Farming is the largest constructed ecosystem and is highly dependent on ecosystem services from the natural environment, as agricultural ecosystems make up around 40% of the Earth’s terrestrial area 1 ...

Tradeoffs and synergies between ecosystem services constitute an important topic in ecosystem management. The value of each service is substantially influenced by human activities, and changes will ...

Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic material needs, health, social interaction and individual liberty. This is how the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 described it, ...

Grasslands cover a major share of the world’s agricultural land and their management influences ecosystem services. Spatially targeted policy instruments can increase the provision of ecosystem ...

You may never have heard of ecosystem services, but you'd be hard-pressed to live without them. David Biello reports "I happen to hate the phrase ecosystem services, and my colleagues in business and ...

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 ...

Just as they do in forests and other natural ecosystems, trees deliver a variety of ecosystem services in cities. They sequester carbon and reduce air pollution and stormwater runoff, for instance.

The term 'ecosystem services' is used increasingly in conservation. But does it actually serve its intended purpose? To break free of the limits imposed by the current technocratic governance of ...

Free pollination services: a bee at an almond orchard in California. Randy Stiefer, CC BY-NC As a professor of ecology, I know all too well that there’s no shortage of environmental ills to keep us ...