Our dependence on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) is increasing, due to
population expansion and economic growth. Consequently, maintaining biodiversity and …

Protected areas (PAs) are globally important environmental management tools against the
effects of human activities, as they support the conservation of marine biodiversity, habitats …

Context The variation in spatial distribution between ecosystem services can be high.
Hence, there is a need to spatially identify important sites for conservation planning. The …

Context Spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) concerns, for example, identification of
spatial priorities for biodiversity conservation or for impact avoidance in economic …

Conservation priority setting is the critical process of allocating the limited resources
available for nature conservation and; safeguarding the sustainability of biodiversity and …

Ecosystem services are part and parcel of human lives. It is of paramount importance to
understand the interaction between these ecosystem services, as they are directly related to …

Managing Pinus elliotii forests for timber production and/or carbon sequestration is a
common management objective, but can negatively affect water yield due to high losses …

The understanding of protection initiatives' effects on the delivery of Ecosystem Services
(ESs) is of paramount importance to attain sustainable management in Protected Areas …

In Argentina, agricultural expansion and intensification has stimulated the utilization of the
ecosystem services (ES) approach to understand the consequences of land-use and land …

Inclusion of spatially explicit information on ecosystem services in conservation planning is a
fairly new practice. This study analyses how the incorporation of ecosystem services as …