Patterns and Processes of Forest Ecosystem Services
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2020) | Viewed by 3589
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest ecosystems; ecosystems services; spatial patterns; ecological process; multi-scale
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: landscape ecological planning; spatial analysis; social-ecological systems; ecosystem services
Interests: forest ecosystems; ecosystem services; global change; disturbances; landscape and regional ecological planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The general aim of this Special Issue is to address the role played by patterns and processes of forest ecosystems in the provision of goods and services.
How multiple ecosystem services and related values are acknowledged, appropriated, or delivered to society is strongly related to their spatial patterns of distribution and the ecological processes that generated them.
This Issue aims to explore the effects on ecosystem services of multi-scale features such as heterogeneity, diversity and connectivity of forests, or the spatial relationships between forest ecosystems and other land uses, but also processes ranging from specific interexchanges of matter, energy, and information to more generic relationships between forests and society at the social-ecological level.
Prof. Dr. Pedro Álvarez-Álvarez
Prof. Dr. Emilio Díaz-Varela
Dr. José V. Roces-Díaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forests ecosystems
- ecosystem services
- spatial patterns
- ecological processes
- multi-scale
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