Background Aroma compounds can be produced using three main methods: chemical
synthesis, extraction from nature, and biotechnological process (bioaromas). In the latter …

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

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

In the life sciences, there is wide-ranging debate about biodiversity. While nearly everyone
is in favor of biodiversity and its conservation, methods for its assessment vary enormously …

Tropical landscapes represent storehouses of medicinal drug plants. It is widely held that
these medicinal resources—real and potential—are threatened by a host of destructive …

div Biological diversity is as crucial in agriculture as it is in nature, and it is equally important
to the economic health of both industrial and nonindustrial societies. This book offers a …

1994, Getz et al. 1999). Given the real possibility of win–win outcomes through an approach
that gives more to the poor while trying to improve conservation indicators, communitybased …

One of the most famous benefit-sharing initiatives to date is the San-Hoodia case. The San
peoples are the oldest human inhabitants of southern Africa, but after centuries of genocide …

One of the most important challenges of the 21st century is the quest for economic
development models that respect the planet's ecosystem. Rather than imposing our …

The main focus of this paper is agrobiodiversity and its effects on agricultural production
within agricultural landscapes. The interest is to shed light about the fundamental causes of …