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Planning is the critical operation that links knowledge of landscape ecology to its successful application on the ground. If we are to make conservation headway, the crucial step of planning must make use of broad-scale spatial relations and predictive principles (e.g., Dramstad et al. 1996). Isolated, local-scale efforts to solve a conservation problem are often rendered ineffective by ecological forces that operate at broad spatial scales and across jurisdictional boundaries. Under these conditions, conservation success depends significantly on two factors: the degree to which information about broad-scale ecological influences is applied, and the extent to which stakeholders act in concert (spatially and temporally) to solve their common problem (see Lambeck 1999). To be effective, these efforts require collaborative planning.
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Gutzwiller, K.J. (2002). Using Broad-Scale Ecological Information in Conservation Planning: Introduction to Section IV. In: Gutzwiller, K.J. (eds) Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0059-5_19
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