Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(3)
It will be interesting to see what other ecosystem trends the company shares via Plume IQ it's worth putting on your monthly reading short list.
Today, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) asked the Obama Administration to make it happen by creating a quadrennial survey of ecosystem trends and making relevant federal data more accessible.
Assessing ecosystem trends and patterns at regional scales is necessary if informed management choices are to be made that will mitigate the effects of large-scale climate disturbance.
Similar(57)
There are two main outcomes of this study: (1) first, we developed and tested a catalogue of indicators as an approach to evaluate cultural ecosystem services trends at the local scale and (2) we established a mapping method for cultural ecosystem services trends in parallel with land use changes.
High levels of participation were correlated with improvements in wellbeing and ecosystem health trends.
Our main conclusion is that cultural ecosystem services trends can indicate the reasons and drivers for land use changes that can be beneficial to forest/landscape management issues by means of the restoration of lost services.
We contrasted those results with social perceptions of ecosystem services trends using two techniques (expert judgment by a multidisciplinary scientific panel and semi-structured interviews of locals and visitors).
Referring to land use changes as an important driver for ES changes, we demonstrate the analysis of cultural ecosystem services trends, in a retrospective, as a supporting tool to better understand social and natural interactions as drivers behind land use changes, which are reflected in the landscape scene.
To reverse ecosystem degradation trends, conservation-livelihood enhancement tools like PES have been initiated as an alternative for watershed conservation through incentive mechanisms to farmers (Nyongesa 2011).
PES incentives have been applied to motivate farmers to participate in implementation of PES scheme activities to reverse ecosystem degradation trends through upstream-downstream linkages to address environmental externalities upstream that affects downstream opportunities (Nepal et al. 2014).
Given the nature of the method used, in which ecosystem services trends were assessed and linked to human well-being, there was a broad space for the inclusion of multiple values (though note that monetary valuation of ecosystem services was not performed).
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com