Browsing Scientific publications by Author "Rusch, Graciela"
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Assessing ecosystem services from multifunctional trees in pastures using Bayesian belief networks
Barton, David Nicholas; Benjamin, Tamara; Cerdán, Carlos R.; DeClerck, Fabrice; Madsen, Anders L.; Rusch, Graciela; Salazar, Álvaro; Sánchez, Dalia; Villanueva, Cristóbal (Journal article, 2016) -
Bending the curve: Operationalizing national Red Lists to customize conservation actions to reduce extinction risk
Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen; Pedersen, Bård; Evju, Marianne; Magnussen, Kristin; Mair, Louise; Bolam, Friederike C.; McGowan, Philip J.K.; Vestergaard, Kjetil Mastad; Braa, Jørund; Rusch, Graciela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Human activity is accelerating biodiversity loss despite international commitments to prevent extinction and habitat degradation. To bend the curve, international goals must be translated into national targets and actions. ... -
Bigger, more diverse and better? Mapping structural diversity and its recreational value in urban green spaces
Soy Massoni, Emma; Barton, David Nicholas; Rusch, Graciela; Gundersen, Vegard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-07)Are bigger green spaces more diverse in terms of their natural and manmade elements? Does higher diversity mean they are more attractive to users and encourage more diversity of activities, and thereby provide a wider range ... -
Community aggregated traits disclose functional responses to seasonal resource fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity
Ospina, Sonia; Rusch, Graciela; Easdale, Tomas A.; Finegan, Bryan; Casanoves, Fernando; Ibraham, Muhammad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016) -
Composición florística de pastizales en Muy Muy y Rivas, Nicaragua
Morales, Julio; Rusch, Graciela; Casanoves, Fernando; Söderström, Lars; Rocha, Lester (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)A pesar de ser ecosistemas manejados, surgidos de la transformación de ambientes naturales, los pastizales compuestos por especies nativas y exóticas pueden tener un papel importante en la conservación de la biodiversidad ... -
Constraining forest certificate's market to improve cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in São Paulo state, Brazil
Bernasconi, Paula; Blumentrath, Stefan; Barton, David Nicholas; Rusch, Graciela; Romeiro, Ademar R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The recently launched Brazilian ªforest certificatesº market is expected to reduce environmental compliance costs for landowners through an offset mechanism, after a long history of conservation laws based in command-and-control ... -
¿Cómo incrementar la multifuncionalidad en potreros?
Sánchez, Dalia; Rusch, Graciela; Villanueva, Cristóbal; Barton, David Nicholas; Salazar, Álvaro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)En las zonas ganaderas de Nicaragua hay un interés creciente de los productores por retener y manejar árboles en potreros (árboles dispersos y cercas vivas). Es recomendable que el productor considere la importancia de la ... -
Determinants of grassland primary productionin seasonally-dry silvopastoral systems in Central America
Rusch, Graciela; Zapata, P.C.; Casanoves, Fernando; Casals, Pere; Ibrahim, M.; DeClerck, Fabrice (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Grassland primary productivity is the function that underpins the majority of the fodder production in cattle-rearing silvopastoral farms. Hence, understanding the factors that determine grassland productivity is ... -
Ecosystem Services and Opportunity Costs Shift SpatialPriorities for Conserving Forest Biodiversity
Schröter, Matthias; Rusch, Graciela; Barton, David Nicholas; Blumentrath, Stefan; Nordén, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Inclusion of spatially explicit information on ecosystem services in conservation planning is a fairly new practice. This study analyses how the incorporation of ecosystem services as conservation features can affect ... -
Ecosystem services mapping for municipal policy: ESTIMAP and zoning for urban beekeeping
Stange, Erik; Zulian, Grazia; Rusch, Graciela; Barton, David Nicholas; Nowell, Megan Sara (Journal article, 2017)Pollinating insects are an integral part of cities’ natural capital and perform an important ecosystem function with a high degree of relevance to many cultural ecosystem services. Consequently, pollinators serve as a ... -
Ecosystem services to support environmental and socially sustainable decision-making
Rusch, Veronica E.; Rusch, Graciela; Goijman, Andrea P.; Claps, Leonardo; Varela, Santiago A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The theory of ecosystem services (ES) needs to be operationalized to contribute to practices leading to sustainable use of ecosystems, which includes solving trade-offs between private and public benefits and incorporating ... -
El efecto de la proximidad del bosque sobre el control biológico de pastos en el Noroeste de Mato Grosso, Brasil: un análisis coste-beneficio para políticas de uso del suelo
Del Arco, P.; May, P.; Rusch, Graciela (Journal article, 2018)Este estudio pretende generar información para dueños de tierras, productores rurales, técnicos de extensión rural y formuladores de políticas públicas, que permita integrar el valor generado por el bosque en la toma de ... -
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda
Turnhout, Esther; McElwee, Pamela; Chiroleu‐Assouline, Mireille; Clapp, Jennifer; Isenhour, Cindy; Kelemen, Eszter; Jackson, Tim; Miller, Daniel C.; Rusch, Graciela; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Waldron, Anthony (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on the global economy, and current delays in the negotiation of the post-2020 global biodiversity agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity heighten the urgency to build back better ... -
Ensuring a post-covid economic agenda tackles global biodiversity loss
McElwee, Pamela; Turnout, Esther; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Clapp, Jennifer; Isenhour, Cindy; Jackson, Tim; Kelemen, Eszter; Miller, Daniel C.; Rusch, Graciela; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Waldron, Anthony; Baumgartner, Rupert J.; Bleys, Brent; Howard, Michael W.; Mungatana, Eric; Ngo, Hien; Ring, Irene; Santos, Rui (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy ... -
Estrategias de los árboles para el uso eficiente del agua y tolerancia a la sequía en sistemas silvopastoriles
Bucheli, Pilar; Benjamin, Tamara; Rusch, Graciela; Ibrahim, Muhammad; Casals, Pere; Sánchez, Dalia; Pugnaire, Francisco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)La adquisición de recursos del suelo por las plantas depende de la especie, las características del suelo y de otros factores del medio ambiente local. El fin de este estudio fue conocer la distribución y los tipos de ... -
Functional groups of Sahelian trees in a semiarid agroforestry system of Senegal
Diémé, Joseph S.; Diouf, Mayécor; Armas, Cristina; Rusch, Graciela; Pugnaire, Francisco I. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Aims Addressing plant responses to water stress is critical to understand the structure of plant communities in water-limited environments and to forecast their resilience to future changes in climate. In a semiarid ... -
Functional responses of four Sahelian tree species to resource availability
Diéme, Joseph S.; Armas, Cristina; Rusch, Graciela; Pugnaire, Francisco (Journal article, 2018-11-11)Plants experience a fluctuating environment in time and space that affects resource supply. As human impacts on the environment directly and indirectly alter resource availability, it is important to address plant responses ... -
Higher leaf nitrogen content is linked to tighter stomatalregulation of transpiration and more efficient water use acrossdryland trees
Querejeta, José Ignacio; Prieto, Ivan; Armas, Cristina; Casanoves, Fernando; Diémé, Joseph S.; Diouf, Mayécor; Yossi, Harouna; Kaya, Bocary; Pugnaire, Francisco I.; Rusch, Graciela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The least-cost economic theory of photosynthesis shows that water and nitrogen are mutu-ally substitutable resources to achieve a given carbon gain. However, vegetation in the Sahelhas to cope with the dual challenge imposed ... -
Incorporating threat in hotspots and coldspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Schröter, Matthias; Kraemer, Roland; Ceausu, Silvia; Rusch, Graciela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Spatial prioritization could help target conservation actions directed to maintain both biodiversity and ecosystem services. We delineate hotspots and coldspots of two biodiversity conservation features and five ... -
Influencia de los árboles en la vegetación herbácea de sistemas ganaderos del trópico seco de Nicaragua
Zapata, Piedad; Rusch, Graciela; Ibrahim, Muhammad; DeClerk, Fabrice; Casanoves, Fernando; Beer, John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Se estudiaron las características estructurales de tres especies forestales y su efecto sobre la productividad primaria neta aérea y la composición florística de pastizales naturales en el trópico seco de Nicaragua. Las ...