Ecosystem Functions and Services
Ecosystem functions and services
... and functions such as soil formation, primary productivity, biogeo- chemistry, and provisioning of ...These services aff ect human well-being indirectly by maintaining processes necessary for provision- ing, ...
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A short history of the ecosystem services concept
... term ecosystem function was originally used by ecologists to refer to the set of ecosys- tem processes operating within an ecological ...that ecosystem functions are the basis for the delivery of a ...
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A review of studies on ecosystem services in Africa
... ES/ecosystem functions ranked third and focused mainly on self- organization of ecosystems to enable primary production and biotic engineering of ...
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The Value of Producing Food, Energy and Ecosystem Services within an Agro-Ecosystem
... and services (benefits) jointly or ...as services. Products and services can be counted individually and then added together to get an estimate of total goods and ...
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Avian ecosystem functions are influenced by small mammal ecosystem engineering
... ecological functions to their foraging effort at the plot ...ecological functions and outcomes we examined included soil fertilization resulting from excrement deposition, shrub seed dispersal, and pest in- ...
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Integrating Ecosystem Services in urban planning
... of ecosystem functions and processes leading to ES, already the MA classification highlighted the multitude of values associated to ES (Jacobs et ...
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Tourism and ecosystem services in New Zealand
... and functions (includ- ing indigenous biodiversity), wherever they are found – from the mountains to the sea – are the cornerstone of the New Zealand tourism ...and ecosystem functions for land ...
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The impact of flooding on aquatic ecosystem services
... final services (services that people use directly) and emphasize economic valuation, which was not the goal of our ...evaluate ecosystem services and is flexible enough to capture many types ...
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The importance of biodiversity in cities and ecosystem services
... all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels, and fibres (Kinzig et ...many ecosystem services are public goods that lie ...
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Beyond ecosystem services : valuing the invaluable
... National Ecosystem Assessment [13], yet its beneficiaries are not human unless we consider the satisfaction of concerned humans (in which case any ecological state of affairs that makes someone happier is an ...
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Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure in Cities
... Social benefits derived from green infrastructures are dependents on the concerned community where it is implemented, their cultural value, aesthetic, the background of the user and method of using the green space. It ...
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Beyond ecosystem services: valuing the invaluable
... ‘ecosystem services’ (ES) and of specific categories are often vague, tautologous and/or at variance with the concepts actually employed is symptomatic of deep-seated problems, as we shall ...
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Social goals and the valuation of ecosystem services.
... of ecosystem services may be derived from scientific studies of the role of ecosystems and their biota in the overall system, without direct reference to current human prefer- ...
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Ecosystem services for watershed management and planning
... selected ecosystem services, in particular for water provision and quality ...certain ecosystem services and a logic of short-term returns, which means that long-term goals such as ...
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Ecosystem services and the idea of shared values
... of Ecosystem Services) have sought to use deliberative approaches drawing on multiple, and mixed, ...landscape services ’ collated results were incorpo- rated into a workshop for further discussion ...
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The future of ecosystem services: Impacts on ecosystem service values, and global and national scenarios
... of ecosystem service values (ESV) allows for spatially explicit representation of those lost values that result from land ...lost ecosystem services is USD ...lost ecosystem services ...
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Ecosystem services related to oyster restoration
... We take issue with 2 of the points highlighted recently by Pomeroy et al. (2006), who state that (1) native oyster restoration or (2) the introduction of an exotic (non-native) oyster species have been widely advocated ...
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GOVERNANCE FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN COASTS AND OCEANS
... The Florianopolis Declaration, one of the main objectives of the event, will be the result of collaboration between assistants and members of the Scientific Committee, and will achie- ve a “framework for the governance ...
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Towards ecosystem accounting: a comprehensive approach to modelling multiple hydrological ecosystem services
... in ecosystem service delivery that need to be measured in order to better under- stand the full dynamics of service provision and to devise sustainable management ...of ecosystem services is a ...
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Mapping Agricultural Ecosystem Services across Scales
... Another layer of spatial data regarding values of agricultural ESS can be created using photo- elicitation methods, by translating user’s visual knowledge and preferences into ESS values. A relatively new addition to ESS ...
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