A green infrastructure is a natural and semi-natural areas designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services to people and ecosystem functions to support biodiversity

A Capacity matrix is a look-up table that provide for every combination of ecosystem type and ecosystem services a value  indicating the capacity to provide a given ecosystem service.

A disservice is a disbenefit or a nuisance produced by and ecosystem. It could be the reverse of an ecosystem services (i.e. carbon emission is a disservice, while carbon sequestration is a service). It can also be a specific nuisance (i.e. animal attacks or poisonous plants).

A pseudo-occurence is a simulated presence of a species within a landscape. Usually based on some information regarding the landscape suitability for a given species, but can also be based on random point location.

Species connectivity is the species movement among habitat patches at landscape level. It depends on species functionnal attributes and landscape structure and habitat quality.

INTEGRATIVE MANAGEMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES MULTIFUNCTIONALITY, ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM ASSESSMENT TO REGULATION IN SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM

Nature-based GI solutions are solutions that are inspired and supported by nature using the green infrastructures as providers and sources of inspirations.

Ecosystem services are the benefits that flow from nature to people. They can be provisioning (e.g. the supply of food, clean air and water and materials), regulating (e.g. water and climate regulation, nutrient cycling, pollination, or the formation of fertile soils), or cultural (e.g. recreation opportunities, or the inspiration we draw from nature).