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Valuing forest ecosystem services: What we know and what we don't
K. N. Ninan,Makoto Inoue +1 more
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In this paper, the authors review the studies that have tried to estimate the value of forest ecosystem services and discuss the shortcomings of existing studies, and suggest that future research should focus on the neglected ecosystem services, "disservices", assessing the role of dynamic factors and environmental catastrophes on the provision of ecosystem services.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecosystem valuation & Ecosystem services.read more
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Trap deployment along linear transects perpendicular to forest edges: impact on capture of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
TL;DR: Results demonstrate that non-targeted surveys for Cerambycidae should deploy traps in multiple locations along the forest edge-interior gradient and that taxa-specific surveys should be developed based on knowledge of how this gradient impacts trap performance.
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The Economic Evaluation of Forest Protection Service Against Rockfall: A Review of Experiences and Approaches
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive overview depicting a state-of-the-art of economic evaluation of mountain ecosystem services, noting their main features, approaches and results, and make a contribution to the increasing awareness of forests as a cost-efficient part of natural hazard management strategies in the Alpine Space.
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Nitrogen deposition and climate change effects on tree species composition and ecosystem services for a forest cohort.
George Van Houtven,Jennifer Phelan,Christopher M. Clark,Robert D. Sabo,John Buckley,R. Quinn Thomas,Kevin J. Horn,Stephen D. LeDuc +7 more
TL;DR: The effects of two environmental drivers, nitrogen (N) deposition and climate change, are isolated through an analysis of a single cohort of 24 dominant tree species, which provides a foundation for future studies that may incorporate other important factors such as multiple cohorts, sulfur deposition, insects, and diseases.
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Payment for forest environmental services in Vietnam: An analysis of buyers’ perspectives and willingness
TL;DR: In this paper, a Payment for Forest Environment Services (PFES) policy that creates a market by collecting payments from a rather limited set of ecosystem services (ES) buyers and setting up a forest protection and development fund is discussed.
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A review of regulation ecosystem services and disservices from faunal populations and potential impacts of agriculturalisation on their provision, globally
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview on the current and future status of regulation FES in response to change from original habitat to agricultural land globally, and summarise the main findings showing the importance of animal populations as FES providers and as a source of ecosystem disservices.
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza,Rudolf de Groot,Stephen Farberk,Monica Grasso,Bruce Hannon,Karin E. Limburg,Shahid Naeem,José M. Paruelo,Robert Raskin,Paul Suttonkk,Marjan van den Belt +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes, based on published studies and a few original calculations, for the entire biosphere, the value (most of which is outside the market) is estimated to be in the range of US$16-54 trillion (10^(12)) per year, with an average of US $33 trillion per year.
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Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.
Sebastiaan Luyssaert,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Annett Börner,Alexander Knohl,Dominik Hessenmöller,Beverly E. Law,Philippe Ciais,John Grace +7 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that old-growth forests can continue to accumulate carbon, contrary to the long-standing view that they are carbon neutral, and suggest that 15 per cent of the global forest area, which is currently not considered when offsetting increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, provides at least 10 per cent the global net ecosystem productivity.
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CO 2 emissions from forest loss
G. R. van der Werf,Douglas C. Morton,Ruth DeFries,J. G. J. Olivier,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Robert B. Jackson,G. J. Collatz,James T. Randerson +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the second largest anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, after fossil fuel combustion, is revised downwards, but tropical peatlands emerge as a notable carbon dioxide source.
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Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
TL;DR: Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental and public health problems facing human society as mentioned in this paper, and each year about 10 million-ha of cropland is lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the croplands available for food production.