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1. Link between biodiversity and ecosystem services

   ... still poses uncertainties about the role of individual species and other components of biodiversity in the supply of ecosystem ... the definition given by the CBD which is: " Biological diversity " means the variability among living organisms from all sources ...

   Wijnja - 15/05/2017 - 15:33

2. Sustainable Ecosystem Management

   ... towards either the conservation of single iconic species , or the production of single resources such as timber or food. ... ES cascade model: ecosystem structure (e.g. species diversity ), function (e.g. water and nutrient cycling) and ES delivery (e.g. ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 16:47

3. Ecosystem services and human health

   ... Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) in October 2014, which encouraged Parties to ... or use of specific elements of biodiversity e.g., species or genetic resources), (2) for many communities the relationships ...

   Wijnja - 15/02/2017 - 21:29

4. Indicators

   ... nested hierarchies. Accordingly, an indicandum such as diversity , which can be assessed through an ecological indicator such as species richness , can in turn be itself an indicator for the ecological ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 15:16

5. Social Justice

   ... Rio Declaration (1992), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) and Rio+20 outcomes (2012). Within the broader ... intra-generational justice, inter-generational and inter- species justice issues are also put onto the agenda (Lele, 2013). The first ...

   Wijnja - 15/02/2017 - 21:47

6. Case 09 - Cairngorms National Park management

   ... landscapes in Britain and is home to an incredible diversity of wildlife and plants. The OpenNESS team partnered with the newly ... livestock and wildlife) prevalence of Cryptosporidium species in selected catchment area(s) in the Cairngorms National Park and ...

   Wijnja - 07/10/2016 - 16:18

7. Green Infrastructure

   ... dynamic component expressing how landscapes allow various species to move and expand to new areas (Saura et al., 2014). Structural ... and services, ecosystem health (such as habitat diversity ) and four aspects of human health (physical, psychological, ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 14:41

8. Resilience

   ... act on ecosystems and generate the interactions between species , communities and the physical environment. Similarly, social ... adaptive capacity (linked to education and diversity of income), and the stability of these factors over time (UN ... practices. These principles include (1) Maintaining diversity and redundancy, (2) Managing connectivity, (3) Managing slow ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 14:47

9. Ecosystem service bundles

   ... between ES and “biodiversity”, as represented by mean species abundance (MSA), tree diversity and the percentage of land covered by Natura 2000 sites. They found ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 15/02/2017 - 20:26

10. Public Goods

    ... that, due to their multiple interdependencies, individual species can have a value to society far beyond their intrinsic value (or beyond any direct market value or use value). Genetic diversity , whilst being critical to species survival, is also crucial to the ...

    Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 17:01

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