Symbolic species as a cultural ecosystem service in the European Alps: insights and open issues

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 711-730

  Schirpke, Uta ^a,b   Meisch, Claude ^a   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cultural ecosystem services; Cultural identity; Habitat maps; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT TYPE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MAP; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALPS; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AQUILA; CAPRA IBEX; GENTIANA; LARIX; MARMOTA; RUPICAPRA RUPICAPRA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 85046339040     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0628-x     Document Type: Article

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