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A shifting baseline (also known as a sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system. The concept arose in landscape architect Ian McHarg's 1969 manifesto Design With Nature in which the modern landscape is compared to that on which ancient people once lived. The concept was then considered by the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly in his paper "Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries". Pauly developed the concept in reference to fisheries management where fisheries scientists sometimes fail to identify the correct "baseline" population size (e.g. how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus work with a shifted baseline. He describes the way that radically depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its untouched state. Areas that swarmed with a particular species hundreds of years ago, may have experienced long term decline, but it is the level of decades previously that is considered the appropriate reference point for current populations. In this way large declines in ecosystems or species over long periods of time were, and are, masked. There is a loss of perception of change that occurs when each generation redefines what is "natural". Most modern fisheries' stock assessments do not ignore historical fishing and account for it by either including the historical catch or use other techniques to reconstruct the depletion level of the population at the start of the period for which adequate data is available. Anecdotes about historical populations levels can be highly unreliable and result in severe mismanagement of the fishery. The concept was further refined and applied to the ecology of kelp forests by Paul Dayton and others from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They used a slightly different version of the term in their paper, "Sliding baselines, ghosts, and reduced expectations in kelp forest communities". Both terms refer to a shift over time in the expectation of what a healthy ecosystem baseline looks like. (en) L'amnésie écologique (parfois nommée amnésie générationnelle ou amnésie environnementale) est un concept développé en biologie de la conservation stipulant que chaque génération considère comme le point de référence initial d'un écosystème celui qu'il a connu depuis sa naissance, engendrant un (en). Cela conduit généralement à une anthropisation et une perte de biodiversité de plus en plus importante, la nouvelle génération prenant appui sur l'état « dégradé » qu'elle a toujours connu. (fr) |
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L'amnésie écologique (parfois nommée amnésie générationnelle ou amnésie environnementale) est un concept développé en biologie de la conservation stipulant que chaque génération considère comme le point de référence initial d'un écosystème celui qu'il a connu depuis sa naissance, engendrant un (en). Cela conduit généralement à une anthropisation et une perte de biodiversité de plus en plus importante, la nouvelle génération prenant appui sur l'état « dégradé » qu'elle a toujours connu. (fr) A shifting baseline (also known as a sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system. (en) |
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