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RESILIENCE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES – APPLYING ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION AND INTEGRITY CONCEPTS TO NATURAL SWEET CHESTNUT FORESTS IN BELASITZA MOUNTAIN (SW BULGARIA)
Article number
1043_24
Pages
183 – 190
Language
English
Abstract
In the sustainable development concept the successful societal responses to conserve biodiversity are the key for maintaining ecosystem processes and structures, which is the basis for providing ecosystem services.
Ecosystem services and resilience concepts have been seen as promising ways to analyse complex and coupled human-environment interactions, but there are some problems regarding both concepts.
Ecosystem services encompass benefits of nature to human community, and emphasise that ecosystem structures and processes provide variety of services used by people to maintain the human well-being.
Resilience concept has been used to assess sustainability of coupled socio-ecological systems, taking into account feedbacks between social and ecological realms, implying that system is resilient if it can maintain its structures and functions despite disturbances.
The concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) deals with the benefits and goods which are provided by specific ecosystem structures and functions for anthropogenic utilisation.
Therefore the concept is suitable for identifying consequences of changes in ecosystems.
The results from these concept analyse for chestnut forests in Belasitza Mts are discussed.
Ecosystem services and resilience concepts have been seen as promising ways to analyse complex and coupled human-environment interactions, but there are some problems regarding both concepts.
Ecosystem services encompass benefits of nature to human community, and emphasise that ecosystem structures and processes provide variety of services used by people to maintain the human well-being.
Resilience concept has been used to assess sustainability of coupled socio-ecological systems, taking into account feedbacks between social and ecological realms, implying that system is resilient if it can maintain its structures and functions despite disturbances.
The concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) deals with the benefits and goods which are provided by specific ecosystem structures and functions for anthropogenic utilisation.
Therefore the concept is suitable for identifying consequences of changes in ecosystems.
The results from these concept analyse for chestnut forests in Belasitza Mts are discussed.
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Authors
S. Bratanova-Doncheva, R. Fikova, K. Katrandziev, N. Chipev, V. Dimitrova
Keywords
ecosystem integrity, ecosystem resilience, chestnut forest, ecosystem services
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