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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use: Comparing Three Federal Policies [PDF]

Natural ecosystems provide a variety of benefits to society, known as “ecosystem services.” Fundamental to the provision of ecosystem services in a region is its underlying biodiversity, i.e., the wealth and variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Riddle, Anne, Walls, Margaret
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Determining the payment for ecosystem services of mangrove forests: The approach combining ecosystem services and social-economic level and application in Shankou National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China

Global Ecology and Conservation
Mangrove wetlands are among the ecosystems with the highest value of ecosystem services worldwide. Determining the standards of payment for ecosystem services based on the value of ecosystem services is a crucial aspect of the socio-ecological feedback ...
Yunlan Zhang, Lianghao Pan, Yu Liu, Yancheng Tao, Zhinan Su, Qi Huang, Jiangling Wei, Erjiang Wu, Hangqing Fan, Guanglong Qiu   +9 more
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Unique sex chromosome translocations and evolutionary strata in two Sylvioidea songbird families

BMC Genomics
Avian genomes are typically stable, yet instances of chromosome fissions, fusions and translocations are known across various lineages. For example, multiple sex chromosome translocations have been described in the superfamily Sylvioidea.
Thomas J. Brown, Simon J. Ellerstrand, Hanna Sigeman, Martim Melo, Max Lundberg, Bengt Hansson   +5 more
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Putting Theory into Practice: Market Failure and Market Based Instruments (MBIs) [PDF]

The use of market-based instruments (MBIs) to provide and protect ecosystem services has gained significant attention in Australia. Despite their popularity, MBIs are not appropriate for the provision of all ecosystem services.
Andrew F Reeson, Anthea Coggan, Russell Gorddard, Stuart Whitten   +3 more
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Ecosystem Services [PDF]

, 2014
Kristin Magnussen, Berit Hasler, Marianne Zandersen   +2 more
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Institutions and preferences determine resilience of ecological-economic systems [PDF]

We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers’ preferences for
Martin F. Quaas, Sandra Derissens, Sebastian Strunz, Stefan Baumgärtner   +3 more
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Monetary Green Accounting and Ecosystem Services [PDF]

The point of departure in this paper is that monetary green accounting aims at serving as indicator of wealth changes, sustainable use of natural capital, and performance of environmental policy. It is then investigated how wealth changes and sustainable
Gren, Ing-Marie
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Survey data on citizens' perceptions of avian and their ecosystem services in Zhoushan. [PDF]

Data Brief
Qian W, Ma X, Fu Y, Chen Q, Shen T, Chen J, Gui F, Cai H, Zhao S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Research on the threshold of the supply and demand of ecosystem services. [PDF]

PLoS One
Deng H, Liao Z, Zhou X.
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Identification of ecosystem services hotspots [PDF]

, 2008
Locatelli, Bruno
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