An assessment of soil erosion prevention by vegetation in Mediterranean Europe: Current trends of ecosystem service provision

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 60, Issue , 2016, Pages 213-222

  Guerra, Carlos A ^a,b   Maes, Joachim ^b   Geijzendorffer, Ilse ^c   Metzger, Marc J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change detection; Ecosystem service mapping; Indicators; Policy support; RUSLE; Trend assessment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EROSION; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MAPPING; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CHANGE DETECTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; POLICY SUPPORT; RUSLE; TREND ASSESSMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AGROFORESTRY; BIOINDICATOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND MANAGEMENT; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84937604705     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.06.043     Document Type: Article

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