Abstract
This is an interdisciplinary project aimed at understanding how ecosystem resilience (buffering capacity) in managed landscapes is linked to socio-economic processes driving how natural resources are managed. Biodiversity is viewed as a key natural resource for maintaining ecosystem functioning and thereby ecological resilience. The project examines relationships between management institutions, biodiversity conservation and ecological resilience, and the biological and social mechanisms that contribute to the resilience of ecosystems. The specific goals are: * To examine how biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services like pollination and resilience in selected managed ecosystems. * To identify institutional mechanisms for sustaining resilience and functional diversity. * To examine how the spatial and temporal scales of organism dynamics relate to management practices, in order to identify mismatches between the scales at which biodiversity conservation should be implemented and the scales of planning and management decisions. * To synthesize these results and develop strategies for biodiversity monitoring and management in coupled social-ecological systems.
Sweden