The present paper focuses on the issues related to the economic value of landscape and the role of indicators and indices systems.
Despite the crucial role of indicators in helping to safeguard and manage environmental values, indicator-based ecosystem assessments entail challenges.
Emblematic adhesive bandages play a dual role, as indicators of difference in "Flesh" and "Skin," and as potential unifiers in "Healing," with its implication that everyone's blood is essentially the same.
With the aid of some examples the role of indicators is showed.
The residential vegetation features in urban landscapes play an important role as indicators regarding urban biodiversity potential and cultural changing.
Hoverflies are a valuable group of species in need of conservation and monitoring, due to their large contribution to pollination, biological control, and role as indicators of ecosystem change.
58 (1999) 405.], which is designed to explain changes in investment in South Africa during the Apartheid period, by allowing a role for indicators of political instability and political and civil rights, as measured by Fedderke et al. [Fedderke, J., de Kadt, R., Luiz, J., 1999.
Microbial mats play an important role as indicators of subsurface microbial heterogeneity and activity, a role proposed previously for seafloor fauna [78].
Genetic and environmental factors play a role as indicators of disease outcome in AMD, including smoking and arthritis [ 4, 27].
IL-10 and IL-17 were also measured to test their possible role as indicators of disease activity.
