To enter widespread use, ecosystem service assessments need to be quantifiable,
replicable, credible, flexible, and affordable. With recent growth in the field of ecosystem …

Background Research on ecosystem services has grown exponentially during the last
decade. Most of the studies have focused on assessing and map** terrestrial ecosystem …

Ecosystem services can provide a wide range of benefits for human well-being, including
provisioning, regulating and cultural services and benefitting both private and public …

Ecosystem services provide an instinctive way to understand the trade-offs associated with
natural resource management. However, despite their apparent usefulness, several hurdles …

One of the key challenges for ecosystem services research is to develop a comprehensive
methodological approach in which biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary value-domains …

This review assesses existing data, models, and other knowledge-based methods for
valuing the effects of sustainable land management including the cost of land degradation …

Ecological restoration is becoming regarded as a major strategy for increasing the provision
of ecosystem services as well as reversing biodiversity losses. Here, we show that …

A range of policy initiatives have been promoted in recent years to address the decline of
bee populations in Europe and North America. Among these has been the establishment of …

The 'ecosystem service'debate has taken on many features of a classic Kuhnian paradigm. It
challenges conventional wisdoms about conservation and the value of nature, and is driven …

The global reach of human activities affects all natural ecosystems, so that the environment
is best viewed as a social–ecological system. Consequently, a more integrative approach to …