scholarly journals Invasion landscapes as social‐ecological systems: Role of social factors in invasive plant species control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Yletyinen ◽  
George L. W. Perry ◽  
Olivia R. Burge ◽  
Norman W. H. Mason ◽  
Philip Stahlmann‐Brown
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Invasive Plant ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Invasive Plant Species ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

Incorporating fungal community ecology into invasion biology: challenges and opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Eleonora Egidi ◽  
Ashley E Franks
Keyword(s):  
Community Ecology ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Fungal Community ◽  
Invasive Plant ◽  
Invasion Biology ◽  
Invasive Plant Species ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Control

Recently, the role of the plant-associated mycobiome (i.e. the fungal community) in influencing the competitive success of invasive plant species has received increasing attention. Fungi act as primary drivers of the plant invasion process due to their ability to form both beneficial and detrimental relationships with terrestrial plant species. Here we review the role of the plant mycobiome in promoting or inhibiting plant species invasion into foreign ecosystems. Moreover, the potential to exploit these relationships for invasive plant control and restoration of native communities is discussed. Incorporating fungal community ecology into invasion and restoration biology will aid in the management and control of invasive plant species in Australia.

Investigating the Role of Fish and Fishing in Sharing Networks to Build Resilience in Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Rachel Dacks ◽  
Tamara Ticktin ◽  
Stacy D. Jupiter ◽  
Alan M. Friedlander
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Utilitarian redundancy in local medical systems - theoretical and methodological contributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros ◽  
Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior ◽  
Fabiane da Silva Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Indication ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Methodological Improvement ◽  
Redundancy Index

Abstract The utilitarian redundancy model (URM) is one of the recent contributions to ethnobiology. We argue that URM can be applied to access use-pressure on plant species, the resilience of socioecological systems (e.g., local medical systems), cultural keystone species, and the role of exotic species in social-ecological systems. Based on previous URM studies, we also emphasize the need to differ practical (considering plants and uses that are currently employed) and theoretical (considering both currently employed and potentially employed plants and uses) redundancy. Based on the main applications of the URM, we propose a new index to access redundancy of a therapeutic indication: the Uredit, so that Uredit = NSp + CR, were Uredit is the Utilitarian Redundancy Index for the therapeutic indication; NSp is the total number of species mentioned for the indication, and CR is the species’ contribution to redundancy (in terms of knowledge sharing). The maximum value that the Uredit could reach is twice the number of species employed for the therapeutic indication. We believe that this theoretical and methodological improvement in the model can improve comparisons of redundancy in different social-ecological systems. We also highlight some limitations of the URM (and our Uredit), and we believe that conscious reasons behind people’s decisions should be incorporated into future studies on the subject.

scholarly journals Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5705 ◽  
Author(s):  
de Schutter ◽  
Giljum ◽  
Häyhä ◽  
Bruckner ◽  
Naqvi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
High Income ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Income Country ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resource System

Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints. However, the current bioeconomy is associated with critical levels of environmental degradation. As a potential increase in biological resource use may further threaten the capacity of ecosystems to fulfil human needs, it remains unclear whether bioeconomy transitions in high income countries are sustainable. In order to fill a gap in bioeconomy sustainability assessments, we apply an ontological lens of coupled social-ecological systems to explore critical mechanisms in relation to bioeconomy activities in the global resource system. This contributes to a social-ecological systems (SES)-based understanding of sustainability from a high income country perspective: the capacity of humans to satisfy their needs with strategies that reduce current levels of pressures and impacts on ecosystems. Building on this notion of agency, we develop a framework prototype that captures the systemic relation between individual human needs and collective social outcomes on the one hand (micro-level) and social-ecological impacts in the global resource system on the other hand (macro-level). The BIO-SES framework emphasizes the role of responsible consumption (for physical health), responsible production (to reduce stressors on the environment), and the role of autonomy and self-organisation (to protect the reproduction capacity of social-ecological systems). In particular, the BIO-SES framework can support (1) individual and collective agency in high income country contexts to reduce global resource use and related ecosystem impacts with a bioeconomy strategy, (2) aligning social outcomes, monitoring efforts and governance structures with place-based efforts to achieve the SDGs, as well as (3), advancing the evidence base and social-ecological theory on responsible bioeconomy transitions in the limited biosphere.

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