However, the forest landscapes over which a range of ecosystem services is provided are often not considered in the development of forest management strategies. Even though much has been written on the ecosystem services received from forests, few examples exist in which this concept was effectively...
We provide examples of the response of bundled ecosystem services to climate and land use change in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States. These mountains have very high net primary productivity, biodiversity and water yields, and provide significant freshwater resources to surrounding...
Forest ecosystems are increasingly seen as multi-functional production systems, which should provide, besides timber and economic benefits, also other ecosystem services related to biological diversity, recreational uses and environmental functions of forests. This study analyzed the performance of even-aged...
Examples of the term in use:1. The Amazon rainforest is a vast and iconic example of this ecosystem.2. There is global concern over the destruction of rainforests.3. Large areas of tropical rainforest are being cleared for immediate economic gain.4. The impacts of climate change...
(EVLCM) of forest ecosystem,which could integrate the multidimensional classification index into one-dimensional projection value,with high projection value denoting high ecosystem services value.Examples of forest ecosystem could be reasonably classified by the new model according to their projection value...
Tree-related microhabitats (hereafter, “TreMs”) are key components of forest biodiversity but they are still poorly known in North American hardwood forests. The spatial patterns of living trees bearing TreMs (hereafter, “TreM-trees”) also remain to
Recently, a growing dichotomy between species-based and ecosystem-based conservation has emerged (Sergio et al., 2003). Key examples are the ‘flagship species’ and ‘ecosystem services’ paradigms, respectively. Although not necessarily binary views – e.g. flagship species approaches often aim ...
A second way to weight species biodiversity is to recognize the unique biodiversity of those environments that contain few species but unusual ones. Dramatic examples come from extreme environments such as the summits of active Antarctic volcanoes (e.g., Mt. Erebus [seeRoss Island] and Mt. Melbo...
The proposed approach is discussed on the basis of examples from a broad set of other domains. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 展开 关键词: Forest monitoring Forest observational studies Social media mining Forest ecosystem services Anthropocene Societal context ...
The aim of the present article is to further develop forest ecosystem service assessment using a systematic approach to assess biophysical indicators for ecosystem services. In this way, we aim to promote the use of forest function mapping, which is an important planning tool in the Central ...