Partition of some key regulating services in terrestrial ecosystems: Meta-analysis and review

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 562, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-60

  Viglizzo, E F ^a,b,c   Jobbagy E G ^b,d   Ricard, M F ^b,c   Paruelo, J M ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^d Grupo de Estudios Ambientales IMASL   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biomass stock; Eco services; Ecological functions; Scale dependent control; Topography; Water pathways

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ECO-SERVICES; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; WATER-PATHWAY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON; WATER;

AFFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOSPHERE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; HYDROSPHERE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; RUNOFF; SOIL CHANGE; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE WATERS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER FLOW; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; META ANALYSIS; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84963684495     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.201     Document Type: Article

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