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Selection criteria for ecosystem condition indicators [PDF]

Ecological Indicators, 2021
The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their condition, and the services they provide to society.
Bálint Czúcz, Heather Keith, Joachim Maes, Amanda Driver, Bethanna Jackson, Emily Nicholson, Márton Kiss, Carl Obst   +7 more
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A capacity index to connect ecosystem condition to ecosystem services accounts

Ecological Indicators
Ecosystem services are essential for human survival and wellbeing, and the quantity and quality of the services delivered by an ecosystem are dependent on its underlying condition.
Francesco Martini, Kathleen Conroy, Emma King, Catherine A. Farrell, Mary Kelly-Quinn, Carl Obst, Yvonne M. Buckley, Jane C. Stout   +7 more
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Disentangling the ecosystem service 'flood regulation': Mechanisms and relevant ecosystem condition characteristics. [PDF]

Ambio, 2022
AbstractRiverine floods cause increasingly severe damages to human settlements and infrastructure. Ecosystems have a natural capacity to decrease both severity and frequency of floods. Natural flood regulation processes along freshwaters can be attributed to two different mechanisms: flood prevention that takes place in the whole catchment and flood ...
Vári Á, Kozma Z, Pataki B, Jolánkai Z, Kardos M, Decsi B, Pinke Z, Jolánkai G, Pásztor L, Condé S, Sonderegger G, Czúcz B.   +11 more
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Towards Integrated Ecosystem Assessments: A literature review on linking ecosystem condition indicators to ecosystem services [PDF]

One Ecosystem
Ecosystem services (ES) fundamentally depend on ecosystem condition (EC), yet many ES assessments still rely on land-cover proxies, risking biased assessment results as well as weak uptake, meaning limited application of results in decision-making ...
Joana Seguin, Isabel Nicholson Thomas, Paula Rendón, Chiara Cortinovis, Ildikó Arany, Bálint Czúcz, Helena Duchková, Davide Geneletti, Nicolas Grondard, Victoria Guisado Goñi, Miguel Inácio, Jarumi Kato-Huerta, Ioannis Kokkoris, Solen Le Clec'h, Piotr Lupa, Mark Mansoldo, Paulo Pereira, Daniela Ribeiro, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Małgorzata Stępniewska, Eliška Tichopádová, Vince van ‘t Hoff, Joana Vincente, Iwona Zwierzchowska, Sabine Lange   +24 more
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ESSENCE OF THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Bulletin of the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (economic sciences), 2021
The article analyzes the economic essence of the innovative ecosystem (IEC), its characteristic features and subjects. The tools used to study the IECare investigated, namely the theory of networks. The concepts that are related to the creation of an innovative cluster and clustering are analyzed.
Novik, I. O., Kurochkina, Marina Yriivna, Peredrii, Andrea Elizabeth Yuriivna, Dyakova, Nataliya Nikolaevna   +3 more
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Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems Services under the Proposed MAES European Common Framework: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Land, 2021
The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 was a driving force behind spatially explicit quantifications of Ecosystem Services (ES) in Europe. In Portugal, the MAES initiative (ptMAES–Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem and their Services) was conducted in ...
Lia Laporta, Tiago Domingos, Cristina Marta-Pedroso   +2 more
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Human Condition In A Changing Ecosystem.

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2000
Giorgio Spinelli
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What Insight Does the Alien Plant Species Richness in Greece Offer for the Different Invasion Biology Hypotheses?

Diversity, 2023
Biological invasions are one of the main threats to biodiversity, but they also offer insights on different ecological processes, as highlighted by the hypotheses posited to explain the phenomenon.
Athanasios Kallimanis, Ioannis P. Kokkoris, Ioannis Bazos, Thomas Raus, Arne Strid, Panayotis Dimopoulos   +5 more
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Conditions of Mainland China’s Island Ecosystems and Associated Influencing Factors: Integrated Assessment of 42 Typical Island Ecosystems

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Although China possesses a large number of islands, knowledge of their overall ecological condition is limited on a national scale. Accordingly, this study developed a comprehensive and quantitative island ecosystem assessment framework that incorporates
Zhiyuan Ma, Zhiyuan Ma, Weiwei Yu, Weiwei Yu, Wanting Zhang, Wanting Zhang, Feiyang Ge, Bin Chen, Bin Chen, Wenjia Hu, Wenjia Hu, Dian Zhang, Jianji Liao, Jianji Liao, Hao Huang, Hao Huang, Yuanmin Sun, Yuanmin Sun, Haiping Huang   +18 more
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Assessing Ecosystem Condition: Use and Customization of the Vegetation Departure Metric

Land, 2021
Assessment of ecosystem change often focuses on the degree of conversion and representation in networks of protected areas. While essential, these factors alone do not provide a holistic index of ecosystem conditions.
Randy Swaty, Kori Blankenship, Kimberly R. Hall, Jim Smith, Megan Dettenmaier, Sarah Hagen   +5 more
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