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Forest Ecosystem Services for Human Health
2021This chapter reviews researches showing the great potential of non-timber use of forest products, in particular needles, bark, wood, and cones from conifer species, which are especially rich of essential micronutrients and could substantially contribute to their adequate intake in the human diet.
Francesco Meneguzzo, Federica Zabini
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Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016
Summary Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society, forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our future. This is especially true when the roles of biodiversity for sustaining ecosystem services are considered.
Akira S. Mori +2 more
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Summary Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society, forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our future. This is especially true when the roles of biodiversity for sustaining ecosystem services are considered.
Akira S. Mori +2 more
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Monitoring Changes in Ecosystem Services Within a Forest Ecosystem
2014The importance of ecosystem services has been widely accepted since the publication of both the United Nations 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, which assess future scenarios with and without ecosystem services, respectively. To sustainably maintain ecosystem services, assessment of the current state
Kimiko Okabe, Hisatomo Taki
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Ecosystem Services with Diverse Forest Landowners
2017Pacific Northwest moist coniferous forests provide a wide array of globally important goods and services, including water, carbon sequestration, wood products, fish and wildlife habitat, cultural values, and world-class recreation. These forests are owned and managed by a mix of public, private, and tribal landowners (plates 6, 7), however, who often ...
Robert L. Deal +5 more
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Forest ecosystem services and their values in Beijing
Chinese Geographical Science, 2010As the most important ecosystem in Beijing, the forest supports a lot of ecosystem services to local and around communities, which plays a key role in the maintenance of urban ecological security. However, the valuation on the forest ecosystem services based on regional scale could not provide precise and reasonable values for forestry sector ...
Gaodi Xie +8 more
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Forest Service Perspective on Ecosystem Management
Ecological Applications, 1996The U.S. Forest Service was the first agency in the federal government to adopt an ecological approach to the management of public lands. In 1992, Chief F Dale Robertson stated that "an ecological approach will be used to achieve the multiple-use management of the national forests and grasslands." He went on to say that this means "that we must blend ...
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Ecosystem Services of Trees Outside Forest
2019Trees or other woody vegetation growing outside designated forest areas are known as trees outside forest (TOFs). These trees have many ecosystem services and economic benefits like their potential role in agriculture, food supply and income by providing goods and services, conservation of biodiversity and carbon (C) sequestration.
Sumit Chakravarty +8 more
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Approaches to ecosystem services assessment in forest ecosystems
2008Ecosystem goods and services and their continued delivery are essential to our economic prosperity and well-being (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Modifications of ecosystems to enhance one service generally have come at a cost to other services due to trade-offs.
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