PARENT SESSION
Symposium #6: The next generation: Applications of the LTER framework for integrated social and ecological research.
Sponsored by the LTER Network
Organized by: P. Nowak and B. Kahn.
Monday, August 6, 2001. 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Madison Ballroom B
Natural ecological impacts of human ecological change.
Vanderpool, Christopher1, Harris, Craig1, Geason, Lisa 1, Rao, Matta1, Yamaguchi, T.1, Wolff, E.1, 1
ABSTRACT- Natural ecological impacts of changes in human ecological patterns and processes are explored. Forms of external and economic conditions that act as constraints or opportunities for the development of social patterns and processes are identified. A typology of key points of integration between social systems and agricultural and natural resource systems is developed. Longitudinal data at the macro level describing and monitoring changes in natural and human ecological patterns and processes related to agroecosystems are presented.
KEY WORDS: human ecosystems