Jornal de Ecossistema e Ecografia

Abstrato

Opportunities for Biodiversity Sustainability Founded on Approaches to Ecosystem Stewardship from the US Forest Service and Conservation Biology

Alexander Chow

In order to maintain the integrity of ecosystems, ecosystem management entails long-term management of entire ecosystems across political boundaries as needed. The conservation biology perspective on ecosystem management has a tendency to be biocentric, emphasising maintaining the integrity of native species and natural ecosystem processes. The US Forest Service promotes an anthropocentric strategy in which a range of public choices will determine how much emphasis is placed on natural (biodiversity) and utilitarian (commodities, recreation, etc.) objectives in establishing and maintaining ecosystem integrity.