Strong and nonlinear effects of fragmentation on ecosystem service provision at multiple scales

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Mitchell, Matthew G E ^a   Bennett, Elena M ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ecosystem service flow; ecosystem service supply; landscape fragmentation; landscape structure; spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR EFFECT; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUANTITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; SERVICE PROVISIONS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NONLINEARITY; SPATIAL PLANNING; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84945184509     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094014     Document Type: Article

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