Recently, Ana Paula García-Nieto and other colleagues of the ESP Mediterranean Biome Working group published an analysis of the “Impacts of urbanization around Mediterranean cities: Changes in ecosystem service supply”. For eight European and four North African cities, we have quantified changes in peri-urban land cover, for periods of sixteen years (1990–2006) in the Northern African, and twenty-two years (1990–2012) in the European cities. Based on land cover changes and using an expert based method, we derived quantitative estimates of the dynamics in the supply of twenty-seven ecosystem services. [Read more…] about New publication on the impacts of urbanization in ES supply by members of the ESP Mediterranean WG
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A workshop on assessing and analyzing multi-species natural forest in Turkey
Dear ESP community,
A workshop on multi-species natural forests will be held in Artvin (Turkey) between 3-13 May 2018 with the participation of Prof. Klaus v. Gadow along with many others. This workshop will be a great opportunity for both researchers and field practitioners to discuss various inventory techniques in designing forest ecosystems. [Read more…] about A workshop on assessing and analyzing multi-species natural forest in Turkey
New report on Ecosystem Services Accounting released by the JRC
The European Commission Joint Research Center has just released the second report on Natural Capital Accounting: “Ecosystem services accounting: Part I – Outdoor recreation and crop pollination”. You can download the full report on this page.
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