Assessing the distribution of forest ecosystem services in a highly populated Mediterranean region

“forest Ecosystem Services:

1. Forests (natural but also human-made or modified) are among the most important providers of ecosystem services for the whole world. 2. Based on scientific evidence, it is certain that: (a) Ecosystem services are essential to the survival of human beings. (b) Forest ecosystems operate and provide services on such a grand scale and in such intricate and little-explored ways that most cannot ef...

Assessing the use of forest ecosystem services analyses as a national policy-making tool in Peru

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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A Ground-Based Method of Assessing Urban Forest Structure and Ecosystem Services

To properly manage urban forests, it is essential to have data on this important resource. An efficient means to obtain this information is to randomly sample urban areas. To help assess the urban forest structure (e.g., number of trees, species composition, tree sizes, health) and several functions (e.g., air pollution removal, carbon storage and sequestration), the Urban Forest Effects (UFORE...

DIVERSITY IN THE BOREAL FOREST OF ALASKA: DISTRIBUTION AND IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES By

Within the forest management community, diversity is often considered as simply a list of species present at a location. In this study, diversity refers to species richness and evenness and takes into account vegetation structure (i.e. size, density, and complexity) that characterize a given forest ecosystem and can typically be measured using existing forest inventories. Within interior Alaska...