@article{Drius_Sams_Knopper_Hainz-Renetzeder_Brandenburg_Wrbka_2020, title={Assessing landscape services as foundation for Green Infrastructure functionality: the case of the Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve.}, url={https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/LO.202084}, DOI={10.3097/LO.202084}, abstractNote={<p>Biosphere Reserves are considered as means for the people who live and work within them to attain a balanced relationship with the natural and semi-natural environment. Moreover, they contribute to the needs of society by showing a way to a more sustainable future. The Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve partly surrounds the city of Vienna and other minor settlements, representing a well-developed example of Green Infrastructure (GI) of great cultural and natural value. Its heterogeneous landscape offers a variety of landscape services (LS).</p> <p>In this work we quantified and mapped the capacity of LS offered by the open land elements of Wienerwald. Starting from a high-resolution dataset, we selected suitable indicator classes, and scored each ecological and socio-cultural service through an expert-based capacity matrix. The subsequent GIS analyses focused on the intensity and density of LS capacities by developing an index useful for mapping GI functionality.</p> <p>The work provides an effective monitoring tool for the Reserve’s both ecological and socio-cultural sustainability performance. It also allows detecting resilient areas, by considering both the spatial distribution and the abundance of landscape elements.</p>}, journal={Landscape Online}, author={Drius, Mita and Sams, Katharina Theresa and Knopper, Friedrich and Hainz-Renetzeder, Christa and Brandenburg, Christiane and Wrbka, Thomas}, year={2020}, month={Oct.}, pages={84} }