Abstract
Ecological objectives relating to sustainability and land management typically focus on maintaining and enhancing biological diversity and ecosystem integrity, objectives that require planning at landscape levels. Nearly all landscapes of sufficient size to address these objectives contain a diversity of landowners, including many private lands. For conservation planning to be effective in these mixed-ownership landscapes, a number of ecological principles and management considerations should be recognized. Ecological objectives need to be addressed in an ecosystem-management context in which social and economic objectives are integrated with ecological objectives. To accomplish this integration, the most effective approach focuses on a coarse filter; an approach that strives to meet ecological objectives through the identification of an appropriate mix of ecological communities correctly configured within the landscape. One effective coarse-filter approach has identified ecological site complexity as well as an understanding of historical disturbance regimes that shaped the inherent diversity and function of the ecological communities. Monitoring effectiveness of coarse-filter planning will need to be hierarchical to address all levels of biological diversity.
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Haufler, J.B., Kernohan, B.J. (2001). Ecological Principles for Land Management Across Mixed Ownerships: Private Land Considerations. In: Dale, V.H., Haeuber, R.A. (eds) Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0099-1_4
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