By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Ecology, Environment & Conservation -- New research on Ecology Research - Rangeland Ecology is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Bozeman, Montana, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, “Amenity migration describes the movement of peoples to rural landscapes and the transition toward tourism and recreation and away from production-oriented land uses (ranching, timber harvesting). The resulting mosaic of land uses and community structures has important consequences for wildlife and their management.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Montana State University, “This research note examines amenity-driven changes to social-ecological systems in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, specifically in lower elevations that serve as winter habitat for elk. We present a research agenda informed by a preliminary and exploratory mixed-methods investigation: the creation of a ‘social-impact’ index of land use change on elk winter range and a focus group with wildlife management experts. Our findings suggest that elk are encountering an increasingly diverse landscape with respect to land use, while new ownership patterns increase the complexity of social and community dynamics. These factors, in turn, contribute to increasing difficulty meeting wildlife management objectives.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “To deal with rising complexity across social and ecological landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, future research will focus on property life cycle dynamics, as well as systems approaches.”
For more information on this research see: Land Use Diversification and Intensification on Elk Winter Range in Greater Yellowstone: Framework and Agenda for Social-Ecological Research. Rangeland Ecology & Management , 2018;71(2):171-174. Rangeland Ecology & Management can be contacted at: Soc Range Management, 445 Union Blvd, Ste 230, Lakewood, CO 80228-1259, USA.
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.H. Haggerty, Montana State University, Dept. of Earth Sci, Resources & Communities Res Grp, Bozeman, MT 59715, United States. Additional authors for this research include K. Epstein, M. Stone and P.C. Cross.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2017.11.002. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-06), Studies from Montana State University Have Provided New Information about Rangeland Ecology (Land Use Diversification and Intensification on Elk Winter Range in Greater Yellowstone: Framework and Agenda for Social-Ecological Research), Ecology, Environment & Conservation, 925, ISSN: 1945-6506, BUTTER® ID: 015441405
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