Patricia Balvanera
A5023059860- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2015-2024
Universidad de Morelia
2012-2023
Birds Canada
2021
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
2015-2017
Centro de Investigaciones de Ecosistemas Costeros
2014
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2014
Stanford University
2001-2013
Columbia University
2012-2013
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
1986-2011
Instituto de Ecología
2002-2009
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different often conflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for inclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) decision making, as well broad methodological steps doing so. While developed within context Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach more widely applicable initiatives at knowledge–policy interface, which require a pluralistic recognizing diversity values. We argue that...
A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or nature’s (intrinsic (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views personal and collective well-being, “what right,” regard environment. Without complementary attention other ways value expressed realized by people, such a focus inadvertently promote worldviews at odds fair desirable futures. It time engage seriously third...
A focus on ecosystem services (ES) is seen as a means for improving decisionmaking. In the research to date, valuation of material contributions ecosystems human well-being has been emphasized, with less attention important cultural ES and nonmaterial values. This gap persists because there no commonly accepted framework eliciting tangible values, characterizing their changes, including them alongside other in Here, we develop such practice, addressing three challenges: (1) Nonmaterial...
Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.
Ecosystems provide many of the material building blocks for human well-being. Although quantification and appreciation such contributions have rapidly grown, our dependence upon cultural connections to nature deserves more attention. We synthesize multidisciplinary peer-reviewed research on or ecosystems well-being mediated through nontangible (such as culture). characterize these basis channels which arise (i.e., knowing, perceiving, interacting with, living within) components they affect...
Abstract Aim Tropical forests store 25% of global carbon and harbour 96% the world's tree species, but it is not clear whether this high biodiversity matters for storage. Few studies have teased apart relative importance forest attributes environmental drivers ecosystem functioning, no such study exists tropics. Location Neotropics. Methods We relate aboveground biomass ( AGB ) to (diversity structure) (annual rainfall soil fertility) using data from 144,000 trees, 2050 plots 59 sites. The...
Tropical secondary forests recover quickly (decades) in tree species richness but slowly (centuries) composition.
Significance People are fascinated by the amazing diversity of tropical forests and will be surprised to learn that robust estimates number tree species lacking. We show there at least 40,000, but possibly more than 53,000, in tropics, contrast only 124 across temperate Europe. Almost all restricted their respective continents, Indo-Pacific region appears as species-rich America, with each these two regions being almost five times rich African forests. Our study shows most extremely rare,...
Understanding when biodiversity conservation and ecosystem-service maintenance are compatible is needed within the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Here, we evaluate current understanding uncertainties of effects change selected ecosystem services suggest ways to further understand links between services. We reviewed experiments, observations, syntheses species richness six services: forage, timber, fisheries, climate regulation, agricultural pest...
Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during secondary succession and their recovery is interrelated using 77 sites across tropics. are highly resilient low-intensity land use; after 20 years, attain 78% (33 100%) old-growth values. Recovery 90% values fastest for soil (<1 decade) plant functioning (<2.5 decades), intermediate structure species diversity (2.5...
Abstract Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose of nature are acted on. A better understanding how why is (under)valued more urgent than ever 4 . Notwithstanding...
Numerous assessments have quantified, mapped, and valued the services provided by ecosystems that are important for human wellbeing. However, much of literature does not clarify how information gathered in such could be used to inform decisions will impact ecosystem services. We propose process making management comprises five core steps: identification problem its social–ecological context; specification objectives associated performance measures; defining alternative actions evaluating...