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Science 13 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5797, pp. 257 - 258
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131946
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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs

Stephen R. Carpenter,1 Ruth DeFries,2 Thomas Dietz,3 Harold A. Mooney,4 Stephen Polasky,5 Walter V. Reid,6* Robert J. Scholes7

The research community needs to develop analytical tools for projecting future trends and evaluating the success of interventions as well as indicators to monitor biological, physical, and social changes.

1Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.

2Department of Geography and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

3Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.

4Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

5Department of Applied Economics and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108.

6Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

7Natural Resources and the Environment (NRE), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Post Office Box 395, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa.

*Present address: David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA.

Author for correspondence. E-mail: hmooney{at}stanford.edu

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