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This commentary responds to “Cues to Care: future directions for ecological landscapes” (Hostetler 2020), which states that “research on cues to care has been sparse”. In a series of papers between 1988-1997, I introduced Cues to Care (CTC) and developed related theories about how CTC function to introduce and sustain environmentally beneficial landscape elements in human-dominated landscapes, and we recently published a systematic analytical review of CTC, which included 212 scholarly papers (excluding my own work). I write this commentary to address errors and apparent misunderstanding of CTC in Hostetler (2020), and to offer insight and direction for those seeking a deeper understanding of CTC.
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Hostetler (2020) incorrectly cites this as (Visscher et al. 2012).
NSF BCS-0119804, NSF GEO-0814542. Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects.
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Nassauer, J.I. Commentary on “Cues to Care: future directions for ecological landscapes”. Urban Ecosyst 23, 933–934 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01048-5
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