This article discusses the role of forests at different elevations in providing ecosystem services, and particularly water. It analyses the changes in forest management and their consequences over the post liberation period, concentrating on the post-1983 devolution of forest management to villag...
Yu Xiaogang
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[Conflict in resource management for ecosystem services: water in Lashi watershed, Lijiang]
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Conflict in resource management for ecosystem services: water in Lashi watershed, Lijiang
Guariguata, M.R.
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Balvanera, Patricia
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[Tropical forest service flows: improving our understanding of the biophysical dimension of ecosystem services]
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Tropical forest service flows: improving our understanding of the biophysical dimension of ecosystem services
The potential for conservation of individual species has been greatly advanced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) development of objective, repeatable, and transparent criteria for assessing extinction risk that explicitly separate risk assessment from priority setting...
Rodríguez, J.P.
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Rodríguez Clark, K.M.
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Baillie, J.E.M.
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Ash, N.
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Benson, J.
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Boucher, T.
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Brown, C.
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Burgess, N.
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Collen, B.
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Jennings, M.
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Keith, D.A.
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Nicholson, E.
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Revenga, Carmen
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Reyers, B.
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Rouget, M.
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Smith, T.
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Spalding, M.
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Taber, A.
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Walpole, M.
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Zager, I.
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Zamin, T.
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[Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems]
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Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems
Tropical forests are decreasing at the rate of 16.9 million hectares per year due mainly to clearing for agriculture and shifting cultivation. Moreover, timber harvesting results in more than 5 million hectares of tropical forest becoming secondary forests every year. CIFOR has a mission to contr...
Kobayashi, S.
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[CIFOR/Japan Research Project on "Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems"]
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CIFOR/Japan Research Project on "Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems"
The watershed services provided by tropical natural and planted forests are critical to human well-being. An increasing number of valuation studies and experiences with payment for ecosystem services have dealt with the role of ecosystems in regulating the flow of water. However, several studies ...
Locatelli, Bruno
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Vignola, R.
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[Managing watershed services of tropical forests and plantations: can meta-analyses help?]
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Managing watershed services of tropical forests and plantations: can meta-analyses help?
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of N fertilization and the presence of N2 fixing leguminous trees on soil fluxes of greenhouse gases. For a one year period, we measured soil fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), related soil parameters (temp...
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Skiba, U.
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Harmand, J.M.
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Henault, C.
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[Fluxes of greenhouse gases from Andosols under coffee in monoculture or shaded by Inga densiflora in Costa Rica]
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Fluxes of greenhouse gases from Andosols under coffee in monoculture or shaded by Inga densiflora in Costa Rica
People’s perceptions of their environment
in high mountain rangelands ultimately
affect the fragile ecosystems on which
they depend, and thus their welfare. This is
especially true in developing countries,
where the livelihoods of people living in such ecosystems depend on grazing
livestock. The ...
Cruz, Mariana
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Quiróz, R.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[Use of Visual Material for Eliciting Shepherds’ Perceptions of Grassland in Highland Peru]
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Use of Visual Material for Eliciting Shepherds’ Perceptions of Grassland in Highland Peru
Vulnerability assessment is increasingly recognised as a starting point to identify climate adaptation needs and improve adaptive capacity. However, vulnerability assessments are challenging because of the complexity of multifaceted biophysical, human and institutional factors, interacting at dif...
Djoudi, H.
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Brockhaus, M.
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Locatelli, Bruno
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[Once there was a lake: vulnerability to environmental changes in northern Mali]
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Once there was a lake: vulnerability to environmental changes in northern Mali
This articles included in this special section focus on the ecological and economic interactions of woodland use in Western Zimbabwe. One of the aims was to investigate the use of modeling to achieve integration among disciplines. The integrated model draws on the models in the different papers c...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Costanza, R.
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Belt, M. van den
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[Special section: land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: introduction, overview and synthesis]
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Special section: land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: introduction, overview and synthesis