A blueprint towards accounting for the management of ecosystems

C Feger, L Mermet - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new ecological-issues-centered
accounting research agenda, at the crossroads of accounting research and conservation …

Conservation efforts based on local ecological knowledge: The role of social variables in identifying environmental indicators

A Sobral, MÁ LA TORRE, RRN Alves… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The incorporation of local ecological knowledge in monitoring processes has been one of
the great challenges of conservation initiatives worldwide. Therefore, it is essential to use …

Operationalizing a contested concept: indicators of territorial cohesion

H Dao, P Plagnat Cantoreggi… - European Planning …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
European territorial policies increasingly refer to broad goals such as sustainability, well-
being and cohesion. For their operationalization as political goals, there is a need to create …

Are disturbance gradients in neotropical ecosystems detected using rove beetles? A case study in the Brazilian Amazon

RL Cajaiba, E Périco, E Caron, MS Dalzochio… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Neotropics, Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) are known to be especially diverse
and abundant, but studies in this region are still incipient and the information is dispersed in …

Can dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) indicate the status of Amazonia's ecosystems? Insights integrating anthropogenic disturbance with seasonal patterns

RL Cajaiba, E Périco, WB da Silva, M Santos - Animal Biology, 2017 - brill.com
Temporal and spatial variation in dung beetles abundances is a pattern observed in many
tropical forests. The present study evaluated the seasonal patterns of dung beetles in a …

[PDF][PDF] Systems thinking and modelling for sustainable water resources management and agricultural development in the Volta River Basin, West Africa

JH Kotir - The University of Queensland: School of Earth and …, 2017 - academia.edu
It is well established that the conventional approaches to understanding and managing
natural resource systems such as the traditional linear-reductionist and mechanistic …

Assessing freshwater biodiversity: insights from different spatial contexts, taxonomic groups and response metrics

A Vilmi - 2017 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Tiivistelmä Makeanveden ekosysteemit ovat hyvin alttiita ihmistoiminnalle. Ekosysteemissä
mahdollisesti tapahtuvien muutosten havaitseminen vaatii tehokkaita vesistöjen ekologisen …

Habitat structural complexity of Caribbean coral reefs and its relationships with fish community structure

C Dryden - 2017 - theses.ncl.ac.uk
Habitat structural complexity (HSC) is a key component of natural ecosystems. It helps to
describe the morphological characteristics of the three-dimensional space that floral and …

[PDF][PDF] FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity monitoring and indicators of UK biodiversity change. A review for the FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity project.

R Burkmar - 2017 - tombio.uk
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines biodiversity as:" the variability among
living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic …

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C Fox, S Benjamins, E Masden, R Miller - 2017 - academia.edu
Despite this experience, several recent papers have identified significant shortcomings with
the 130 majority of environmental monitoring undertaken at these sites [27, 28, 35-44]. Weak …