Balancing multiple management objectives as climate change transforms ecosystems

Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Dec 4:S0169-5347(23)00297-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.003. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAs climate change facilitates significant and persistent ecological transformations, managing ecosystems according to historical baseline conditions may no longer be feasible. The Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework can guide climate-informed management interventions, but in its current implementations RAD has not yet fully accounted for potential tradeoffs between multiple - sometimes incompatible - ecological and societal goals. Key scientific challenges for informing climate-adapted ecosystem management include (i) advancing our predictive understanding of transformations and their socioecological impacts under novel climate conditions, and (ii) incorporating uncertainty around trajectories of ecological change and the potential success of RAD interventions into management decisions. To promote the implementation of RAD, practitioners can account for diverse objectives within just and equitable participatory decision-making processes.PMID:38052686 | DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.003

Source: Trends in Ecology and Evolution - December 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Katherine J Siegel Kyle C Cavanaugh Laura E Dee Source Type: research