Abstract
Russian landscapes provide important ecosystem services (ES) of local, regional and global scale and are crucially important for the economy and people of the country. The Project TEEB-Russia is the first attempt at a nation-wide ES assessment in Russia. The result of the first phase of the project (2013–2015) was the “Prototype National Report on Ecosystem Services of Russia, Volume 1, Terrestrial Ecosystems Services.” A methodology for ES assessment was developed with allowance for the current status of the national public statistics. ES volumes supplied by ecosystems and consumed by humans were assessed. The degree of ES use was assessed by the ratio of supplied ES to consumed ES. These methodological approaches allowed to compare the regions of Russia and define regions, which are ES donors and ES consumers. However, further progress in defining the principles of ES management requires moving from the interregional to landscape scale. In particular, the optimization of the tasks of biodiversity conservation and ES use can be effectively solved at the landscape level.
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The cadastre is the report of Russia on greenhouse gas emission/absorption and the GHG balance in managed forests. Carbon stocks in forests are intermediate estimates of the cadaster (National report 2013).
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The TEEB-Russia project was commissioned by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) with funds from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and was supported by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
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Bukvareva, E., Zamolodchikov, D., Grunewald, K. (2019). Ecosystem Services of Russian Landscapes. In: Mueller, L., Eulenstein, F. (eds) Current Trends in Landscape Research. Innovations in Landscape Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30069-2_10
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