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Identifying ecological thresholds for regulating human activity: Effective conservation or wishful thinking?

2013-12-01

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Increasingly, conservation professionals and regulatory agencies are attempting to identify ecological thresholds that define a point at which populations or communities demonstrate a marked response to human disturbance. Such thresholds may serve as the foundation for recognizing and then imposing limits on the levels of disturbance or types of land use. Although an intuitive concept, I argue that there are numer...

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Literature Corpus work: c98eb239-3e2a-57c9-9da0-dcb2443f794c
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.012

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