Spatial assessment of the impact of land use and land cover change on supply of ecosystem services in Phewa watershed, Nepal

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 36, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Paudyal, Kiran ^a,b   Baral, Himlal ^c   Bhandari, Santosh P ^d   Bhandari, Anil ^e   Keenan, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Forest Action ^*  (Nepal)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benefit relevant indicators; Biophysical approach; Community based forestry; Ecosystem services assessment; Sediment retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061016593     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100895     Document Type: Article

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