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Patricia Balvanera
Researcher at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Publications - 141
Citations - 20113
Patricia Balvanera is an academic researcher from National Autonomous University of Mexico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 131 publications receiving 16076 citations. Previous affiliations of Patricia Balvanera include Columbia University & Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services.
Patricia Balvanera,A. B. Pfisterer,Nina Buchmann,Jing Shen He,Tohru Nakashizuka,David Raffaelli,Bernhard Schmid +6 more
TL;DR: The first rigorous quantitative assessment of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem process rates through meta-analysis of experimental work spanning 50 years to June 2004 shows that biodiversity effects are weaker if biodiversity manipulations are less well controlled.
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Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century
Henrique M. Pereira,Paul Leadley,Vania Proenca,Rob Alkemade,Joern P. W. Scharlemann,Juan F. Fernández-Manjarrés,Miguel B. Araújo,Miguel B. Araújo,Patricia Balvanera,Reinette Biggs,William W. L. Cheung,Louise Chini,H. David Cooper,Eric Gilman,Sylvie Guénette,George C. Hurtt,George C. Hurtt,Henry P. Huntington,Georgina M. Mace,Thierry Oberdorff,Carmen Revenga,Patrícia Rodrigues,Robert J. Scholes,Ussif Rashid Sumaila,Matt Walpole +24 more
TL;DR: Scenarios consistently indicate that biodiversity will continue to decline over the 21st century, however, the range of projected changes is much broader than most studies suggest, partly because there are major opportunities to intervene through better policies, but also because of large uncertainties in projections.
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The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems
Bradley J. Cardinale,Kristin L. Matulich,David U. Hooper,Jarrett E. K. Byrnes,Emmett Duffy,Lars Gamfeldt,Patricia Balvanera,Mary I. O'Connor,Andrew Gonzalez +8 more
TL;DR: Several new questions must now be addressed if this field is going to evolve into a predictive science that can help conserve and manage ecological processes in ecosystems, including questions about how primary producer diversity influences the efficiency of resource use and biomass production in ecosystems.
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Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach
Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Patricia Balvanera,Sandra Díaz,György Pataki,Eva Roth,Marie Stenseke,Robert T. Watson,Esra Başak Dessane,Mine Islar,Eszter Kelemen,Virginie Maris,Martin F. Quaas,Suneetha M. Subramanian,Heidi Wittmer,Asia Adlan,So Eun Ahn,Yousef S. Al-Hafedh,Edward Amankwah,Stanley T. Asah,Pam Berry,Adem Bilgin,Sara Jo Breslow,Craig Bullock,Daniel Cáceres,Hamed Daly-Hassen,Eugenio Figueroa,Christopher D. Golden,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,David González-Jiménez,Joël Houdet,Hans Keune,Ritesh Kumar,Keping Ma,Peter H. May,Aroha Te Pareake Mead,Patrick J. O’Farrell,Ram Pandit,Walter Pengue,Ramón Pichis-Madruga,Florin Popa,Susan Preston,Diego Pacheco-Balanza,Heli Saarikoski,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Marjan van den Belt,Madhu Verma,Fern Wickson,Noboyuki Yagi +51 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the rationale for the inclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) in decision making, as well as broad methodological steps for doing so, and argue that transformative practices aiming at sustainable futures would benefit from embracing such diversity, which require recognizing and addressing power relationships across stakeholder groups that hold different values on human nature-relations and NCP.
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Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
Kai M. A. Chan,Patricia Balvanera,Karina Benessaiah,Mollie Chapman,Sandra Díaz,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Rachelle K. Gould,Neil Hannahs,Kurt Jax,Sarah C. Klain,Gary W. Luck,Berta Martín-López,Barbara Muraca,Bryan G. Norton,Konrad Ott,Unai Pascual,Terre Satterfield,Marc Tadaki,Jonathan Taggart,Nancy J. Turner +19 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views on personal and collective well-being, or “what is right,” with regard to nature and the environment, and it is time to engage seriously with a third class of values, one with diverse roots and current expressions: relational values.