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Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management

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Feedback

One of the most fundamental system components, feedback may be the most missing element in faunal system management.

Feedback in the system context does not mean communication or replying to a request. It does not mean monitoring but it may include that. It relates to the comparative, corrective, and adaptive actions that a manager takes. The excellent example of the room thermostat need not be ignored. The standard temperature for the room is set (the objective), comparisons of actual with the desired temperature are made, and action is initiated (turning on or off a heating or cooling source) to correct any difference between the actual and desired temperature. It retains a desired but slightly fluctuating temperature until change exceeds reasonable bounds.

Notice that in faunal system work, the analogous "desired temperature" (for that in the room) is difficult to find, thus feedback is an almost meaningless process (or subsystem).

Study the system diagram. Note that feedback goes to all elements, including the context of the system. Those arrows to context imply that the size of the system being managed at the time may be made smaller (or more land or species, etc. incorporated for a larger system) after the desired state for the present system is achieved.

Continue to study more about feedback in the Forest Faunal textbook.

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