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PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
This address focuses on the legislative design for payment or ecosystem services (PES) since most countries do not have specific legislation that addresses the subject.
A H Benjamin
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Collective agri-environmental schemes are designed to improve the spatial coordination and targeting of agri-environmental measures. However, policymakers must craft these programs carefully to motivate farmers to participate.
Rena Barghusen+4 more
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Mismatches in the ecosystem services-wellbeing nexus: a case study for Chilean Patagonia
The supply of ecosystem services (ES) is commonly assumed to be linked to human wellbeing within socio-ecological systems. However, these linkages are seldom assessed using quantitative approaches at large scales and low spatial resolution.
Felipe Benra+5 more
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Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop species or varieties in agroecosystems are still under scrutiny. The
D. Beillouin+4 more
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Caves as wildlife refuges in degraded landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon
Cross-habitat spillover may be the outcome of a process of habitat loss or degradation where the receiving habitat serves as a refuge for organisms. Once surface habitats are lost or degraded, animals can find underground refuge in caves.
Rafael de Fraga+7 more
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Ecosystem Services: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Dimension in Freshwater Ecosystems
Ecosystem services are part and parcel of human lives. It is of paramount importance to understand the interaction between these ecosystem services, as they are directly related to human life.
Deeksha, Anoop Kumar Shukla
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Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEA) require consideration of the full suite of pressures and impacts affecting ecosystems. However, capacity limitations often severely limit our ability to do everything that we want or ‘should’ do, outside of short ...
Debbi Pedreschi+3 more
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Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps
The aculeate wasps are one of the most diverse and speciose insect taxa; they are omnipresent across ecosystems and exhibit diverse co‐evolutionary and exploitative associations with other organisms. There is widespread conjecture that aculeate wasps are
Ryan E. Brock, A. Cini, S. Sumner
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Differences in ecosystem service (ES) priorities often lead to conflicts between stakeholders. While differences in priorities have often been described, the sociocultural factors, including differences in cultural worldview, which drive them have not ...
Sophie Peter+4 more
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Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is considered to be one of the major environmental factors influencing stomatal functions and photosynthesis, as well as plant growth in crop and horticultural plants.
Takayasu Inoue+6 more
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