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New paper from ESP Greek national network (HESP)

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New paper: Indicators for mapping and assessment of ecosystem condition and of the ecosystem service habitat maintenance in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

A new research paper has been recently published in One Ecosystem Journal. It presents an ecosystem service framework implementation at landscape level to map and assess ecosystem condition and the “maintenance of nursery populations and habitats” ecosystem service (ES) (hereinafter called “habitat maintenance”), by combining a series of indicators with spatial modelling techniques. [Read more…] about New paper from ESP Greek national network (HESP)

New Publications from Thematic WG 11 – Global ES flows

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A recent paper resulted from joint efforts of TWG 11 (Thematic Working Group on Global Ecoystem Service Flows) with the sDiv project sTeleBES. A new article has recently been published in the Journal of Ecological indicators entitled “Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows” [Read more…] about New Publications from Thematic WG 11 – Global ES flows

Updates from the Brazilian national network

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The members of the Brazil national network have several announcement from the past month, including a new publication, the firt seminar on waterhed management, and the finalisation of the TEEB Regional-Local project on ES and biodiversity.

Members of the network published a paper showing that postponing conservation actions will impair ecosystem services and increase conflict between conservation and human activities in the Brazilian Cerrado.  [Read more…] about Updates from the Brazilian national network

Improving ecosystem assessments in Mediterranean socio-ecological systems: new publication of the ESP Mediterranean working group

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Members of the ESP Mediterranean working group have just published an article in Ecosystems and People. The paper presents a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) methodology that seeks to provide guidance for better ecosystem assessments encompassing the Mediterranean region (e.g. the recently approved IPBES global assessment or the IPBES regional assessments). This work is the result of the joint efforts by many ESP Mediterranean members to collect comprehensive information about the complexity and uniqueness of Mediterranean socio-ecological systems. The original idea of this study has its origin in a workshop held in the 2016 European ESP conference in Antwerp. The publication is open-access and can be downloaded from here.