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Towards an applied metaecology

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Schiesari, Luis [1] ; Matias, Miguel G. [2] ; Prado, Paulo Inacio [3] ; Leibold, Mathew A. [4] ; Albert, Cecile H. [5] ; Howeth, Jennifer G. [6] ; Leroux, Shawn J. [7] ; Pardini, Renata [3] ; Siqueira, Tadeu [8] ; Brancalion, Pedro H. S. [9] ; Cabeza, Mar [10] ; Coutinho, Renato Mendes [11] ; Felizola Diniz-Filho, Jose Alexandre [12] ; Fournier, Bertrand [13] ; Lahr, Daniel J. G. [3] ; Lewinsohn, Thomas M. [14] ; Martins, Ayana [15] ; Morsello, Carla [1] ; Peres-Neto, Pedro R. [13] ; Pillar, Valerio D. [16] ; Vazquez, Diego P. [17]
Total Authors: 21
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[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Artes Ciencias & Humanidades, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[2] CSIC, Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, Madrid - Spain
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biociencias, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[4] Univ Florida, Dept Biol, Gainesville, FL - USA
[5] McGill Univ, Dept Biol, Montreal, PQ - Canada
[6] Univ Alabama, Dept Biol Sci, Tuscaloosa, AL - USA
[7] Mem Univ Newfoundland, Dept Biol, St John, NF - Canada
[8] Univ Estadual Paulista UNESP, Inst Biociencias, Rio Claro - Brazil
[9] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Super Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba - Brazil
[10] Univ Helsinki, Dept Biosci, Helsinki - Finland
[11] Univ Fed ABC, Ctr Matemat Comp & Cognicao, Santo Andre, SP - Brazil
[12] Univ Fed Goias, Inst Ciencias Biol, Goiania, Go - Brazil
[13] Univ Quebec Montreal, Dept Sci Biol, Montreal, PQ - Canada
[14] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Campinas, SP - Brazil
[15] Eawag Swiss Fed Inst Aquat Sci & Technol, Ctr Ecol Evolut & Biogeochem, Dept Fish Ecol & Evolut, Kastanienbaum - Switzerland
[16] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Dept Ecol, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil
[17] Argentine Inst Dryland Res, Mendoza - Argentina
Total Affiliations: 17
Document type: Review article
Source: PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION; v. 17, n. 4, p. 172-181, OCT-DEC 2019.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

The complexity of ecological systems is a major challenge for practitioners and decision-makers who work to avoid, mitigate and manage environmental change. Here, we illustrate how metaecology - the study of spatial interdependencies among ecological systems through fluxes of organisms, energy, and matter - can enhance understanding and improve managing environmental change at multiple spatial scales. We present several case studies illustrating how the framework has leveraged decision-making in conservation, restoration and risk management. Nevertheless, an explicit incorporation of metaecology is still uncommon in the applied ecology literature, and in action guidelines addressing environmental change. This is unfortunate because the many facets of environmental change can be framed as modifying spatial context, connectedness and dominant regulating processes - the defining features of metaecological systems. Narrowing the gap between theory and practice will require incorporating system-specific realism in otherwise predominantly conceptual studies, as well as deliberately studying scenarios of environmental change. (C) 2019 Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/18790-3 - Environmental effects of the pasture-sugarcane conversion and pasture intensification
Grantee:Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Support Opportunities: Research Program on Global Climate Change - Thematic Grants
FAPESP's process: 15/17984-9 - Applied Meta-Ecology Workshop
Grantee:Luis Cesar Schiesari
Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Scientific Meeting
FAPESP's process: 13/04585-3 - Deciphering the major trends of molecular and morphological evolution in the Amoebozoa
Grantee:Daniel José Galafasse Lahr
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
FAPESP's process: 14/10470-7 - The effect of the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation on speciation
Grantee:Ayana de Brito Martins
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
FAPESP's process: 13/50424-1 - Scaling biodiversity in tropical and boreal streams: implications for diversity mapping and environmental assessment (ScaleBio)
Grantee:Tadeu de Siqueira Barros
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants