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Ecosystem Management

Ecosystem management is an integrated approach to stewarding natural systems that treats interacting species, habitats, and physical processes as a single functional unit rather than managing individual resources in isolation. It sets objectives for the long-term sustainability of ecological structure and function, …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 31× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2637-6075 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Ecosystem management is an integrated approach to stewarding natural systems that treats interacting species, habitats, and physical processes as a single functional unit rather than managing individual resources in isolation. It sets objectives for the long-term sustainability of ecological structure and function, accounts for trophic linkages and disturbance regimes, and uses monitoring and adaptive decision-making to respond to changing conditions, including climate change. The defining principle is that the productivity of any target resource depends on the integrity of the wider food web and the abiotic environment that supports it. Research in this area applies ecosystem-based fishery management to Antarctic krill, recognizing that krill harvests must be set with regard to the baleen whales and other predators that depend on them, and it traces how krill-to-whale energy transfer in the pelagic food web is structured by migrations along deep-sea seamounts. Complementary work advocates wider, multi-species approaches to fisheries management, evaluates environmental drivers of freshwater insect biodiversity, and measures soil respiration responses to precipitation in temperate forests as an indicator of ecosystem carbon dynamics. Permaculture and habitat-suitability studies extend the same logic to agricultural and terrestrial settings, framing management around whole-system resilience and the maintenance of ecological services.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 31 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant and Animal Ecology (ISSN 2637-6075).

Journal editorial board
Dimitris Zianis · Greece Jasmin Mantilla Contreras · Germany Narcisa Vrinceanu · Romania

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