22 Mar Integrating natural capital assessment and marine spatial planning: A case study in the Mediterranean sea

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In this study, the natural capital of the Egadi Islands marine protected area was assessed using a biophysical and trophodynamic environmental accounting model. The emergent value of autotrophic and heterotrophic natural capital stocks was calculated for the main habitats of the protected area. Finally, the...

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21 Mar Integration of Agriculture and Wildlife Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Westham Island, British Columbia, Canada

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This study assessed the effects of integrating agricultural programmes and the maintenance of waterbird habitats by applying the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework in a peri-urban region of Westham Island in British Columbia, Canada. An InVEST model was used to assess potential ecosystem services by integrating...

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21 Mar Restoring and managing natural capital towards fostering economic development: Evidence from the Drakensberg, South Africa

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In this study, the benefits and costs of managing a mountain catchment in the northern Drakensberg (South Africa) were quantified. To do this, an ACRU agrohydrological simulation model was used to analyse simulated changes in winter baseflow (April-September) and annual sediment yield, following changes in...

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21 Mar Ecosystem accounting for measuring total income in private and public agroforestry farms

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grouped into private and public activities and measured in a manner consistent with the exchange value principle of standard national accounts. Private outputs include timber, cork, fuelwood, forest conservation, grazing, livestock, hunting, crops and private services, while public outputs include fungi, carbon, water, public recreation,...

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21 Mar Natural capital accounting in marine protected areas: The case of the Islands of Ventotene and S. Stefano (Central Italy)

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In this study, the value of natural capital in the marine protected area "Ventotene and S. Stefano Islands" (central Italy) was assessed by applying a biophysical and trophodynamic environmental accounting model based on emergy accounting. The value of natural capital was estimated for the main...

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21 Mar Assessing the value of natural capital in marine protected areas: A biophysical and trophodynamic environmental accounting model

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In this study, a biophysical and trophodynamic environmental accounting model is developed to assess the value of natural capital in marine protected areas. The natural capital assessment model is based on three main stages: 1) trophodynamic analysis, providing an estimate of the primary productivity used...

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20 Mar Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services: Demand and supply of pollination in the European Union

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"This paper quantifies both demand and supply of pollination in the European Union (EU) at a relatively high spatial resolution, allowing an analysis of the match between demand and supply. Firstly, a crop area requiring pollination for optimal production (demand) and both bee habitat and...

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19 Mar The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK

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Through experiences from a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK, a number of issues are raised that need to be considered, including the choice of metrics for monitoring ecosystem services and the difficulties of assessing interactions between ecosystem processes, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In monitoring...

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19 Mar Remote sensing for mapping ecosystem services to support evaluation of ecological restoration interventions in an arid landscape

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This study obtained information through remote sensing of Sentinel-2 imagery, together with soil and terrain data, to estimate the provision of ecosystem services and evaluate integrated ecological restoration interventions in the arid, rural landscape of the Baviaanskloof Hartland Bawarea Conservancy (South Africa), where several integrated...

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19 Mar Mapping Ecological Processes and Ecosystem Services for Prioritizing Restoration Efforts in a Semi-arid Mediterranean

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"The study takes place in the Ebro basin, specifically in a semi-arid and degraded area in northeastern Spain. First, the ecosystem services linked to the main ecological functions of the basin threatened by soil erosion were determined: water flow regulation, surface water supply, erosion control,...

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