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Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite
Berta Martín-López +14 more
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Novel ecosystems and the emergence of cultural ecosystem services [PDF]
Ecosystem Services, 2014 Many landscapes are severely depleted of ecosystem services, especially industrial ones. Yet, abandoned and, in some cases, regenerating areas are often situated within a wider cultural landscape. With minimal further disturbance these ‘novel ecosystems’ have the potential for recovering some of the ecosystem services that were removed or impeded ...
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Analysis of ecosystem services provision in the Colombian Amazon using participatory research and mapping techniques [PDF]
, 2014 Over the last two decades indigenous peoples in the lower Caquetá River basin in Colombia have experienced detrimental changes in the provision of important ecosystem services in ways that have significant implications for the maintenance of their ...
Torres-Vitolas, Carlos A. +32 more
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Prospering from nature: helping landowners protect and enhance ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2013 2 pagesAround the country, ranchers and family forest landowners face complex challenges that threaten their ability to stay on the land and maintain their operations.
University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program
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Land, 2023 Lake Karla is the first reconstructed lake in the EU, supporting agriculture, biodiversity and cultural activities and being part of the Natura 2000 protected area network.
Georgia Trakala +2 more
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, 2021 This article explores the contribution of animal-based cultural ecosystem services to tourist well-being within the authentic cultural heritage experience.
Zhang, Yang +5 more
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Landscape Online, 2021 This paper aims to map the ecosystem services (ES) provided by a reputed agropastoral ecosystem in the south of Albania and ascertain whether social capital affects the level of importance attributed to them.
Elena Kokthi +3 more
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ANALYSING TRADE-OFFS IN MANAGEMENT DECISION- MAKING BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIONAL RESERVE [PDF]
Environment & Ecosystem Science, 2019 The Ecosystem Services concept has been developed in recent decades through both academic and international institutions. Nowadays, most of the literature agrees that ecosystem services constitute a crucial contribution to human well-being.
Diego Hopkins, Zen Makuch, Karen Makuch
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A closed U‐shaped microfluidic platform symmetrically embeds a single, size‐controlled HT29 colorectal cancer spheroid within a GFP‐HUVEC‐laden fibrin matrix. HT29 spheroids are associated with hyper‐branched endothelial network remodeling, while vascularized co‐culture is accompanied by anisotropic protrusive growth and EMT‐like marker changes in the ...
G. Cretti +4 more
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Insect Cultural Services: How Insects Have Changed Our Lives and How Can We Do Better for Them
Insects, 2021 Societies have benefited directly and indirectly from ecosystem services provided by insects for centuries (e.g., pollination by bees and waste recycling by beetles).
Natalie E. Duffus +2 more
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