TY - JOUR
T1 - Filling the gaps in ecological studies of socioecological systems
AU - Chen, I. Ching
AU - Hsieh, Chih hao
AU - Kondoh, Michio
AU - Lin, Hsing Juh
AU - Miki, Takeshi
AU - Nakamura, Masahiro
AU - Ohgushi, Takayuki
AU - Urabe, Jotaro
AU - Yoshida, Takehito
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was supported by CREST JST, JSPS KAKENHI (No. 251011 to Ecological Research, Nos. 15K14610 and 16H04846 to Michio Kondoh, and No. B-25291102 to Takayuki Ohgushi), the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (4-1505) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan (to Takehito Yoshida), Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 104-2311-B-006-006-MY3) (to I-Ching Chen), and Marine National Park Headquarters, Taiwan under Grant 98415 and Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST104-2621-M-005-002-MY2) (to Hsing-Juh Lin).
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Our human-dominant world can be viewed as being built up in two parts, social and ecological systems, each consisting of multi-level organizations that interact in a complex manner. However, there are knowledge gaps among those interactions. In this paper, we focus on studies filling two types of gaps in the socioecological system, some of which are case studies in the East Asia region and others are discussed in a more general context. First, we address the gaps between different levels of organizations in ecological systems, namely, (1) the importance of plant trait plasticity in bridging evolution and ecology, (2) linking primary producer diversity and the dynamics of blue carbon in coastal ecosystems in the Asia–Pacific region, and (3) research direction of climate change biology to fill the gaps across evolution, community, and ecosystem. Also included is (4) the gap between ecological monitoring programs and theories, which also addresses the potential of citizen science. Second, we illustrate the gaps between ecological and social systems through ongoing development of an ecosystem management framework, i.e., ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. Finally, we summarize the benefits of filling the gaps for ecologists and society.
AB - Our human-dominant world can be viewed as being built up in two parts, social and ecological systems, each consisting of multi-level organizations that interact in a complex manner. However, there are knowledge gaps among those interactions. In this paper, we focus on studies filling two types of gaps in the socioecological system, some of which are case studies in the East Asia region and others are discussed in a more general context. First, we address the gaps between different levels of organizations in ecological systems, namely, (1) the importance of plant trait plasticity in bridging evolution and ecology, (2) linking primary producer diversity and the dynamics of blue carbon in coastal ecosystems in the Asia–Pacific region, and (3) research direction of climate change biology to fill the gaps across evolution, community, and ecosystem. Also included is (4) the gap between ecological monitoring programs and theories, which also addresses the potential of citizen science. Second, we illustrate the gaps between ecological and social systems through ongoing development of an ecosystem management framework, i.e., ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. Finally, we summarize the benefits of filling the gaps for ecologists and society.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11284-017-1521-9
DO - 10.1007/s11284-017-1521-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032813700
VL - 32
SP - 873
EP - 885
JO - Ecological Research
JF - Ecological Research
SN - 0912-3814
IS - 6
ER -