Landscape Management Impact on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 10326
Special Issue Editor
Interests: landscape ecology; ecosystem services; environmental management; ecological indicators
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Dear Colleagues,
The need to develop scientific landscape management strategies to achieve the goal of sustainable development is widely known. However, the spatial identification of functional zones remains to be studied, where testing the suitability of alternative landscape management schemes in preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services.
In the context of climate change, there is widespread knowledge that biodiversity conservation and, when necessary, restoration are both required to maintain the supply of ecosystem services; however, there is little knowledge regarding the way management alternatives can affect the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services. The conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is of great significance from the perspective of sustainability, given that the effects of climate change on ecosystems can result in changes to landscape productivity, a vulnerability to biological invasions, as well as benefits for human well-being provided by natural ecosystems.
The scope of this Special Issue is to collect assessment methods, landscape metrics, and suitable indicators than can help to differentiate between different management strategies in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem services’ conservation enhancement.
Dr. Irene Petrosillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity conservation
- landscape management
- human well-being
- indicators/metrics
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