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Can ecosystem properties be fully translated into service values? An economic valuation of aquatic plants services
(Ecological Society Of America, 2011-09)
We carried out an integrated analysis of ecosystem services in the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain), from the providers (different aquatic plant functional groups) to the beneficiaries (different ...
Provision of ecosystem services by the Aysén watershed, Chilean Patagonia, to rural households
(2013)
How much do ecosystems contribute to the wellbeing of rural populations in developing nations? In this article we provide an answer to this question through an eco-social study of two provisioning ecosystem services (wood ...
Mapping the provision of cultural ecosystem services in large cities: the case of The Andean piedmont in Santiago, Chile
(Elsevier, 2021)
Large cities are both centers of demand for cultural ecosystem services (CES) and a source of environmental
impacts. Assessing CES yields information to reduce the vulnerability of these services to such environmental
impacts ...
Biodiversity conservation actions as a tool to improve the management of sustainable corporations and their needs ecosystem services
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-05-10)
In the Anthropocene era, ecosystem productivity decreasing due to Global temperatures increasing and the biodiversity loss. Thus, are imperative that natural areas be explored under sustainable precepts, respecting and ...
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
(National Academy of Sciences, 2007-12)
Global environmental change affects the sustained provision of a wide set of ecosystem services. Although the delivery of ecosystem services is strongly affected by abiotic drivers and direct land use effects, it is also ...
Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art
(Elsevier Science, 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 ...
Urban ecosystem services on the local level: urban green spaces as providers
(Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Slovak Republic and University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria in the Publishing House AEPress, Ltd., Bratislava., 2013-12)
Ecosystem services are provided at different spatial and service/functional scales. The local level is the basic unit for ecosystem services, especially when it comes to the human dimension of urban landscapes. These ...
Ecosystem services and biogeochemical cycles on a global scale: valuation of water, carbon and nitrogen processes
(Elsevier Sci LtdOxfordInglaterra, 2011)
Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2009-11-10)
Ecosystem-based management is logistically and politically challenging because ecosystems are inherently complex and management decisions affect a multitude of groups. Coastal ecosystems, which lie at the interface between ...
Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability
(Wiley, 2013-09)
People depend on benefits provided by ecological systems. Understanding how these ecosystem services – and the ecosystem properties underpinning them – respond to drivers of change is therefore an urgent priority. We address ...