More green infrastructure is required to maintain ecosystem services under current trends in land-use change in Europe

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 517-534

  Maes, Joachim ^a   Barbosa, Ana ^a   Baranzelli, Claudia ^a   Zulian, Grazia ^a   Batista e Silva, Filipe ^a   Vandecasteele, Ine ^a   Hiederer, Roland ^a   Liquete, Camino ^a   Paracchini, Maria Luisa ^a   Mubareka, Sarah ^a   Jacobs Crisioni, Chris ^a   Castillo, Carolina Perpiña ^a   Lavalle, Carlo ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity strategy; Ecosystem services; European Union; Green infrastructure; Land use model; Scenario

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936988026     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0083-2     Document Type: Article

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