Feedback Control for Ecosystem Management:The Case of Wolf-Elk-Hunting Dynamics in the US Mountain West

作     者：Kevin MACKSAMIE Jeffrey WAGNER Juan C.COCKBURN 

作者机构：Black River Systems Company Inc.162 Genesee Street Utica New York 13507 USA Department of Economics Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester NY 14623 USA Department of Computer Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology 83 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester NY 14623USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Mountain Science》 (山地科学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第11卷第4期

页      面：850-865页

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学科分类：0907[农学-林学] 090705[农学-野生动植物保护与利用] 09[农学] 

基　　金：the RIT College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Fund for supplemental funding that enabled presentation of the preliminary results at the above mentioned AERE Conference in Asheville  NC 

主　　题：Feedback control Linear parameter Optimal vontrol Robust control Predator-prey Recreational hunting 

摘      要：The purpose of this paper is to explore the promise of utilizing some relatively new feedback control techniques in ecosystem management. First, we set forth a basic ecological-economic model of a predator-prey-hunting system in which both the predator and prey have use(flow) and non-use(stock) value and when the predator can inflict transboundary damages. We then use new data from the US Mountain West to show how a particular feedback approach—linear parameter-varying(LPV) control—can be utilized in this context. Our LPV model is able to quantify the cost of managing disturbances that inevitably arise as a manager tries to keep the actual path of the system close to its optimum. The results suggest management strategies in mountain ecosystems that feature large, mammalian carnivores.