In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well …-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological … Diversity; therefore I evaluate their current use and performance in Hungary as a model country. Especially indices of the …

happening in almost 70 countries (on approximately 40% of the world forested area). This study focuses on countries where forest … cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … positive impact on biodiversity) and monocultures (that are debatable with that respect). OLS regression is used to reveal …

hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision in the context of an existing policy mix. In the context of the EU 2010 … goal of halting biodiversity loss, researchers have been called upon to evaluate the role of economic instruments for cost …

deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world’s atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the …

values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and … sequestration may have negative impacts on biodiversity-scenic values. To evaluate the practical relevance, we compare …

contribution of biodiversity to the sustainable development has recently been acknowledged. The need for this recognition arose … from the fact that biodiversity provides a variety of socio- cultural and economic services for the humankind such as food …, water, shelter, medicines, energy and aesthetic value. Despite realization of biodiversity as essential factor for human …

attributes associated with non-use values (native tree species and biodiversity conservation) than for attributes associated with …

Dead wood is recognized as being one of the most important factors for forest biodiversity for many organism groups … results of stump harvest on forest biodiversity. The parameters of the model are estimated with a data set spanning 28 years … scenarios have different effects on all major roundwood markets in the region, as well as on biodiversity. More specifically, in …