Mapping ecosystem service flows with land cover scoring maps for data-scarce regions

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-40

  Vrebos, Dirk ^a   Staes, Jan ^a   Vandenbroucke, Tom ^b   D'Haeyer, Tom ^b   Johnston, Robyn ^c   Muhumuza, Moses ^d   Kasabeke, Clovis ^d   Meire, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Antea Group   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^d MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Ecosystem service maps; Indicators; Land cover map; Natural resource management; Spatial flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930620326     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.005     Document Type: Article

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