Assessing the Capacity of Ecosystems to Supply Ecosystem Services Using Remote Sensing and An Ecosystem Accounting Approach

Environmental Management

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 1-15

  Vargas, Leonardo ^a   Willemen, Louise ^b   Hein, Lars ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass; Colombia; Ecosystem capacity; Ecosystem change; Net primary productivity; Orinoco river basin

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; PALM OIL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; WATERSHEDS;

CAPACITY ASSESSMENT; COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM CHANGES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON; FRESH WATER; RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOVINE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM ACCOUNTING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ELAEIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FRUIT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HARVESTING; LAND USE; NATIONAL PARK; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OIL PALM PLANTATION; PASTURE; PLANTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; ROOT SYSTEM; SAVANNA; TIMBER; WATER STRESS; WOODY SAVANNAH; ANIMAL; RIVER;

COLOMBIA; ORINOCO BASIN;

BOS; ELAEIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RIVERS;

EID: 85054089936     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-018-1110-x     Document Type: Article

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