The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services … aims to highlight the mapping of biodiversity indicators and assesses their respective role on the valuation exercise. Our … results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …

about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha … are combined into a single sample) have been developed (Whittaker, 1960). Biodiversity is more complex than just the … by biodiversity indices such as Simpson's Diversity Indices, Species Richness Index, Shannon Weaver Diversity Indices …

Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so … cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers …

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 …