Emergy-based evaluation of ecosystem services: Progress and perspectives

C Zhang, B Su, M Beckmann, M Volk - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review investigates the potential of the emergy analysis (EMA) as a new perspective
and approach to the worldwide used ecosystem services (ESs) framework to quantify and …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for developing blue carbon initiatives and payment …

AP Hejnowicz, H Kennedy, MA Rudd… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass ecosystems provide numerous ecosystem services that support coastal
communities around the world. They sustain abundant marine life as well as commercial …

Seagrass meadows globally as a coupled social–ecological system: Implications for human wellbeing

LC Cullen-Unsworth, LM Nordlund, J Paddock… - Marine pollution …, 2014 - Elsevier
Seagrass ecosystems are diminishing worldwide and repeated studies confirm a lack of
appreciation for the value of these systems. In order to highlight their value we provide the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of Sargassum inundations on the Turks and Caicos Islands

D Bartlett, F Elmer - Phycology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since 2011, holopelagic Sargassum fluitans and natans have been arriving en masse to the
wider Caribbean region and West Africa, impacting near-shore habitats and coastal …

An ecosystems perspective for food security in the Caribbean: Seagrass meadows in the Turks and Caicos Islands

S Baker, J Paddock, AM Smith, RKF Unsworth… - Ecosystem Services, 2015 - Elsevier
Drawing attention to interactions between processes affecting biodiversity loss in marine
environments and effects on food security, we draw on research in the Turks and Caicos …

A baited remote underwater video system (BRUVS) assessment of elasmobranch diversity and abundance on the eastern Caicos Bank (Turks and Caicos Islands); an …

S Bruns, AC Henderson - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2020 - Springer
The present study was undertaken to assess the diversity and abundance of elasmobranch
fishes in coral reef and sand flat environments on the eastern Caicos Bank, with a view to …

What is the economic value of coastal and marine ecosystem services? A systematic literature review

JD Lopez-Rivas, JC Cardenas - Marine Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the economic value of marine and coastal ecosystem services by
analyzing 67 studies published in scientific literature. It appraises, collects, and analyzes …

Site affinity of whitespotted eagle rays Aetobatus narinari assessed using photographic identification

KI Flowers, AC Henderson, JL Lupton… - Journal of fish …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photographic identification was used to track the movements of the whitespotted eagle ray
Aetobatus narinari around South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands. A total of 165 individuals …

[图书][B] Island shores, distant pasts: archaeological and biological approaches to the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean

SM Fitzpatrick, AH Ross - 2017 - books.google.com
" An excellent compilation of new methods and theories in Caribbean archaeology.... Not
only materialize [s] the methodological advance in Caribbean archaeology, but also signif …

Implications of seagrass ecosystem degradation on marine resources and people's livelihood: a case study from Komave Village, Fiji

L Joseph, P Singh, AA Singh… - Asian Journal of …, 2019 - archive.sdpublishers.com
Tropical coastal zones have rich marine ecosystems; however, they have been enduring
severe environmental hazards, particularly from anthropogenic activity and the effects of …