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Urban ecosystem services in South America: a systematic review
(MDPI, 2022)
Nature within cities provides benefits for people known as urban ecosystem services. An assessment of urban ecosystem services is growing in South America, a biodiverse and highly urbanized region. To synthesize this growing ...
Mapping of ecosystem services: Missing links between purposes and procedures
(Elsevier, 2015)
The literature on ecosystem services mapping presents a diversity of procedures whose consistency might question the reliability of maps for decision making This study aims at analyzing the correspondence between the purpose ...
Ecosystem services: Where on earth?
(Elsevier, 2015)
The analysis of temporal changes in the number of scientific articles vvritten on ecosystem services shows an exponential growth from 1991 to 2013. Hovvever, it also shows a lack of information regarding the location of ...
Ecosystem services and ecosystem degradation: environmentalist’s expectation
(Elsevier, 2020)
In this article, we explore the connections between ecosystem degradation and ecosystem services. We discuss an operational definition of ecosystem degradation and applied it to the terrestrial ecosystem of Chiloe Island ...
Green infrastructure, ecosystem services and their contributions to address climate change in cities: the case of the coastal corridor of the river Mapocho in Santiago de Chile
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Ins. Geografía, 2016)
The paper discusses the arguments in favor of urban green infrastructure and the provision of ecosystem services as key components of urban-ecological systems resilient to climate change. The analytical framework developed ...
The urban matrix matters: Quantifying the effects of surrounding urban vegetation on natural habitat remnants in Santiago de Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Urbanization destroys and fragments natural habitats, resulting in a system of natural remnants embedded in an urban matrix. Urban natural remnants (UNRs) can provide multiple ecosystem services for ...
Well-being and the use of ecosystem services by rural households of the Río Cruces watershed, southern Chile
(Elsevier, 2016)
© 2016 Elsevier B.V. The main objective of this article is to analyse the relationship between human well-being (HWB) and ecosystem services (ES). We studied the Río Cruces watershed (Chile) as a social-ecological system ...
Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art
(2012-12)
Ecosystem services science has developed at a fast rate in Latin America, a region characterized by a
high biological and cultural diversity, strong emphasis in foreign investment, and high socioeconomic
inequities. Here ...
The adaptive cycle and the ecosystem services: a social-ecological analysis of Chiloé Island, southern Chile
(Resilience Alliance Acadia Univ, Biology Dept,, 2020)
We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth,
conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chiloé Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a ...
Ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes: insectivory in agroforestry systems
(2013)
Despite of being structurally simpler and
species-impoverished than natural forests, agroforestry
plantations can act as a secondary habitat for
native species and sustain some biodiversity. In
particular, insectivores ...