A5075577830- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Water resources management and optimization
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Plant and animal studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine and fisheries research
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
United States Geological Survey
2016-2025
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
2015-2025
World Bank
2016-2019
University of Idaho
2015
National Park Service
2015
Washington State University
2015
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement
2015
University of Vermont
2006-2012
Mercy Willard Hospital
2005-2006
Ecosystem Services (ES) are an established conceptual framework for attributing value to the benefits that nature provides humans. As promise of robust ES-driven management is put test, shortcomings in our ability accurately measure, map, and ES have surfaced. On research side, mainstream methods assessment still fall short addressing complex, multi-scale biophysical socioeconomic dynamics inherent provision, flow, use. practitioner application remains onerous due data model parameterization...
Bagstad, K. J., F. Villa, D. Batker, J. Harrison-Cox, B. Voigt, and G. W. Johnson. 2014. From theoretical to actual ecosystem services: mapping beneficiaries spatial flows in service assessments. Ecology Society 19(2): 64. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06523-190264
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Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity flows ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand incorporate these into national international assessments leads incomplete potentially skewed conclusions, impairing society’s ability identify sustainable management policy choices. In this paper, we synthesise existing knowledge develop a conceptual framework for analysing interregional service flows. We types such flows,...
Scientists, stakeholders and decision makers face trade-offs between adopting simple or complex approaches when modeling ecosystem services (ES). Complex may be time- data-intensive, making them more challenging to implement difficult scale, but can produce accurate locally specific results. In contrast, allow for faster assessments sacrifice accuracy credibility. The ARtificial Intelligence Ecosystem Services (ARIES) platform has endeavored provide a spectrum of ES models that are readily...
Recent developments in machine learning have expanded data-driven modelling (DDM) capabilities, allowing artificial intelligence to infer the behaviour of a system by computing and exploiting correlations between observed variables within it. Machine algorithms may enable use increasingly available ‘big data’ assist applying ecosystem service models across scales, analysing predicting flows these services disaggregated beneficiaries. We Weka ARIES software produce two examples DDM: firewood...
Ecosystems provide life-sustaining services upon which human civilization depends, but their degradation largely continues unabated. Spatially explicit information on ecosystem (ES) provision is required to better guide decision making, particularly for mountain systems, are characterized by vertical gradients and isolation with high topographic complexity, making them sensitive global change. But while spatially ES quantification valuation allows the identification of areas abundant or...
In natural capital accounting, ecosystems are assets that provide ecosystem services to people. Assets can be measured using both physical and monetary units. the international System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, generally valued on basis net present value expected flow services. this paper we argue several additional conceptualisations needed understand as assets, in support assessments, accounting management. particular, define ecosystems' capacity capability supply services, well...
Large river-floodplain systems are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services but also used for multiple human activities, making them one the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. There is wide evidence that reconnecting river channels with their floodplains an effective measure to increase multi-functionality, i.e., ecological integrity, habitats species functions systems, although, selection promising sites restoration projects can be a demanding task. In case Danube River in Europe,...
Despite a growing number of national-scale ecosystem service (ES) assessments, few studies consider the impacts ES use and consumption beyond national or regional boundaries. Interregional flows – services "imported" from "exported" to other countries are rarely analyzed their importance for global sustainability is little known. Here, we provide first multi-ES quantification nation's abroad. We focus on that benefit population in Germany but supplied outside German territory. employ...
Abstract Microsoft released a U.S.-wide vector building dataset in 2018. Although the layers provide relatively accurate geometries, their use large-extent geospatial analysis comes at high computational cost. We used High-Performance Computing (HPC) to develop an algorithm that calculates six summary values for each cell raster representation of U.S. state, excluding Alaska and Hawaii: (1) total footprint coverage, (2) number unique buildings intersecting cell, (3) centroids falling inside...
The United States and European Union (EU) face common challenges in managing natural capital balancing conservation resource use with consumption of other forms capital. This paper synthesizes findings from 11 individual application papers a special issue Ecosystem Services on accounting (NCA) their to the public private sectors EU U.S. NCA is inherently data-integration centered exercise, aiming draw new insights by realigning environmental economic data into consistent framework. Drawing...
Urban land cover types influence the urban microclimates. However, recent work indicates magnitude of cover's microclimate is affected by aridity. Moreover, this variation in cooling and warming potentials can substantially alter exposure areas to extreme heat. Our goal understand both relative influences on local air temperature, as well how these vary during periods To do so we apply predictive machine learning models an extensive in-situ 1 m dataset across eight U.S. cities spanning a...
Nature loss threatens businesses, the global economy and financial stability. Understanding addressing these risks for business will require credible measurement approaches data. This paper explores how natural capital accounting (NCA) can support data information needs related to nature, including disclosures aligned with Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recommendations. As businesses seek measure, manage disclose their nature-related opportunities, they need...