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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)

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