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Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and C...
Sandström, Camilla; Ring, Irene; Olschewski, Roland; Simoncini, Riccardo; Christian, Albert; Acar, Sevil; Adeishvili, Malkhaz; Allard, ChristinaRecent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the continuing loss of biodiversity. These assessments call for increasing conservation efforts and a more sustainable use of biodiversity to enhance the chances of halting biodiversity loss and...
Analysing carbon sequestration and storage dynamics in a changing mountain land...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Fonseca, Felícia; Gonçalves, João; Honrado, João P.; Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Alonso, Joaquim; Ramos, Maria; Azevedo, JoãoWe assessed the effects of landscape change on the climate regulation ecosystem service in a mountain river basin of Portugal, through the quantification, valuation and mapping of carbon sequestration and storage. The analyses were based on land use and land cover (LULC) changes that took place between 1990 and 2006 and on expected changes defined by three LULC change scenarios for 2020. We used the Integrated ...
Trade-offs and synergies between provisioning and regulating ecosystem services...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Nunes, João Pedro; Honrado, João P.; Alonso, Joaquim; Marta-Pedroso, CristinaThis study explored the effects of landscape change on the provision of ecosystem services in a mountain area in northern Portugal, in particular the trade-offs and synergies between services in 2 categories: provisioning and regulating. Services were assessed for 1990 and 2006 and projected for 2020 under 3 scenarios, both biophysically and economically, based on modeling and published and unpublished statisti...
Assessment of fire hazard regulation ecosystem service in a mountain area in no...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Alonso, Joaquim; Honrado, João P.; Perera, Ajith H.; Azevedo, JoãoThe fire hazard regulation ecosystem service (ES) is the capacity of ecosystems and landscapes to maintain the frequency and intensity of fire events. Assessing how ecosystems and landscapes regulate fire hazard is of utmost importance to avoid or mitigate negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts as well as to understand the benefits that human societies can obtain and their value. This study aimed to u...
Efeitos da alteração da paisagem no fornecimento de serviços de ecossistema na ...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Nunes, João Pedro; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Honrado, João P.; Alonso, Joaquim; Marta-Pedroso, CristinaA capacidade dos ecossistemas fornecerem serviços é determinada pela sua estrutura e processos biofísicos inerentes bem como por processos de outras naturezas que ocorrem a outras escalas. As alterações no uso e ocupação do solo apresentam-se como um importante processo em curso com potenciais efeitos no fornecimento desses serviços. Neste trabalho analisou-se o impacto das alterações no uso e ocupação do solo ...
Ecosystem services and landscape change: quantification and valuation of carbon...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Alonso, Joaquim; Honrado, João P.; Azevedo, JoãoForest ecosystems provide multiple services including climate regulation through e.g. Carbon Storage and Sequestration (CSS). However, the dynamics of this Ecosystem Service (ES) is strongly influenced by Land Use/ Land Cover (LULC) changes. In order to understand the influence of these changes in the provision of this ES through time, we quantified, mapped and valued CSS in the Sabor River’s upper basin (north...
Using ecosystem services trade-offs analysis to promote the incorporation of ch...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Nunes, João Pedro; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Honrado, João P.; Alonso, Joaquim; Marta-Pedroso, CristinaThe Montesinho Natural Park in Northeastern Portugal was established in 1979 to preserve a rich and diverse land mosaic maintained by moderate levels of human disturbance. The area has gone through fast social and economic changes that impacted the landscape and its natural values. However, the Natural Park has been unable to incorporate these changes into planning and management. In this work we analysed chang...
Quantificação, valoração e mapeamento de serviços de aprovisionamento em ecossi...
Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Azevedo, João; Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Sil, Ângelo FilipeOs ecossistemas do concelho de Bragança fornecem um conjunto vasto de benefícios à sociedade. Porém, os seus proprietários ou detentores de direitos de utilização, não obtêm benefícios proporcionais aos serviços prestados pelos ecossistemas. Isto deve-se, em certa medida, ao desconhecimento (por insuficiência de dados ou falta de integração dos dados existentes) que existe relativamente à quantificação e valora...
Tradeoffs among provisioning and regulation ecosystem services in mountain area...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Nunes, João Pedro; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Honrado, João P.; Alonso, Joaquim; Marta-Pedroso, CristinaMountain areas in Portugal provide a diversity of essential ecosystem services, including many provisioning and regulating services. These areas have gone through fast and significant landscape change over the past decades mainly driven by depopulation and agriculture abandonment. To understand how these changes affect the provision of ecosystem services (ESs) in mountain areas in Portugal and to gain insight i...
The impact of landscape changes on carbon sequestration and storage in the Sabo...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Alonso, Joaquim; Azevedo, JoãoThe landscape in northeastern Portugal has changed in the past decades mainly driven by depopulation and agriculture abandonment. These changes can have major impacts on the provision of ecosystem services including the climate regulation service. In order to assess the influence of landscape changes in the provision of this ecosystem service we quantified, valued and mapped carbon stored and sequestered in the...