Bridging the research-management gap: landscape science in practice on public lands in the western United States

摘要: Landscape science relies on foundational concepts of landscape ecology and seeks to understand the physical, biological, human components ecosystems support land management decision-making. Incorporating into decisions, however, remains challenging. Many lands in western United States are federally owned managed for multiple uses, including recreation, conservation, energy development. We argue stronger integration these public lands. open by outlining relevance planning, management, environmental effects analysis, pertinent laws policies. identify challenges integrating multijurisdictional nature complicated spatial pattern lands, capacity agencies fill needs, perceptions about meaning approaches management. provide several recent examples related monitoring, restoration, reclamation, conservation which products were developed specifically close highlighting three actions—elevating importance science-management partnerships dedicated coproducing actionable products, identifying where could foster efficiencies land-use planning process, developing scenario-based models shrublands—that improve planners managers.