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Concepts and a methodology for evaluating environmental services from trees of small farms in Chiapas, México

We propose a methodology to estimate the environmental service (ES) value of small farms in Chiapas, Mexico, involving trained farmers-promoters in field sampling. We considered the ways in which the landscape's principal organisms, the trees, contribute to ES. We proposed a species functional value...

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Published in:Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 114; pp. 115 - 125
Main Authors: Marinidou, Eleni, Finegan, Bryan, Jiménez-Ferrer, Guillermo, Delgado, Diego, Casanoves, Fernando
Format: Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. Jan2013
Subjects:
Chiapas (Mexico)
Mexico
Small farms
Biodiversity conservation
Land use
Trees & the environment
Riparian forests
Carbon sequestration
Forest canopies
Sampling (Process)
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