Describe a unique utopian ecosystem without any human impact. Include a landscap

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Describe a unique utopian ecosystem without any human impact. Include a landscape ecology perspective; you have meta-populations- what is the habitat diversity that supports the species diversity? The ecosystem is in an equilibrium state with species experiencing the right balance of interactions and disturbances. Without concern for specific names, just general organism (e.g., bird, rodent, tree, large cat, grass), choose 2-3 organisms to illustrate what surviving a day would be like - emphasis on where/how food, shelter, reproduction are secured and important symbioses with other organisms. What role does your selected organisms have in the cycling of nutrients through the ecosystem (hint: what are their trophic level?)? Are there persistent or stochastic motivators for individuals of your selected organisms to seek other or establish new populations across the landscape?

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The future of humanity depends on whether or not we have a vision to guide our transition toward sustainability, on scales ranging from local landscapes to the planet as a whole. Sustainability science is at the core of this vision, and landscapes and regions represent a pivotal scale domain. The main objectives of this paper are: (1) to elucidate key definitions and concepts of sustainability, including the Brundtland definition, the triple bottom line, weak and strong sustainability, resilience, human well-being, and ecosystem services; (2) to examine key definitions and concepts of landscape sustainability, including those derived from general concepts and those developed for specific landscapes; and (3) to propose a framework for developing a science of landscape sustainability. Landscape sustainability is defined as the capacity of a landscape to consistently provide long-term, landscape-specific ecosystem services essential for maintaining and improving human well-being. Fundamentally, well-being is a journey, not a destination. Landscape sustainability science is a place-based, use-inspired science of understanding and improving the dynamic relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes under uncertainties arising from internal feedbacks and external disturbances. While landscape sustainability science emphasizes place-based research on landscape and regional scales, significant between landscape interactions and hierarchical linkages to both finer and broader scales (or externalities) must not be ignored. To advance landscape sustainability science, spatially explicit methods are essential, especially experimental approaches that take advantage of designed landscapes and multi-scaled simulation models that couple the dynamics of landscape services (ecosystem services provided by multiple landscape elements in combination as emergent properties) and human well-being

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