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Characterizing and Mapping of Ecosystem Services (CMESs) Literature Database Version 1.0
Citation:
ALLEN, P., M. S. NASH, R. C. Ohman, R. D. LOPEZ, J. CHRISTENSEN, A. M. PITCHFORD, N. G. TALLENT-HALSELL, AND L. C. BUTLER. Characterizing and Mapping of Ecosystem Services (CMESs) Literature Database Version 1.0. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/C-11/003, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
The database base was originally developed in Microsoft® Excel 97-2003 Worksheet and imported to Microsoft Access 2003. The Microsoft Access Tables, Queries, Forms, Report, Macros and Modules were created in Microsoft Access 2003. It was migrated to Microsoft Office Access 2007 SP2 MSO. It uses the Microsoft Office Access Database (.mdb) that has not been converted to the new Access file format (.accdb). Accessing the database can be done from the CD itself or from your PC (after saving it on your personal computer). To make database changes, you will have to copy the database to your PC.
Description:
Ecosystem services (ESs) represent an ecosystem’s capacity for satisfying essential human needs, directly or indirectly, above that required to maintain ecosystem integrity (structure, function and processes). The spatial characterization and mapping of ESs is an essential first step in establishing existing conditions to characterize, assess, value and communicate the impact of decisions that affect ESs and the benefits that flow to society. The US Environmental Protection Agency, as part of the Ecosystem Services Research Program, has a goal of developing a National Atlas of Ecosystem Services, thus we conducted an intensive literature survey related to characterizing and mapping ecosystem functions, processes, and services. We reviewed over 250 journal articles dating from 1990 to 2009. The number of articles on ecosystem services and related functions and processes has increased exponentially since 1990. Information on ecosystem services were summarized from the literature and assigned to general ESs classes as shown in Table 1. This literature database hereafter will be referred as the characterization and mapping of ecosystem services (CMESs) database. The CMESs Database was developed to aid the Landscape Ecology Branch in sorting through the ever increasing amount of data specific to mapping ecosystem services and is available to the public.
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Characterizing and Mapping of EcosystemServices (CMESs) Literature Database Version 1.0NASH 11-021 FINAL DATA -V1.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 790 KB, about PDF)