ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AS A FIRST STEP IN THE EVALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES PROVIDED BY LOTIC ECOSYSTEMS

• Authors: Adina Nicoleta Farcaş , Angela Curtean-Bănăduc , Claudiu Vasile Kifor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The ecosystems offer to the socio-economic system a series of goods and services derived from their processes and biodiversity. Ecosystem services offered by a river are at their highest potential when the river status is close to the natural one. Once the river is affected by human impact due to resources exploitation, hydro technical works, water abstraction or improper land use, the ecological status declines and the ecosystem services become scarce. This is why an ecological assessment is necessary in order to establish the connection between the ecosystem services and the human impact. In this paper, the ecological assessment of Timiș River was done, allowing the classification of the river in four sectors with different ecological statuses, associated with the various human impacts that differently affect the quality of the water, the riverbed and the flooding area.

Keywords

EN

Ecosystem services; human impact; ecological assessment; Timiş River

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management of Sustainable Development
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-12

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-01-22

Contributors

author

Adina Nicoleta Farcaş

• Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

author

Angela Curtean-Bănăduc

• "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

author

Claudiu Vasile Kifor

• "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/msd-2013-0009