Ecosystem services: origins, contributions, pitfalls, and alternatives

S Lele, O Springate-Baginski, R Lakerveld… - Conservation and …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy
literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing …

Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

P Balvanera, M Uriarte, L Almeida-Leñero, A Altesor… - Ecosystem Services, 2012 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services science has developed at a fast rate in Latin America, a region
characterized by a high biological and cultural diversity, strong emphasis in foreign …

Assessing changes in the value of ecosystem services in response to land-use/land-cover dynamics in Nigeria

AO Arowolo, X Deng, OA Olatunji… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing human activities worldwide have significantly altered the natural ecosystems and
consequently, the services they provide. This is no exception in Nigeria, where land …

The impact of land use/land cover change on ecosystem services in the central highlands of Ethiopia

T Tolessa, F Senbeta, M Kidane - Ecosystem services, 2017 - Elsevier
Ecosystems provide a wide range of services that are important for human-well being.
Estimating the multiple services obtained from ecosystems is vital to support decision …

[HTML][HTML] Global significance of mangrove blue carbon in climate change mitigation

DM Alongi - Sci, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mangrove forests store and sequester large area-specific quantities of blue carbon (Corg).
Except for tundra and peatlands, mangroves store more Corg per unit area than any other …

Changes of ecosystem service values in response to land use/land cover dynamics in Munessa–Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands

M Kindu, T Schneider, D Teketay, T Knoke - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics alter ecosystem services values (ESVs), yet
quantitative evaluations of changes in ESVs are seldom attempted. Using Munessa …

Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery

AM Villamagna, PL Angermeier, EM Bennett - Ecological complexity, 2013 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services provide an instinctive way to understand the trade-offs associated with
natural resource management. However, despite their apparent usefulness, several hurdles …

Impacts of rural tourism-driven land use change on ecosystems services provision in Erhai Lake Basin, China

J Li, Y Bai, JM Alatalo - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Tourism is an expanding activity worldwide, with vital implications for local economies but
also for ecosystem management. Rural tourism in particular drives land use change, which …

Ecosystem service value of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau significantly increased during 25 years

W Jiang, Y Lü, Y Liu, W Gao - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
As a highly valuable region that provides multiple important ecosystem services, the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau is vulnerable to climate change and human activities, which have induced …

Quantifying and map** multiple ecosystem services change in West Africa

MDK Leh, MD Matlock, EC Cummings… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Although ecosystem services have been identified to be declining over the previous
decades, there is no clear methodology of evaluating the impacts of land use change on …