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PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2013
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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Ecosystem Services: Response [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2013
C. Obst et al. provide a welcome opportunity to clarify the difference between environmental-economic cost-benefit analyses (such as ours) and environmental accounting exercises [such as the UN-SEEA ([ 1 ][1], [ 2 ][2]) initiative]. Accounting studies attempt to assess the total value of goods related to ecosystem services in a manner comparable to ...
Amii R. Harwood   +28 more
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Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps

open access: yesBiological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2021
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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Operationalising ODEMM risk assessment for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment scoping: Complexity vs. manageability

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
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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Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2022
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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Improving ecosystem services in farmlands: beginning of a long-term ecological study with restored flower-rich grasslands

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022
Biodiversity declines in an unprecedented way, mostly due to land use change. Restoration interventions proved to be one of the most effective tools to halt the decline, especially in ecosystems such as agricultural fields.
András Báldi   +9 more
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Ecosystem Services Becoming Political: How Ecological Processes Shape Local Resource-Management Networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
While a landscape usually provides a wide range of benefits, the ecological and spatial entanglement of the processes behind ecosystem services does not allow maximizing benefits from all services at the same time.
Béla Kuslits   +10 more
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Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Growing urbanisation is a threat to both mental health and biodiversity. Street trees are an important biodiversity component of urban greenspace, but little is known about their effects on mental health.
Melissa R. Marselle   +5 more
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Citizen science and invasive alien species: An analysis of citizen science initiatives using information and communications technology (ICT) to collect invasive alien species observations

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Owing to the huge number of species observations that can be collected by non-professional scientists, “citizen science” has great potential to contribute to scientific knowledge on invasive alien species (IAS). Citizen science has existed for centuries,
Brian Alan Johnson   +3 more
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How to diminish the geographical bias in IPBES and related science?

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2021
To tackle the current global environmental crisis, operational science‐policy interfaces are needed. The Intergovernmental Science‐policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides governments with policy advice via its assessment ...
András Báldi, Brigitta Palotás
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