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Trade-offs and synergies in the ecosystem service demand of urban brownfield stakeholders [PDF]
, 2020 Brownfield site redevelopment presents an opportunity to create urban green spaces that provide a wide range of ecosystem services. It is important, therefore, to understand which ecosystem services are demanded by stakeholders and whether there are ...
Goddard, Mark +4 more
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Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons [PDF]
, 2018 The natural conservation of coastal lagoons is important not only for their ecological importance, but also because of the valuable ecosystem services they provide for human welfare and wellbeing.
Angus, Stewart +35 more
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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
, 2017 Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo +4 more
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Wildfires as an ecosystem service [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2019 Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be understood as natural processes that provide a variety of benefits to humankind. Wildfires generate open habitats that enable the evolution of a diversity of shade‐intolerant plants ...
Pausas, J. G., Keeley, J. E.
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Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services
Land, 2021 Agroforestry, land use at the agriculture-forestry interface that implies the presence of trees on farms and/or farmers in forests, has a history that may be as old as agriculture, but as an overarching label and topic of formal scientific analysis, it ...
Meine van Noordwijk
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Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]
, 2019 Identifying which ecosystem services are relevant to different stakeholders and understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of such services is useful for making informed decisions, especially in regions of the world where the achievement of biodiversity ...
Bidegain, Iñigo +4 more
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Ecosystem services in Norway [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2017 The present study is reviewing public reports and research articles in order to estimate and validate ecosystem services in Norway, and investigate conflicts between stakeholders representing different ecosystem services, by means of direct and indirect methods, for different main ecosystem categories,e.g.
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Climate change induced transformations of agricultural systems: insights from a global model
Environmental Research Letters, 2014 Climate change might impact crop yields considerably and anticipated transformations of agricultural systems are needed in the coming decades to sustain affordable food provision.
D Leclère +9 more
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Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services
Ecology and Society, 2021 We propose an alternative methodology for engaging with multifaceted cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the Global South. We explore the use of dialogue as a tool for understanding CES in situ, while developing shared action steps toward CES ...
Karen E. Allen +2 more
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Global Overview of Ecosystem Services Provided by Riparian Vegetation
BioScience, 2020 Fluvial riparian vegetation (RV) links fluvial and terrestrial ecosystems. It is under significant pressure from anthropogenic activities, and, therefore, the management and restoration of RV are increasingly important worldwide.
T. Riis +14 more
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