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Ecology Letters - more constructive dialogue

Ecology Letters - How policy makers and ecologists can develop a more constructive dialogue to save the planet

An international consensus demands human impacts on the environment “sustain”, “maintain”, “conserve”, “protect”, “safeguard”, and “secure” it, keeping it within “safe ecological limits”. A new study that assembled an international team of environmental scientists shows that policy makers have little idea what these terms mean or how to connect them to a wealth of ecological data and ideas. Progress on protecting our planet requires us to dispel this confusion, and the researchers have produced a framework to do just that.

 “Human actions challenge nature in many ways. We lump these into a grab-bag of ideas we call ecological stability. We want nature to be stable in some sense of that word. But what do we know about stability from our theories and experiments? And how can that knowledge help policy makers? We offer some solutions to these important questions.” said Jose M. Montoya, co-leader of this study at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, one of the unit of the LabEx TULIP.

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Article citation

“Navigating the complexity of ecological stability” by Ian Donohue, Helmut Hillebrand, José M. Montoya, Owen L. Petchey, Stuart L. Pimm, Mike S. Fowler, Kevin Healy, Andrew L. Jackson, Miguel Lurgi, Deirdre McClean, Nessa E. O’Connor, Eoin J. O’Gorman and Qiang Yang Ecology Letters (2016) online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12648

Modification date : 06 June 2023 | Publication date : 26 July 2016 | Redactor : TULIP Communication & MONTOYA José