Mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and decision making is dependent on the
availability of spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their …

Five anthropogenic drivers–land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric
change, climate change–will largely determine the future of tropical forests. The geographic …

The biodiversity hotspots are 35 biogeographical regions that have both exceptional
endemism and extreme threats to their vegetation integrity, and as such are global …

Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) are globally extensive but understudied, especially
from a biogeochemical perspective. Historically, much of the land covered by SDTF has …

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as
tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered …

Central and South America tropical dry forest (TDF) is a water-limited biome with a high
number of endemic species and numerous ecosystem services which has experienced a …

Abstract Background South America is one of the most species diverse continents in the
world. Within South America diversity is not distributed evenly at both local and continental …

Systematic evaluation of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of Payments for
Ecosystem Services (PES) programs is crucial for guiding policy design and implementation …

The inter-regional payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an important policy to promote
regional ecological and environmental cooperation. However, the existing inter-regional …

Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) are considered one of the most endangered tropical
ecosystems (Janzen 1988c). High degrees of degradation are reported, not only for the …