Ecosystems, Ecosystem Processes and Global Change: Implications for Landscape Design

Manning, Adrian D.

doi:10.1002/9780470692400.ch30

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“…Landscape fluidity is a refinement of an idea first presented as part of a talk at a workshop in Bowral, Australia, in March 2006 (Manning, 2007). Thanks to Robert Whittaker, Kate Parr and two anonymous referees for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript and to Henry Nix for comments and discussion during the development of this concept.…”

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Landscape fluidity – a unifying perspective for understanding and adapting to global change

Manning¹,

Fischer

Felton

et al. 2009

Journal of Biogeography

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Rapid, human‐induced global change presents major challenges to researchers, policy‐makers and land managers. Addressing these challenges requires an appreciation of the dynamics of ecological systems. Here, we propose ‘landscape fluidity’ as a perspective and research agenda from which to consider landscapes in the process of changing rapidly through both time and space. We define landscape fluidity as the ebb and flow of different organisms within a landscape through time. A range of existing ideas, themes and practical approaches are relevant to landscape fluidity, and we use a case study of scattered tree landscapes in south‐eastern Australia to illustrate the benefits of a landscape fluidity perspective. We suggest that a focus on landscape fluidity can bring a renewed emphasis on change in landscapes and so help unify a range of currently separate research themes in biogeography, ecology, palaeoecology and conservation biology.

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