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ESA on “ E arth Stewardship”

ESA on “ E arth Stewardship”. http://www.esa.org/earthstewardship/ Science-based - Ecosystem resilience and human well-being. ESA Meetings: Plenary Themes. 2007 – Ecological Restoration 2008 – Research and Education 2009 – A Global Sustainable Society 2010 – Global Warming

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ESA on “ E arth Stewardship”

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  1. ESA on “Earth Stewardship” http://www.esa.org/earthstewardship/ Science-based - Ecosystem resilience and human well-being

  2. ESA Meetings: Plenary Themes 2007 – Ecological Restoration 2008 – Research and Education 2009 – A Global Sustainable Society 2010 – Global Warming 2011 – Earth Stewardship 2012 – Utilizing and Sustaining Ecosystems Emerging Issues Conferences

  3. ESA and Earth Stewardship Collaboration: Ecology, Climate Science, Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Environmental Sciences & Social Sciences • Clarify What Science Is Needed • Communicate Stewardship to Broad Audience • Formulate Strategies, Answer Problems

  4. ESA and Earth Stewardship Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) http://www.esa.org/science_resources/publications/sbiReport.php “Research Agenda” “Basic research is foundation for environmental decisions” Suggest Priorities for Funding

  5. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: What are the patterns of diversity in nature, and what are their critical ecological and evolutionary determinants? What abiotic patterns/biotic processes promote (or diminish) species diversity? (BIO 563 on evolution?)

  6. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: How do morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits of organisms interact? Anatomy, physiology and the niche Behavioral ecology (evolutionary ecology of behavior) …

  7. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: How plastic are the morphology, physiology, and behavior of organisms in the face of environmental stresses? What are organisms' proximal limitations? Ecological genetics, Response to anthropogenic change

  8. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: What factors explain the life history adaptations of organisms? What are the population-level consequences of these adaptations? Adaptive dynamics Population dynamics exert selection pressures, drive evolution of birth/death rates. Birth/death rates, in turn, govern population dynamics.

  9. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: What factors control the sizes of populations? How are changes in population size related to processes mediated at the level of the individual? Population regulation; Linking local processes to patterns of ensemble

  10. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: How does fragmentation of the landscape affect the spread and persistence of populations? Species Area Relationship Dispersal/Landscape Connectivity Metapopulations

  11. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: What are the feedbacks between the biotic and abiotic portions of ecosystems and landscapes? How do climatic, anthropogenic, and biotic processes regulate biogeochemical processes? Ecosystems: Flow of Energy, Materials

  12. Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (1991) Intellectual Frontiers: How do patterns and processes at one spatial or temporal scale affect those at other scales? • Spatial models • Temporal variation • Spatial models in temporally varying environment

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