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1. Link between biodiversity and ecosystem services

     Links between biodiversity and ecosystem services  Download the pdf version ... quantitative relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services is still poorly understood (Balvanera et ...

   Wijnja - 15/05/2017 - 15:33

2. OpenNESS cooperation with the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) project

   ... of BioVeL's main objectives is to create workflows for the ecosystem services (ES) community. Accordingly, there is a potential ... research at the BioVeL MS11 milestone event ‘ Ecosystem functioning & valuation web services and workflows ’. The ...

   Wijnja - 18/11/2013 - 16:41 - 0 comments

3. Thresholds, tipping points and limits

   ... called alternative stable states) of ecosystems and their functioning (Anderson et al. 2009), and/or their resilience. The concepts are ... nutrient input or temperature) changes gradually, the ecosystem state may either respond gradually itself (a), e.g. by a slow ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 16:41

4. Classification of Ecosystem Services

     Classification of Ecosystem Services Download the pdf version » ... and ‘State-of-the-art’ The classification of ecosystem services is challenging both conceptually and technically (cf. Sokal, ... Sustainable Ecosystem Management : If ecosystem functioning is to be restored then we need a set of consistent metrics that ...

   Wijnja - 16/09/2016 - 15:25

5. Witnessing the benefits of ecosystem services

   ... The benefits of a rich biodiversity and a healthy, functioning, ecosystem are not always obvious. However, that wasn’t the case at Loch ...

   Wijnja - 13/09/2013 - 13:36 - 0 comments

6. Meet our new OpenNESS research fellow

   ... community at INBO in Brussels. He will mainly be involved in ecosystem services demand analysis, looking at spatial and institutional ... biogeochemistry, over more applied ecology and ecosystem functioning as a PhD-student, towards interdisciplinary work as a post-doc. ...

   Wijnja - 02/04/2015 - 18:07 - 0 comments

7. Ecosystem Service Trade-offs and Synergies

     Ecosystem Service Trade-offs and Synergies   Download ... research has focussed on how a single (or at best a few) ecosystem service (ES) is supplied by certain ecosystems and/or demanded by ... it is important that we improve the understanding of the functioning of ecological processes which are important for service supply and ...

   Wijnja - 15/02/2017 - 20:59

8. Symposium co-organised by OpenNESS - OPERAs during landscape ecology congress

   ... plays in the operationalisation of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). Next to Joachim Maes ... of varying complexity to gain understanding on ecosystem functioning and trade-offs in different geographical contexts (case studies). ...

   Wijnja - 28/10/2013 - 17:36 - 0 comments

9. News

      Setting up an online ecosystem services platform 05 SEPTEMBER 2013 At a ... and OPERAs projects, plans for a common online platform for ecosystem services and natural capital were discussed. Researchers of both ... The benefits of a rich biodiversity and a healthy, functioning, ecosystem are not always obvious. However, that wasn’t the case ...

   Wijnja - 28/07/2014 - 18:00

10. Public Goods

      Public Goods and Ecosystem Services   Download the pdf version » ... 2011), presents a suite of challenges for biodiversity , Ecosystem Services (ES) and Natural Capital (NC) science and policy. For ... - perhaps not yet identified - may be essential to the functioning of ecosystems and thereby to security of stocks and flows of ES. ...

    Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 17:01

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