Clean Up content for rangelands exam

examples of provisioning

freshwater, forage, wild food, wood products, medicinal products

examples of regulating

carbon sequestration, air quality maintenance, wildfire risk regulation, soil erosion control, flooding regulation

examples of cultural

lifestyle, hunting, ecotourism, education, aesthetic, cultural diversity, history

examples of supporting

photosynthesis, biomass production, nutrient cycling, soil formation, water cycle, habitat construction, biodiversity, evolution

As rangelands managers, should we strive to increase resilience?

Resilience is not an inherently good or bad quality. Degraded, unproductive rangelands might be just as resilient to change than more productive states.

example of building adaptive capacity?

landowner partnerships across property lines, federal and state incentive programs for private land management, multiple sources of household income

examples of alternative stable states

grassland, woodland, forest, savanna, shrubland

the capacity of systems to absorb disturbances and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain the same function, structure, feedbacks, and identity.

ecological resilience