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| DOI | 10.1111/ele.12717 |
| Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology | |
| Rose K.C.; Graves R.A.; Hansen W.D.; Harvey B.J.; Qiu J.; Wood S.A.; Ziter C.; Turner M.G. | |
| 发表日期 | 2017 |
| ISSN | 1461-023X |
| EISSN | 1461-0248 |
| 卷号 | 20期号:2 |
| 英文摘要 | Macrosystems ecology is an effort to understand ecological processes and interactions at the broadest spatial scales and has potential to help solve globally important social and ecological challenges. It is important to understand the intellectual legacies underpinning macrosystems ecology: How the subdiscipline fits within, builds upon, differs from and extends previous theories. We trace the rise of macrosystems ecology with respect to preceding theories and present a new hypothesis that integrates the multiple components of macrosystems theory. The spatio-temporal anthropogenic rescaling (STAR) hypothesis suggests that human activities are altering the scales of ecological processes, resulting in interactions at novel space–time scale combinations that are diverse and predictable. We articulate four predictions about how human actions are “expanding”, “shrinking”, “speeding up” and “slowing down” ecological processes and interactions, and thereby generating new scaling relationships for ecological patterns and processes. We provide examples of these rescaling processes and describe ecological consequences across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Rescaling depends in part on characteristics including connectivity, stability and heterogeneity. Our STAR hypothesis challenges traditional assumptions about how the spatial and temporal scales of processes and interactions operate in different types of ecosystems and provides a lens through which to understand macrosystem-scale environmental change. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS |
| 英文关键词 | Hierarchy theory; landscape ecology; macrosystems ecology; space–time; spatio-temporal |
| 学科领域 | freshwater ecosystem; future prospect; global perspective; hierarchical system; historical perspective; human activity; landscape ecology; macroecology; marine ecosystem; spatiotemporal analysis; terrestrial ecosystem; theoretical study; ecology; history; human; human activities; trends; Ecology; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Human Activities; Humans |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | freshwater ecosystem; future prospect; global perspective; hierarchical system; historical perspective; human activity; landscape ecology; macroecology; marine ecosystem; spatiotemporal analysis; terrestrial ecosystem; theoretical study; ecology; history; human; human activities; trends; Ecology; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Human Activities; Humans |
| 来源期刊 | Ecology Letters
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118438 |
| 作者单位 | Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12309, United States; Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, United States; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rose K.C.,Graves R.A.,Hansen W.D.,et al. Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology[J],2017,20(2). |
| APA | Rose K.C..,Graves R.A..,Hansen W.D..,Harvey B.J..,Qiu J..,...&Turner M.G..(2017).Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology.Ecology Letters,20(2). |
| MLA | Rose K.C.,et al."Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology".Ecology Letters 20.2(2017). |
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