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Predicting effects of ecosystem engineering on species richness along primary productivity gradients
(ELSEVIER, 2010)
Physical ecosystem engineering is the process by which some species change the distribution of materials
and energy in ecosystems. Although several studies have shown that this process is a driver of local
species ...
Methane soil-vegetation-atmosphere fluxes in tropical ecosystems
(2007)
Recently, a surprising discovery indicated that, by an unknown process, vegetation emits methane to the atmosphere. This finding could have serious implications in atmospheric chemistry, climate, and mitigation of global ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and beneficiaries of tropical dry forests of Latin America: Review and new perspectives
(2019)
We conducted a systematic literature review to identify and analyze research linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and their beneficiaries in tropical dry forests of Latin America. By assessing 71 studies published in ...
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 ...
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 ...
The economic value of forests in supplying local climate regulation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Several authors have argued that forest ecosystems serve as a hedge against extreme climatic events at a local scale. Consequently, the local climate regulation ecosystem services provided by forests can be economically ...