Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

PM Kopittke, AA Berhe, Y Carrillo… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Not only do soils provide 98.7% of the calories consumed by humans, they also provide
numerous other functions upon which planetary survivability closely depends. However, our …

A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

R Seppelt, CF Dormann, FV Eppink… - Journal of applied …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem services are defined as the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems.
Employing the ecosystem service concept is intended to support the development of policies …

Sustainability in global agriculture driven by organic farming

F Eyhorn, A Muller, JP Reganold, E Frison… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Agricultural practices need to change to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals by 2030. How to achieve the SDGs is heavily contested. Here we propose a policy …

A blueprint for map** and modelling ecosystem services

ND Crossman, B Burkhard, S Nedkov, L Willemen… - Ecosystem …, 2013 - Elsevier
The inconsistency in methods to quantify and map ecosystem services challenges the
development of robust values of ecosystem services in national accounts and broader policy …

Pollinator habitat enhancement: benefits to other ecosystem services

SD Wratten, M Gillespie, A Decourtye, E Mader… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

A framework for classifying and quantifying the natural capital and ecosystem services of soils

E Dominati, M Patterson, A Mackay - Ecological economics, 2010 - Elsevier
The ecosystem services and natural capital of soils are often not recognised and generally
not well understood. This paper addresses this issue by drawing on scientific understanding …

The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks

MJO Pocock, DM Evans, J Memmott - Science, 2012 - science.org
Understanding species' interactions and the robustness of interaction networks to species
loss is essential to understand the effects of species' declines and extinctions. In most …

A review of the elements of human well-being with an emphasis on the contribution of ecosystem services

JK Summers, LM Smith, JL Case, RA Linthurst - Ambio, 2012 - Springer
Natural ecosystems perform fundamental life-support services upon which human
civilization depends. However, many people believe that nature provides these services for …

A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision to support landscape planning

L Koschke, C Fürst, S Frank, F Makeschin - Ecological indicators, 2012 - Elsevier
The article presents a multicriteria assessment framework for the qualitative estimation of
regional potentials to provide ecosystem services as a prerequisite to support regional …

What is code biology?

M Barbieri - Biosystems, 2018 - Elsevier
Various independent discoveries have shown that many organic codes exist in living
systems, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and contributed …