Land-use impacts on the quantity and configuration of ecosystem service provisioning in Massachusetts, USA

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1009-1019

  Blumstein, Meghan ^a   Thompson, Jonathan R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management; Ecosystem services; Forests; Hotspots; Land use change; Massachusetts; Scale

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST COVER; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMBER HARVESTING;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948717280     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12444     Document Type: Article

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