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Soy-Massoni, E., J. Langemeyer, D. Varga, M. Sáez, J. Pintó. The importance of ecosystem services in coastal agricultural landscapes: Case study from the Costa Brava, Catalonia. Ecosystem Services . doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.11.004
Agricultural landscapes are increasingly valued by society for their potential to provide multiple benefits and values, such as landscape beauty or habitat for biodiversity. Yet, Mediterranean agricultural landscapes are still following a pattern of changes under the narrow focus of increased agricultural productivity, while other benefits and values are depleted. In this study, we assess the importance and multiple benefit...
Schlüter, M., S. Levin, A. Tavoni. The robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2431
Sustainable use of common-pool resources such as fish, water or forests depends on the cooperation of resource users that restrain their individual extraction to socially optimal levels. Empirical evidence has shown that under certain social and biophysical conditions, self-organized cooperation in the commons can evolve. Global change, however, may drastically alter these conditions. We assess the robustness of cooperation...
Quinlan, A.E., M. Berbés-Blázquez, L.J. Haider, G.D. Peterson. 2015. Measuring and assessing resilience: Broadening understanding through multiple disciplinary perspectives. Journal of Applied Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12550
Increased interest in managing resilience has led to efforts to develop standardized tools for assessments and quantitative measures. Resilience, however, as a property of complex adaptive systems, does not lend itself easily to measurement. Whereas assessment approaches tend to focus on deepening understanding of system dynamics, resilience measurement aims to capture and quantify resilience in a rigorous and repeatable way. ...
Polhill, J.G., T. Filatova, M. Schlüter, A. Voinov. Modelling systemic change in coupled socio-environmental systems. Environmental Modelling and Software doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.017
Abrupt systemic changes in ecological and socio-economic systems are a regular occurrence. While there has been much attention to studying systemic changes primarily in ecology as well as in economics, the attempts to do so for coupled socio-environmental systems are rarer. This paper bridges the gap by reviewing how models can be instrumental in exploring significant, fundamental changes in such systems. The history of mod...
Pedersen, M.W., A. Kokkalis, H. Bardarson, S. Bonanomi, W.J. Boonstra, W.E. Butler, F.K. Diekert, N. Fouzai, M. Holma, R.E. Holt, K.Ø. Kvile, E. Nieminen, K.M. Ottosen, A. Richter, L.A. Rogers, G. Romagnoni, M. Snickars, A. Törnroos, B. Weigel, J.D. Whittington, P. Woods, J. Yletyinen, A.S.A. Ferreira. Trends in marine climate change research in the Nordic region since the first IPCC report. Climatic Change doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1536-6
Oceans are exposed to anthropogenic climate change shifting marine systems toward potential instabilities. The physical, biological and social implications of such shifts can be assessed within individual scientific disciplines, but can only be fully understood by combining knowledge and expertise across disciplines. For climate change related problems these research directions have been well-established since the publication ...
Oyanedel, R., A. Marín, J.C. Castilla, S. Gelcich. 2015. Establishing marine protected areas through bottom-up processes: Insights from two contrasting initiatives in Chile. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2546
Bottom-up participatory processes to create and manage no-take marine protected areas have been proposed as a way to scale-up marine conservation and deal with the lack of support and compliance of top-down conservation approaches. However, bottom-up conservation does not always lead to positive outcomes, thus it is increasingly important to understand the conditions that determine the establishment and implementation of these...
Ouedraogo, I., J. Barron, S.D. Tumbo, F.C. Kahimba. Land cover transition in northern Tanzania. Land Degradation and Development DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2461
Land conversion in sub-Saharan Africa has profound biophysical, ecological, political and social consequences for human well-being and ecosystem services. Understanding the process of land cover changes and transitions is essential for good ecosystem management policy that would lead to improved agricultural production, human well-being and ecosystems health. This study aimed to assess land cover transitions in a typical se...
Kadin, M., O. Olsson, J. Hentati-Sundberg, E. Willerström Ehrning, T. Blenckner. Common Guillemot Uria aalge parents adjust provisioning rates to compensate for low food quality. Ibis DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12335
The quantity and quality of food available within the foraging area set important constraints for chick-rearing birds, but responses to low quality are not well understood. This study explored the potential for parent birds to adjust quantity (feeding rate) and quality (energy content) in chick provisioning, by studying Common Guillemots Uria aalge on Stora Karlsö, Baltic Sea, predominantly utilizing Sprat Sprattus spra...
Griffiths, J.R., S. Hajdu, A.S. Downing, O. Hjerne, U. Larsson, M. Winder. Phytoplankton community interactions and environmental sensitivity in coastal and offshore habitats. Oikos DOI: 10.1111/oik.02405
Assessing the relative importance of environmental conditions and community interactions is necessary for evaluating the sensitivity of biological communities to anthropogenic change. Phytoplankton communities have a central role in aquatic food webs and biogeochemical cycles, therefore, consequences of differing community sensitivities may have broad ecosystem effects. Using two long-term time series (28 and 20 years) from...
Eriksson, H., D.S. Adhuri, L. Adrianto, N.L. Andrew, T. Apriliani, T. Daw, L. Evans, L. Garces, E. Kamanyi, R. Mwaipopo, A.H. Purnomo, R.J. Sulu, D.J. Beare. An ecosystem approach to small-scale fisheries through participatory diagnosis in four tropical countries. Global Environmental Change doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.11.005
Participatory diagnosis is an approach to identify, prioritize and mobilise around factors that constrain or enable effective governance and management in small-scale fisheries. Diagnostic frameworks are mostly designed and used for systematic scientific analysis or impact evaluation. Through participation they also have potential to guide contextually informed improvements to management in practice, including transitions to c...
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