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Ecosystem Services and Ecological Reserves

Ecological Reserves in British Columbia play an important role in the provision of Ecosystem Services. The references below relate to this topic: BACKGROUND REFERENCE: Ecosystem services ‘Ecosystem goods’, such as food, and ‘services’, such as waste assimilation, represent the benefits humans obtain from a properly functioning ecosystem and are usually referred together as ‘ecosystem services’.

Litter decomposition in B.C. forests: controlling factors and influences of forestry activities

15JuneGarry Fletcher7, 92, Ecological Monitoring, Researchdecomposition, ecosystem services, forestry

We recently received the following email from Dr. Cindy Prescott , Professor of Forest Ecology and Ecological Restoration at UBC: ” I attach the paper that presents the results of this experiment comparing rates of decomposition of litter in BEC zones. I used Ecological Reserves – Trout Creek and Skihist – for the Ponderosa Pine