Ecotoxicological effects of decommissioning offshore petroleum infrastructure: A systematic review

A MacIntosh, K Dafforn, B Penrose… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Successful decommissioning of subsea oil and gas infrastructure requires a safe and
effective approach to assess and manage waste products. These products, often present as …

Forested lands dominate drinking water supply in the conterminous United States

N Liu, PV Caldwell, GR Dobbs, CF Miniat… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Forests provide the most stable and highest quality water supplies among all land uses.
Quantitatively evaluating the benefits of forest water supply functions is important to …

The value of forest water purification ecosystem services in Costa Rica

M Piaggio, J Siikamäki - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest cover improves surface water quality by minimizing soil erosion, reducing sediment in
water and trap** or filtering water pollutants in forest litter. Because the amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Accounting for the water related ecosystem services of forests in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey

SE Esen, L Hein, G Cuceloglu - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to model hydrological ecosystem services provided by forests and explore
how they can be captured in an ecosystem accounting framework. We test a dynamic GIS …

Public perception of the performance of Czech forest ecosystem services

RC Purwestri, P Palátová, M Hájek, R Dudík… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, there has been growing interest in public valuation for forest ecosystem
services in policymaking. This paper investigates the public's perception of the Czech forest …

Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context

PV Caldwell, KL Martin, JM Vose, JS Baker… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conversion of natural land cover can degrade water quality in water supply watersheds and
increase treatment costs for Public Water Systems (PWSs), but there are few studies that …

Nature-based solutions to global environmental challenges

Z Kalantari, CSS Ferreira, H Pan, P Pereira - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions (NBS) supply many ecosystem services key to wellbeing. There is
evidence that several ecosystems that serve as NBS (eg, forests) are being threatened by …

Projecting future impacts of global change including fires on soil erosion to anticipate better land management in the forests of NW Portugal

AV Pastor, JP Nunes, R Ciampalini, M Koopmans… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wildfire is known to create the pre-conditions leading to accelerated soil erosion.
Unfortunately, its occurrence is expected to increase with climate change. The objective of …

Inter‐basin transfers extend the benefits of water from forests to population centers across the conterminous US

N Liu, GR Dobbs, PV Caldwell… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clean water from forests is commonly used to supply drinking water to communities both
within and outside basin boundaries through inter‐basin transfers (IBTs). Here, we modified …

Headwater-to-consumer drinking water security assessment framework and associated indicators for small communities in high-income countries

BD Nath, CJ Schuster-Wallace… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Springer
Drinking water insecurity in small and rural, remote, or otherwise marginalized communities
in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. These …