rangelands, similar integrated approaches to management
are needed that manage the landscape features as a whole rather than in
isolation.
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Management rationale and decisions |
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Why is it important to take an integrated approach to land management
that considers the spatial and temporal characteristics of landscapes?
Suggest some management solutions for Kellerberrin and New England. You should share your ideas in the discussion forum (refer to the
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McIntyre, S. (1994). Integrating agricultural land-use and management for conservation of a native grassland flora in a variegated landscape | |
