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ERS 422

Biosphere Reserves as Social-Ecological Systems

Undergraduate

Winter 2019

Topics

  • Biosphere reserves
  • Social–ecological systems
  • Resilience
  • Ecosystem health indicators
  • Monitoring
  • Field study

Readings

  • Folke, C.; Berkes, F.; Colding, J. (1998). Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability. In Linking Social and Ecological Systems, pp. 414–436.
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  • Cairns, J. et al. (1993). A proposed framework for developing indicators of ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 236(1), 1–44.
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  • Niemi, G. J.; McDonald, M. E. (2004). Application of ecological indicators. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35, 89–111.
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  • Cvetkovic, M.; Chow-Fraser, P. (2011). Use of ecological indicators to assess the quality of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Ecological Indicators 11, 1609–1622.
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