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    The SER Standards, cultural ecosystems, and the nature-culture nexus—a reply to Evans and Davis

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    Authors
    McDonald, Tein
    Aronson, J.
    Eisenberg, C.
    Gann, G.
    Dixon, Kingsley
    Hallett, J.
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    McDonald, T. and Aronson, J. and Eisenberg, C. and Gann, G. and Dixon, K. and Hallett, J. 2019. The SER Standards, cultural ecosystems, and the nature-culture nexus—a reply to Evans and Davis. Restoration Ecology. 27 (2): pp. 243-246.
    Source Title
    Restoration Ecology
    DOI
    10.1111/rec.12913
    ISSN
    1061-2971
    School
    School of Molecular and Life Sciences (MLS)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73765
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Evans and Davis claim the SER Standards use a “pure naturalness” model for restoration baselines and exclude most cultural ecosystems from the ecological restoration paradigm. The SER Standards do neither. The SER Standards consider both “natural” ecosystems (that are unequivocally not cultural) and “similar” cultural ecosystems as suitable reference models. Furthermore, Evans and Davis propose assessing whether a cultural ecosystem exhibits “good, bad, or neutral impacts from humans on ecosystems” as the basis for reference models. We argue that such an approach would overlook the indispensability of native ecosystem benchmarks to measure human impacts and provide a springboard for social-ecological restoration.

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