High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, the interactions between ecosystem service provision, disturbance and landscape composition are ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — As population grows, society needs more — more energy, more food, more paper, more housing, more of nearly everything. Meeting those needs can lead to changes in how land is ...

One of the methods to assess Ecosystem Services (ES) - the benefits people obtain from ecosystems: the ES Matrix approach, has been increasingly used in the last decade. A review of its application ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep 2015) (15 pages) ABSTRACT. Cultural ecosystem services are the nonmaterial ways in which humans derive benefits from ecosystems. They are distinct from other ...

Most of Brazil’s 701 native mammal species provide critical ecosystem services that benefit people, according to a new study. However, more than half of the species providing ecosystem services are ...

Tim M. Daw, Christina C. Hicks, Katrina Brown, Tomas Chaigneau, Fraser A. Januchowski-Hartley, William W. L. Cheung, Sérgio Rosendo, Beatrice Crona, Sarah Coulthard ...

Ecosystems support plant and animal life by maintaining the overall balance in nature. When functioning well, ecosystems also bring multiple benefits to people. These benefits range from provision of ...

This year’s observance of World Wildlife Day—3 March 2022—focuses on the recovery of key species and the restoration of the planet’s ecosystems. This important theme provides us with the opportunity ...

Human-driven changes to landscapes worldwide are 'thinning out' the ecological services supplied by wild birds, eroding the ...