Societal demand for vitally important hydrological and other forest ecosystem services (FES)
has been rapidly increasing due to accelerating socioeconomic development and global …

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as a technology capable of generating
descriptors of vegetation structure and best available terrain information. Research and …

The impacts of land-use change on ecosystem services (ESs) are currently a high profile
issue, but the impacts of land-use configuration change on ESs have not been well studied …

Local infiltration and surface runoff generation depends on local land use, soil type,
antecedent soil water content and slope, while runoff accumulation downstream is …

India's land use pattern has witnessed significant changes over time. Various studies have
pointed out that land use changes in India indicate a trend towards increasing urbanisation …

Forested catchments are generally assumed to provide higher quality water in opposition to
agricultural and urban catchments. However, this should be tested in various ecological …

Large-scale vegetation restoration has caused complex changes in ecosystem service (ie,
ES) interactions. However, current analysis on the spatial interactions of ESs and their …

Maps of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly useful for reporting on the potential
impacts of human activity on the environment. However, interactions in watersheds are …

Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF) have paramount importance with regards to
hydrological and ecological functions. Despite such importance in terms of water provision …

Headwater streams play a major role for provision of ecosystem services, eg drinking water.
We investigated a high-altitude headwater catchment of the Kharaa River (including 41 1st …