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Abbott, James G., Campbell, Lisa M., Hay, Clinton J., Naesje, Tor F., and Purvis, John. 2007. Market-resource links and fish vendor livelihoods in the upper zambezi river floodplains. Human Ecology 35:559-574. Author's Keywords: livelihoods, markets, sub-saharan africa, artisanal fisheries, floodplains ACSC Keywords: management, conservation, africa, community, strategies, Ghana, dynamics, small-scale fisheries, diversification, Lake Chad
Arce-Nazario, Javier A. 2007. Human landscapes have complex trajectories: Reconstructing Peruvian Amazon landscape history from 1948 to 2005. Landscape Ecology 22:89-101. Author's Keywords: deforestation, Amazon, landscape history, Floodplain dynamics, Iquitos ACSC Keywords: peru
Campbell, MO. 2005. Sacred groves for forest conservation in Ghana's coastal savannas: Assessing ecological and social dimensions. SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF TROPICAL GEOGRAPHY 26:151-169. Author's Keywords: conservation, remnant forest, sacred grove, tree stand, woodlot, coastal savanna ACSC Keywords: history, India, landscapes, dynamics, society, transition, west africa, DISTRICT, ZONE, managment
Cash, David W., Adger, W. Neil, Berkes, Fikret, Garden, Po, Lebel, Louis, Olsson, Per, Pritchard, Lowell, and Young, Oran. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11. ACSC Keywords: scale, management, politics, social-ecological systems, comanagement, science, networks, co-management, global change, boundary, level, cross-scale dynamics, boundary organization
Drechsler, Martin and Wissel, Christian. 1998. Trade-offs between local and regional scale management of metapopulations. Biological Conservation 83:31-41. Author's Keywords: conservation management, fragmentation, metapopulation dynamics, population viability analysis, stochasticity
Folke, C., Pritchard, L., Berkes, F., Colding, J., and Svedin, U. 2007. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: Ten years later. Ecology and Society 12:-. ACSC Keywords: scale, management, history, resilience, social-ecological systems, dynamics, land-cover change, coral-reefs, adaptive comanagement, regime shifts
Haila, Yrjo. 2002. Scaling environmental issues: Problems and paradoxes. Landscape and Urban Planning 61:59-69. Author's Keywords: scaling, environmental issues, non-linear dynamics, socio-ecological dynamics, analog models ACSC Keywords: scale, boundaries
Hobbs, N. T. 2003. Challenges and opportunities in integrating ecological knowledge across scales. Forest Ecology and Management 181:223-238. Author's Keywords: scale, resource management, adaptive management, heterogeneity, ungulate, model selection ACSC Keywords: black-tailed deer, spatially heterogeneous environments, plant-herbivore interactions, yellowstone-national-park, ideal-free-distribution, functional-response, pacific-northwest, foraging efficiency, population-dynamics
Kihiyo, V. B. M. and George C. Kajembe. 2000. "The Tanzanian Ujamaa Policy: Its Impact on Community-based Forest Management," in Community-Based Forest Resource Management in East Africa. Edited by W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe and A. Y. Banana, pp. 34-48. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda Forestry Resources and Institutions Centre (UFRIC). Author's Keywords: environment, forestry, Tanzania, environmental change, Forest resources, IFRI, Ujamaa policy, community-based forest management, institutional dynamics
Leach, Melissa. 2001. Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: Challenges for local forest management. Governance and Ecology 1:223-242. Author's Keywords: institutions, community, forest, co-management, west africa, dynamic landscapes, ecological dynamics, pluralism, Republic of Guinea, social differentiation
Maki, Sanna, Kalliola, Risto, and Vuorinen, Kai. 2001. Road construction in the Peruvian Amazon: Process, causes and consequences. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 28:199-214. Author's Keywords: deforestation, peru, Amazon, land use planning, rain forest, road construction ACSC Keywords: sustainable development, rain-forest, dynamics, patterns, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA, ECUADORIAN AMAZON, MELASTOMATACEAE
Mbile, P., Vabi, M., Meboka, M., Okon, D., Arrey-Mbo, J., Nkongho, F., and Ebong, E. 2005. Linking management and livelihood in environmental conservation: Case of the Korup National Park Cameroon. Journal of Environmental Management 76:1-13. Author's Keywords: adaptive management, livelihoods, protected area ACSC Keywords: ecosystem management, dynamics, ecological knowledge
McCusker, Brent. 2004. Land use and cover change as an indicator of transformation on recently redistributed farms in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Human Ecology 32:49-75. Author's Keywords: South Africa, land use change, land reform, communal property associations, limpopo province ACSC Keywords: common property, ecology, africa, deforestation, Uganda, livelihood, land use, dynamics, land tenure, population-growth, climate, forces, Limpopo
McDonald-Madden, E., Baxter, P. W. J., and Possingham, H. P. 2008. Making robust decisions for conservation with restricted money and knowledge. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:1630-1638. Author's Keywords: management, biology, uncertainty, design, population-dynamics, decision theory, RESOURCE allocation, MODEL, reserve networks, conservation funding, info-gap, model uncertainty, Sumatran tiger, triage, uncertainty analysis, viability, inference
Muller, Daniel and Munroe, Darla K. 2005. Tradeoffs between rural development policies and forest protection: Spatially explicit modeling in the central highlands of Vietnam. Land Economics 81:412-425. ACSC Keywords: deforestation, economics, brazilian amazon, systems, dynamics, Vietnam, land-use change, roads, satellite
Ohl-Schacherer, Julia, Shepard, Glenn H., Jr., Kaplan, Hillard, Peres, Carlos A., Levi, Taal, and Yu, Douglas W. 2007. The Sustainability of subsistence hunting by Matsigenka native communities in Manu National Park, Peru. Conservation Biology 21:1174-1185. Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, indigenous rights, subsistence hunting, peru, biodiversity conservation, bushmeat, Source-sink dynamics, human-inhabited protected areas, manu national park, protected-area management, wild meat ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, forests, dispersal, Indigenous reserves, MODEL, neotropics, south-eastern amazonia, density
Ostrom, E. 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:15181-15187. Author's Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary research, governance, collective action, forest management, community, social-ecological systems, complexity, commons, resources, systems, dynamics, Sustainability science, diagnostic model
Penny, Dan. 2006. The Holocene history and development of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:310-322. ACSC Keywords: population-dynamics, thailand, record, climate-change, asian southwest monsoon, mekong river delta, southern vietnam, radiocarbon calibration, late pleistocene, pollen
Peres, C. A. and Nascimento, H. S. 2006. Impact of game hunting by the Kayapo of south-eastern Amazonia: implications for wildlife conservation in tropical forest indigenous reserves. Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (8):2627-2653. Author's Keywords: hunting, amazonia, bushmeat, Exploitation, Forest resources, Game management, Indigenous reserves, Source-sink dynamics
Redman, Charles L. and Kinzig, Ann P. 2003. Resilience of past landscapes: Resilience theory, society, and the Longue Duree. Conservation Ecology 7:-. ACSC Keywords: management, environment, resilience, complexity, dynamics, patterns, settlement, adaptive capacity, mesopotamian civilization, collapse, impact, view, spatial scale, temporal scale, Classic Period Hohokam
Salo, Matti and Pyhala, Aili. 2007. Exploring the gap between conservation science and protected area establishment in the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve (Peruvian Amazonia). Environmental Conservation 34:23-32. Author's Keywords: amazonia, peru, tropical forest, stakeholder perceptions, sustainable use, tropical forest conservation, protected area establishment ACSC Keywords: deforestation, paradigm, biodiversity conservation, diversity, dynamics, EDAPHIC HETEROGENEITY, WESTERN AMAZON, SQUARE WHEEL, THAMNOPHILIDAE
Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. Arturo, Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan Andres, and Boomhower, Judson P. 2007. Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: Intention, implementation, and impact. Conservation Biology 21:1165-1173. Author's Keywords: Costa Rica, deforestation trends, ecosystems services, payment for environmental services, psa ACSC Keywords: conservation, dynamics, national-parks, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, osa peninsula, forest change
Sandker, Marieke, Suwarno, Aritta, and Campbell, Bruce M. 2007. Will forests remain in the face of oil palm expansion? Simulating change in Malinau, Indonesia. Ecology and Society 12:-. Author's Keywords: decentralization, livelihoods, forest cover, district revenue, landscape dynamics, oil palm, participatory model, primary forest ACSC Keywords: conservation
Schwartz, Mark W. 1999. Choosing the appropriate scale of reserves for conservation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:83-108. Author's Keywords: ecosystem management, reserve selection, endangered species act, fine-filter, coarse-filter ACSC Keywords: united-states, population-dynamics, biodiversity hotspots, large carnivore conservation, coastal southern california, red-cockaded woodpecker, longleaf pine, fragmented habitats, species management
Thiha, Webb, Edward L., and Honda, Kiyoshi. 2007. Biophysical and policy drivers of landscape change in a central Vietnamese district. Environmental Conservation 34:164-172. Author's Keywords: conservation, deforestation, land use, policy analysis, forest land allocation, nam dong ACSC Keywords: population, southeast-asia, Nepal, forest, Vietnam, land-cover-change, SATELLITE IMAGERY, yucatan peninsular region, use dynamics, change trajectories
Turner, Monica G., Gardner, Robert H., and Oneill, R. V. 1995. Ecological dynamics at broad scales. Bioscience :S29-S35. ACSC Keywords: ecosystem, landscape, Vegetation, environments, population-dynamics, Serengeti, boreal forest, yellowstone fires, isle-royale, moose
Vezina, Karine, Bonn, Ferdinand, and Van, Cu Pham. 2006. Agricultural land-use patterns and soil erosion vulnerability of watershed units in Vietnam's northern highlands. Landscape Ecology 21:1311-1325. Author's Keywords: GIS, Tropical environment, Watershed, Erosion dynamics, Scaling in space and time ACSC Keywords: Vietnam
Whitman, Karyl L., Starfield, Anthony M., Quadling, Henley, and Packer, Craig. 2007. Modeling the effects of trophy selection and environmental disturbance on a simulated population of African lions. Conservation Biology 21:591-601. Author's Keywords: Serengeti, sustainable use, trophy hunting, population model, lion harvest, panthera leo, population viability ACSC Keywords: conservation, conflict, extinction, dynamics, carnivores, density, serengeti lions, infanticide, wolves
Willig, Michael R., Presley, Steven J., Bloch, Christopher P., Hice, Christine L., Yanoviak, Stephen P., Díaz, M. Mónica, Chauca, Lily Arias, Pacheco, Victor, and Weaver, Scott C. 2007. Phyllostomid bats of lowland Amazonia: Effects of habitat alteration on abundance. Biotropica 39:737-746. Author's Keywords: conservation, deforestation, anthropogenic change, habitat use, amazonian rain forest, lowland, neotropical bat biodiversity, population dynamics, seasonal dynamics ACSC Keywords: diversity, species richness, community structure, Peruvian Amazon, tropical rain-forest, carollia-perspicillata, foraging behavior, frugivorous bat, competitive interactions, fragmented landscape
Zimmerer, Karl S. 2000. The reworking of conservation geographies: Nonequilibrium landscapes and nature-society hybrids. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90:356-369. ACSC Keywords: management, ecology, community, politics, environment, Bolivia, Vegetation, dynamics, erosion, livestock

Citation

Abbott, James G., Campbell, Lisa M., Hay, Clinton J., Naesje, Tor F., and Purvis, John. 2007. Market-resource links and fish vendor livelihoods in the upper zambezi river floodplains. Human Ecology 35:559-574.

Author's Keywords: livelihoods, markets, sub-saharan africa, artisanal fisheries, floodplains

ACSC Keywords: management, conservation, africa, community, strategies, Ghana, dynamics, small-scale fisheries, diversification, Lake Chad

Arce-Nazario, Javier A. 2007. Human landscapes have complex trajectories: Reconstructing Peruvian Amazon landscape history from 1948 to 2005. Landscape Ecology 22:89-101.

Author's Keywords: deforestation, Amazon, landscape history, Floodplain dynamics, Iquitos

ACSC Keywords: peru

Campbell, MO. 2005. Sacred groves for forest conservation in Ghana's coastal savannas: Assessing ecological and social dimensions. SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF TROPICAL GEOGRAPHY 26:151-169.

Author's Keywords: conservation, remnant forest, sacred grove, tree stand, woodlot, coastal savanna

ACSC Keywords: history, India, landscapes, dynamics, society, transition, west africa, DISTRICT, ZONE, managment

Cash, David W., Adger, W. Neil, Berkes, Fikret, Garden, Po, Lebel, Louis, Olsson, Per, Pritchard, Lowell, and Young, Oran. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11.

ACSC Keywords: scale, management, politics, social-ecological systems, comanagement, science, networks, co-management, global change, boundary, level, cross-scale dynamics, boundary organization

Drechsler, Martin and Wissel, Christian. 1998. Trade-offs between local and regional scale management of metapopulations. Biological Conservation 83:31-41.

Author's Keywords: conservation management, fragmentation, metapopulation dynamics, population viability analysis, stochasticity

Folke, C., Pritchard, L., Berkes, F., Colding, J., and Svedin, U. 2007. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: Ten years later. Ecology and Society 12:-.

ACSC Keywords: scale, management, history, resilience, social-ecological systems, dynamics, land-cover change, coral-reefs, adaptive comanagement, regime shifts

Haila, Yrjo. 2002. Scaling environmental issues: Problems and paradoxes. Landscape and Urban Planning 61:59-69.

Author's Keywords: scaling, environmental issues, non-linear dynamics, socio-ecological dynamics, analog models

ACSC Keywords: scale, boundaries

Hobbs, N. T. 2003. Challenges and opportunities in integrating ecological knowledge across scales. Forest Ecology and Management 181:223-238.

Author's Keywords: scale, resource management, adaptive management, heterogeneity, ungulate, model selection

ACSC Keywords: black-tailed deer, spatially heterogeneous environments, plant-herbivore interactions, yellowstone-national-park, ideal-free-distribution, functional-response, pacific-northwest, foraging efficiency, population-dynamics

Kihiyo, V. B. M. and George C. Kajembe. 2000. "The Tanzanian Ujamaa Policy: Its Impact on Community-based Forest Management," in Community-Based Forest Resource Management in East Africa. Edited by W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe and A. Y. Banana, pp. 34-48. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda Forestry Resources and Institutions Centre (UFRIC).

Author's Keywords: environment, forestry, Tanzania, environmental change, Forest resources, IFRI, Ujamaa policy, community-based forest management, institutional dynamics

Leach, Melissa. 2001. Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: Challenges for local forest management. Governance and Ecology 1:223-242.

Author's Keywords: institutions, community, forest, co-management, west africa, dynamic landscapes, ecological dynamics, pluralism, Republic of Guinea, social differentiation

Maki, Sanna, Kalliola, Risto, and Vuorinen, Kai. 2001. Road construction in the Peruvian Amazon: Process, causes and consequences. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 28:199-214.

Author's Keywords: deforestation, peru, Amazon, land use planning, rain forest, road construction

ACSC Keywords: sustainable development, rain-forest, dynamics, patterns, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA, ECUADORIAN AMAZON, MELASTOMATACEAE

Mbile, P., Vabi, M., Meboka, M., Okon, D., Arrey-Mbo, J., Nkongho, F., and Ebong, E. 2005. Linking management and livelihood in environmental conservation: Case of the Korup National Park Cameroon. Journal of Environmental Management 76:1-13.

Author's Keywords: adaptive management, livelihoods, protected area

ACSC Keywords: ecosystem management, dynamics, ecological knowledge

McCusker, Brent. 2004. Land use and cover change as an indicator of transformation on recently redistributed farms in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Human Ecology 32:49-75.

Author's Keywords: South Africa, land use change, land reform, communal property associations, limpopo province

ACSC Keywords: common property, ecology, africa, deforestation, Uganda, livelihood, land use, dynamics, land tenure, population-growth, climate, forces, Limpopo

McDonald-Madden, E., Baxter, P. W. J., and Possingham, H. P. 2008. Making robust decisions for conservation with restricted money and knowledge. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:1630-1638.

Author's Keywords: management, biology, uncertainty, design, population-dynamics, decision theory, RESOURCE allocation, MODEL, reserve networks, conservation funding, info-gap, model uncertainty, Sumatran tiger, triage, uncertainty analysis, viability, inference

Muller, Daniel and Munroe, Darla K. 2005. Tradeoffs between rural development policies and forest protection: Spatially explicit modeling in the central highlands of Vietnam. Land Economics 81:412-425.

ACSC Keywords: deforestation, economics, brazilian amazon, systems, dynamics, Vietnam, land-use change, roads, satellite

Ohl-Schacherer, Julia, Shepard, Glenn H., Jr., Kaplan, Hillard, Peres, Carlos A., Levi, Taal, and Yu, Douglas W. 2007. The Sustainability of subsistence hunting by Matsigenka native communities in Manu National Park, Peru. Conservation Biology 21:1174-1185.

Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, indigenous rights, subsistence hunting, peru, biodiversity conservation, bushmeat, Source-sink dynamics, human-inhabited protected areas, manu national park, protected-area management, wild meat

ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, forests, dispersal, Indigenous reserves, MODEL, neotropics, south-eastern amazonia, density

Ostrom, E. 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:15181-15187.

Author's Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary research, governance, collective action, forest management, community, social-ecological systems, complexity, commons, resources, systems, dynamics, Sustainability science, diagnostic model

Penny, Dan. 2006. The Holocene history and development of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:310-322.

ACSC Keywords: population-dynamics, thailand, record, climate-change, asian southwest monsoon, mekong river delta, southern vietnam, radiocarbon calibration, late pleistocene, pollen

Peres, C. A. and Nascimento, H. S. 2006. Impact of game hunting by the Kayapo of south-eastern Amazonia: implications for wildlife conservation in tropical forest indigenous reserves. Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (8):2627-2653.

Author's Keywords: hunting, amazonia, bushmeat, Exploitation, Forest resources, Game management, Indigenous reserves, Source-sink dynamics

Redman, Charles L. and Kinzig, Ann P. 2003. Resilience of past landscapes: Resilience theory, society, and the Longue Duree. Conservation Ecology 7:-.

ACSC Keywords: management, environment, resilience, complexity, dynamics, patterns, settlement, adaptive capacity, mesopotamian civilization, collapse, impact, view, spatial scale, temporal scale, Classic Period Hohokam

Salo, Matti and Pyhala, Aili. 2007. Exploring the gap between conservation science and protected area establishment in the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve (Peruvian Amazonia). Environmental Conservation 34:23-32.

Author's Keywords: amazonia, peru, tropical forest, stakeholder perceptions, sustainable use, tropical forest conservation, protected area establishment

ACSC Keywords: deforestation, paradigm, biodiversity conservation, diversity, dynamics, EDAPHIC HETEROGENEITY, WESTERN AMAZON, SQUARE WHEEL, THAMNOPHILIDAE

Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. Arturo, Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan Andres, and Boomhower, Judson P. 2007. Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: Intention, implementation, and impact. Conservation Biology 21:1165-1173.

Author's Keywords: Costa Rica, deforestation trends, ecosystems services, payment for environmental services, psa

ACSC Keywords: conservation, dynamics, national-parks, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, osa peninsula, forest change

Sandker, Marieke, Suwarno, Aritta, and Campbell, Bruce M. 2007. Will forests remain in the face of oil palm expansion? Simulating change in Malinau, Indonesia. Ecology and Society 12:-.

Author's Keywords: decentralization, livelihoods, forest cover, district revenue, landscape dynamics, oil palm, participatory model, primary forest

ACSC Keywords: conservation

Schwartz, Mark W. 1999. Choosing the appropriate scale of reserves for conservation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:83-108.

Author's Keywords: ecosystem management, reserve selection, endangered species act, fine-filter, coarse-filter

ACSC Keywords: united-states, population-dynamics, biodiversity hotspots, large carnivore conservation, coastal southern california, red-cockaded woodpecker, longleaf pine, fragmented habitats, species management

Thiha, Webb, Edward L., and Honda, Kiyoshi. 2007. Biophysical and policy drivers of landscape change in a central Vietnamese district. Environmental Conservation 34:164-172.

Author's Keywords: conservation, deforestation, land use, policy analysis, forest land allocation, nam dong

ACSC Keywords: population, southeast-asia, Nepal, forest, Vietnam, land-cover-change, SATELLITE IMAGERY, yucatan peninsular region, use dynamics, change trajectories

Turner, Monica G., Gardner, Robert H., and Oneill, R. V. 1995. Ecological dynamics at broad scales. Bioscience :S29-S35.

ACSC Keywords: ecosystem, landscape, Vegetation, environments, population-dynamics, Serengeti, boreal forest, yellowstone fires, isle-royale, moose

Vezina, Karine, Bonn, Ferdinand, and Van, Cu Pham. 2006. Agricultural land-use patterns and soil erosion vulnerability of watershed units in Vietnam's northern highlands. Landscape Ecology 21:1311-1325.

Author's Keywords: GIS, Tropical environment, Watershed, Erosion dynamics, Scaling in space and time

ACSC Keywords: Vietnam

Whitman, Karyl L., Starfield, Anthony M., Quadling, Henley, and Packer, Craig. 2007. Modeling the effects of trophy selection and environmental disturbance on a simulated population of African lions. Conservation Biology 21:591-601.

Author's Keywords: Serengeti, sustainable use, trophy hunting, population model, lion harvest, panthera leo, population viability

ACSC Keywords: conservation, conflict, extinction, dynamics, carnivores, density, serengeti lions, infanticide, wolves

Willig, Michael R., Presley, Steven J., Bloch, Christopher P., Hice, Christine L., Yanoviak, Stephen P., Díaz, M. Mónica, Chauca, Lily Arias, Pacheco, Victor, and Weaver, Scott C. 2007. Phyllostomid bats of lowland Amazonia: Effects of habitat alteration on abundance. Biotropica 39:737-746.

Author's Keywords: conservation, deforestation, anthropogenic change, habitat use, amazonian rain forest, lowland, neotropical bat biodiversity, population dynamics, seasonal dynamics

ACSC Keywords: diversity, species richness, community structure, Peruvian Amazon, tropical rain-forest, carollia-perspicillata, foraging behavior, frugivorous bat, competitive interactions, fragmented landscape

Zimmerer, Karl S. 2000. The reworking of conservation geographies: Nonequilibrium landscapes and nature-society hybrids. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90:356-369.

ACSC Keywords: management, ecology, community, politics, environment, Bolivia, Vegetation, dynamics, erosion, livestock