Hydrological services and the role of forests: Conceptualization and indicator-based analysis with an illustration at a regional scale

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-80

  Carvalho Santos, Claudia ^a,b   Honrado, João Pradinho ^a   Hein, Lars ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual framework; Forests; Hydrological services; Indicators; Northern Portugal; Social ecological; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907462969     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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