@article{ec9481ef9c864405ac068adbb8243a1b,
title = "Integrating ecology and environmental ethics: Earth stewardship in the Southern end of the Americas",
abstract = "The South American temperate and sub-Antarctic forests cover the longest latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere and include the world's southernmost forests. However, until now, this unique biome has been absent from global ecosystem research and monitoring networks. Moreover, the latitudinal range of between 40 degrees (°) south (S) and 60° S constitutes a conspicuous gap in the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) and other international networks. We first identify 10 globally salient attributes of biological and cultural diversity in southwestern South America. We then present the nascent Chilean Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) network, which will incorporate a new biome into ILTER. Finally, we introduce the field environmental philosophy methodology, developed by the Chilean LTSER network to integrate ecological sciences and environmental ethics into graduate education and biocultural conservation. This approach broadens the prevailing economic spectrum of social dimensions considered by LTSER programs and helps foster bioculturally diverse forms of Earth stewardship.",
keywords = "conservation, field stations, long-term ecological research, sub-Antarctic ecoregion, temperate forests",
author = "Ricardo Rozzi and Armesto, {Juan J.} and Guti{\'e}rrez, {Julio R.} and Francisca Massardo and Likens, {Gene E.} and Anderson, {Christopher B.} and Alexandria Poole and Moses, {Kelli P.} and Eugene Hargrove and Mansilla, {Andres O.} and Kennedy, {James H.} and Mary Willson and Kurt Jax and Jones, {Clive G.} and Callicott, {J. Baird} and Arroyo, {Mary T.K.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the numerous people and institutions that have collaborated with the Chilean Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) network. We especially thank Mary Power, William Schlesinger, Jerry Franklin, and three anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. The figures were prepared by Tamara Contador and the maps by Maria Rosa Gallardo at the GIS Laboratory at the University of Magallanes. The Chilean LTSER network is primarily funded by the Millennium Scientific Initiative (grant no. P05-002 ICM, Chile) and the Basal Financing Program of the Comisi{\'o}n Nacional de Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica y Tecnol{\'o}gica (grant no. PFB-23, Chile), and was catalyzed by grants from US National Science Foundation (projects nos. 06524220, LTERB DEB-03-19966, and OISE 0854350), the A. W. Mellon Foundation, the UK Darwin Initiative, the German Ministry of Education and Research, Chile{\textquoteright}s National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant no. 1070808), and by a joint grant from the Fondo de Investigaci{\'o}n Avanzado en Areas Prioritarias and Chile{\textquoteright}s National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant no. 1501-0001) to the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biology at the Pontificia Universidad Cat{\'o}lica de Chile. Funding Information: A series of in situ interdisciplinary workshops, jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Chilean MSI and CONICYT, has brought together leading international scholars—mainly ecologists and environmental philosophers—with local-government authorities and graduate students from Latin America and the United States to assess, discuss, and reformulate research programs at the three field stations and to think of effective ways to enhance, from these field sites, the scientific foundations for bio-cultural conservation in southwestern South America (see the special issues of Environmental Ethics 2008, 30[3], and Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2010, 83[1]). In light of the rapid cultural, socioeconomic, and ecological transformations taking place both in the remote austral region of South America and around the globe, the participants of these workshops have emphatically stated the urgent need to develop formal long-term, transdisciplinary, ecological research, education, and conservation networks. Formal networks should enhance the integration of the Chilean LTSER sites among themselves and with other national and international research networks.",
year = "2012",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1525/bio.2012.62.3.4",
language = "English",
volume = "62",
pages = "226--236",
journal = "BioScience",
issn = "0006-3568",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "3",
}