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Purposes and degrees of commodification: Economic instruments for biodiversity and ecosystem services need not rely on markets or monetary valuation
Commodification of nature refers to the expansion of market trade to previously non-marketed spheres. This is a contested issue both in the scientific literature and in policy deliberations. The aim of this paper is to ...
Desertification and ecosystem services supply: The case of the Arid Chaco of South America
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017-12)
New integrated perspectives are increasingly needed to bridge the gap between biophysical and ecosystem services' based assessments of desertification. For a vast area of the dry Chaco region we sought to: (1) assess the ...
Invasive aquatic plants presents in Chile: Distribution, traits of life and invasive potential
(EDICIONES UNIV. CONCEPCION, 2017)
Amazon rainforest modulation of water security in the Pantanal wetland
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-04-01)
The Pantanal is a large wetland mainly located in Brazil, whose natural resources are important for local, regional and global economies. Many human activities in the region rely on Pantanal's ecosystem services including ...
Desertification and ecosystem services supply : the case of the Arid Chaco of South America
(Elsevier, 2018-12)
New integrated perspectives are increasingly needed to bridge the gap between biophysical and ecosystem services' based assessments of desertification. For a vast area of the dry Chaco region we sought to: (1) assess the ...
Reef-forming polychaetes outcompetes ecosystem engineering mussels
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2013-06)
In order to understand changes in the functioning and the community structure of intertidal ecosystem in sewage-impacted sites, a long-term monitoring coverage study (2004–2011) was carried out on abrasion platforms of the ...
Quantifying the impacts of ecological restoration on biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems: A global meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-04)
Landscape transformation due to agriculture affects more than 40% of the planet’s land area and is the most important driver of losses of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) worldwide. Ecological restoration may ...