URBAN LAKES AND ITS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: SIGNIFICANCE, THREATS AND CONSERVATION

Marine Ecosystem Diversity in the Arabian Gulf: Threats and Conservation

Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

Despite increasing attention to the human dimension of conservation projects, a rigorous, systematic methodology for planning for ecosystem services has not been developed. This is in part because flows of ecosystem services remain poorly characterized at local-to-regional scales, and their protection has not generally been made a priority. We used a spatially explicit conservation planning fra...

etiology, significance, diagnosis and treatment of bruxiam

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Assessing Ecosystem Services to Identify Conservation Priorities

The history of life is fi lled with examples of one species diverging into several, even thousands, each with unique traits geared to the demands of its ecological niche. In the textbook case of adaptive radiation, an ancestral fi nch species landed on the Galapagos Islands just a few million years ago, and evolved into 13 new species with specialized beaks adapted to exploiting the various see...

Ecosystem Services and the Economics of Biodiversity Conservation

The concept of ecosystems services provides a robust and complementary rationale for biodiversity conservation to the traditional arguments based on intrinsic value. In principle, it also provides a mechanism for optimizing investments in biodiversity conservation and directing them to where they are most useful. This requires the valuation of ecosystem services, and in particular, the contribu...