The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making

The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making

To maximize specific ecosystem services (ES) such as food production, people alter landscape structure, i.e., the types of ecosystems present, their relative proportions, and their spatial arrangement across landscapes. This can have significant, and sometimes unexpected, effects on biodiversity and...

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Main Authors: Matthew G. E. Mitchell, Elena M. Bennett, Andrew Gonzalez, Martin J. Lechowicz, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Jeffrey A. Cardille, Kees Vanderheyden, Geneviève Poirier-Ghys, Delphine Renard, Sylvestre Delmotte, Cécile H. Albert, Bronwyn Rayfield, Maria Dumitru, Hsin-Hui Huang, Martine Larouche, Kate N. Liss, Dorothy Y. Maguire, Kyle T. Martins, Marta Terrado, Carly Ziter, Lucie Taliana, Karine Dancose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2015-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
biodiversity
ecosystem services
landscape connectivity
landscape structure
Montérégie
Qu&#233
bec
periurban
scenarios
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss4/art15/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss4/art15/

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