National Ecosystem Assessments in Europe: A Review

BioScience

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 813-828

  Schröter, Matthias ^a   Albert, Christian ^b,c   Marques, Alexandra ^d   Tobon, Wolke ^a   Lavorel, Sandra ^e   Maes, Joachim ^f   Brown, Claire ^g   Klotz, Stefan ^a   Bonn, Aletta ^h  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e CNRS and Laboratoire D'Ecologie Alpine   (France)

^f Joint Research Council of the European Commission   (France)

^g UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^h FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

boundary object; conservation; ecosystem service mapping; IPBES; quantification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994235689     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw101     Document Type: Review

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