results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services … ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and …

In previous papers we have considered the optimal mix of biodiversity in semi-arid rangelands, focusing on the steady … trajectory of biodiversity change. There are two issues involved in the question of timing. One is the uncertainty associated …

Ecological reserve networks are an important strategy for conserving biodiversity. One approach to selecting reserves … value, minimizing the cost of the reserve network. The configuration of the reserve network as well as the biodiversity … improve biodiversity outcomes. The appropriateness of this approach for regional planning is discussed in light of key …

where use and non-use values are highest, which includes North America. -- Forest ; Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity … hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

influence in the management of the natural resources and biodiversity amongst rural communities in the transitional zone of … beliefs and perceptions of forest. Sacred groves are believed to be the abode of local gods, ancestral spirits and other super … natural beings. These beliefs and perceptions have in the past strongly supported the conservation of biodiversity. However …

This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …