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Social valuation of Mediterranean cultural landscapes: Exploring landscape preferences and ecosystem services perceptions through a visual approach
(MDPI, 2020)
Mediterranean cultural landscapes have been recognized as multifunctional landscapes that are currently threatened by two opposing trends: rural abandonment and agricultural intensification. Uncovering people's perceptions ...
The effects of landscape patterns on ecosystem services: meta-analyses of landscape services
(2018-08-01)
Purpose: The recently introduced concept of ‘landscape services’—ecosystem services influenced by landscape patterns—may be particularly useful in landscape planning by potentially increasing stakeholder participation and ...
Concepts and methods for landscape multifunctionality and a unifying framework based on ecosystem services
(Springer, 2013-04)
The potential of landscapes to supply multiple benefits to society beyond commodities production has received increasing research and policy attention. Linking the concept of multifunctionality with the ecosystem services ...
Loss of landscape multifunctionality in La Tatacoa desert Colombian region, scenarios 2025 - 2050
(Bogotá : Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, 2018Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales y de la SostenibilidadMaestría en Ciencias Ambientales, 2018)
Landscape change is an opportunity to design multifunctional landscapes that meet multiple value goals (ecological, social, and economic). Thus,spatial analysis of multifunctional landscapes provides a ...
Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018-08-08)
Restoration projects designed to promote one ecosystem service may have synergistic benefits to other services. Therefore, bundling them can be an effective way to maximize the return to the investments in programs of ...
How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?
(Amsterdam, 2014-02)
Native forests play an important role regarding ecosystem services related to biodiversity, water, and nutrient cycling, and the intensity of those services should be related to the amount, configuration and quality of the ...
GIS-BASED DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF PATCH-BOUNDARY PATTERNS FOR IDENTIFYING LANDSCAPE MOSAICS
(Corvinus Univ Budapest, 2018)
The study of boundaries between patches allows us to understand the complexity of landscape interactions, especially those involved in the anthropic use of natural resources, which is a common source of environmental ...
Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality
(Mdpi, 2020-12-01)
In recent decades, with the increasing global need for sustainable development, ecotourism has emerged as one of the most efficient activities that can be used to reconcile economic development with environmental conservation. ...
Landscape heterogeneity and forest cover shape cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities in a multi-scale perspective
(2021-11-01)
Increasing biodiversity loss due to human activities may compromise ecosystem functions and services, with serious consequences for human well-being. Pollination and biological control are among the ecosystem services most ...
Ecosystem services across the landscape: the case of insect parasitism in the Chaco ecosystem, NW Argentina.
(Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación. Congreso Estudiantil Subgraduado y Graduado de Investigación de la UPR-RP, 2012)