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Measuring Natural Capital Value and Ecological Complexity of Lake Ecosystems by U. Grande; A. Piernik; A. Nienartowicz; E. Buonocore; P.P. Franzese is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Measuring Natural Capital Value and Ecological Complexity of Lake Ecosystems about?
Healthy ecosystems are capable of maintaining their structures and functions, ensuring the generation and maintenance of natural capital stocks delivering ecosystem services flows vital for human well-being. The development of ecosystems can be investigated by using different ecological goal functions. Among them, emergy and eco-exergy can be used to unfold the role of matter and energy flow exchanges in the functioning of ecological systems. In this paper, the emergy and eco-exergy accounting methods were integrated to investigate three forest lake ecosystems characterized by a different trophism (oligotrophic, mesotrophic, and eutrophic) and located in the Tuchola Forest UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve (Northern Poland). In particular, emergy was used to account for the work of nature invested to generate natural capital stocks, while eco-exergy was used to characterize the development stage of lake ecosystems reflecting their trophic and health state. The eutrophic lake showed the highest emergy investment (4.36∙1012 sej m−2) for the generation of natural capital stocks, mainly due to the high convergence of nutrient flows. The eutrophic lake also showed the highest value of eco-ex
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- Author
- U. Grande; A. Piernik; A. Nienartowicz; E. Buonocore; P.P. Franzese
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)