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Avulsions Drive Ecosystem Services And Economic Changes In The Brazilian Pantanal Wetlands, Rômullo O. Louzada, Ivan Bergier, Fabio O. Roque, Michael M. Mcglue, Aguinaldo Silva, Mario L. Assine
Avulsions Drive Ecosystem Services And Economic Changes In The Brazilian Pantanal Wetlands, Rômullo O. Louzada, Ivan Bergier, Fabio O. Roque, Michael M. Mcglue, Aguinaldo Silva, Mario L. Assine
Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications
The Pantanal wetland is a mosaic of landscapes that brings together rich biodiversity with the valuable activities of fishing, tourism and ranching. Human occupation and land use in the headwaters have intensified the rate of channel avulsions in the lower reaches of the largest megafan on the Taquari River. This study evaluates the long-term changes of landscapes in the active depositional lobe of the Taquari megafan from the perspective of local communities of pantaneiros. Maps derived from multiple decades of multispectral Landsat data have proven useful for studying land cover changes through the relationship between dry (terrestrial vegetation and …
Bundles And Hotspots Of Multiple Ecosystem Services For Optimized Land Management In Kentucky, United States, Yang Bai, Thomas O. Ochuodho, Jian Yang, Domena A. Agyeman
Bundles And Hotspots Of Multiple Ecosystem Services For Optimized Land Management In Kentucky, United States, Yang Bai, Thomas O. Ochuodho, Jian Yang, Domena A. Agyeman
Forestry and Natural Resources Faculty Publications
Ecosystem services are benefits that the natural environment provides to support human well-being. A thorough understanding and assessment of these services are critical to maintain ecosystem services flow through sustainable land management to optimize bundles of ecosystem services provision. Maximizing one particular ecosystem service may lead to reduction in another. Therefore, identifying ecosystem services tradeoffs and synergies is key in addressing this challenge. However, the identification of multiple ecosystem services tradeoffs and synergies is still limited. A previous study failed to effectively capture the spatial interaction among ecosystem services as it was limited by “space-to-time” substitution method used because of …