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Frontiers 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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Fishing for ecosystem services [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Management, 2016 Ecosystems are commonly exploited and manipulated to maximize certain human benefits. Such changes can degrade systems, leading to cascading negative effects that may be initially undetected, yet ultimately result in a reduction, or complete loss, of certain valuable ecosystem services.
Kevin L. Pope +8 more
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How to diminish the geographical bias in IPBES and related science?
Conservation 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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Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas [PDF]
, 2018 Ecosystem services; Sustainable development; Environmental management; Natural resource management; Coastal management; Bangladesh and sea-level rise research; Governance of ecosystem services; Regional climate change in South ...
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Describing Services for Service Ecosystems [PDF]
, 2009 Service ecosystems are electronic market places and emerge as a result of the shift toward service economies. The aim of service ecosystems is to trade services over the internet. There are still obstacles that impede this new form of market places.
Gregor Scheithauer +2 more
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The Seasonal Change Detection of Seagrass Extent using Google Earth Engine [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesSeagrass ecosystems in eastern Indonesia play a crucial role in blue carbon storage, slowing climate change by absorbing and storing carbon in their sediments for decades.
Selamat Muhammad Banda +5 more
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Reservas de biomasa de árboles dispersos en potreros y mitigación al cambio climático.
Agronomía Mesoamericana, 2013 El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la contribución de los árboles en potreros a la mitigación al cambio climático mediante la estimación de las reservas de carbono en Costa Rica y Nicaragua.
Mario Chacón-León, Celia Alice-Harvey
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Complex drought patterns robustly explain global yield loss for major crops
Scientific Reports, 2022 Multi-purpose crops as maize, rice, soybean, and wheat are key in the debate concerning food, land, water and energy security and sustainability. While strong evidence exists on the effects of climate variability on the production of these crops, so far ...
Monia Santini +3 more
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Ecosystem Services: Response [PDF]
Science, 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 ...
Bateman, Ian +24 more
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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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