The relationship between biodiversity and the rapidly expanding research and policy field of
ecosystem services is confused and is damaging efforts to create coherent policy. Using the …

In recent years, conservation planning, policy, and communications have increasingly
emphasized the human benefits, or “ecosystem services,” provided by nonhuman nature. In …

Insects have presented human society with some of its greatest development challenges by
spreading diseases, consuming crops and damaging infrastructure. Despite the massive …

Abstract The United States has thousands of invasive species, representing a sizable, but
unknown burden to the national economy. Given the potential economic repercussions of …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

Biodiversity supports a range of ecosystems services that are of fundamental importance to
people in poor countries. Economic valuation of biodiversity is important for the development …

On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress
over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of …

Since the late 1960s, the valuation of ecosystem services has received ample attention in
scientific literature. However, to date, there has been relatively little elaboration of the …

Water, food and energy are at the core of human needs and there is a boundless complex
cycle among these three basic human needs. Ecosystems are in the center of this nexus …

Conventional sectoral management and piecemeal governance are considered less and
less appropriate in pursuit of sustainable development. Ecosystem based marine spatial …