Soil plays a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. In the 1990s ecosystem services (ES)
research focused on develo** the concept and framework and only a few studies linked …

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 …

Ecosystem services are substantial elements for human society. The central challenge to
meet the human needs from ecosystems while sustain the Earth's life support systems …

As an important part of the strategy of Western development, the Grain-for-Green Program
(GFGP) was initiated to protect the environment and mitigate disasters. Ecosystem services …

Global climate change and human activities are expected to have far-reaching implications
for the associations between ecosystem services (ESs), especially in arid regions. Here …

Research on the natural driving mechanism and trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem
services (ES) is a prerequisite for the implementation of scientific integrated ecosystem …

Land use change in the form of urbanization is a direct driver affecting the provision of
ecosystem services from forests. To better understand this driver, we modeled the effects of …

Land use/land cover (LULC) changes are likely to become more frequent and intense as a
result of anthropogenic activities and may significantly affect human welfare by modifying …

Identifying scale effect on spatial patterns of ecosystem services and associations among
them has been recognized as critical to the sustainable management of ecosystem services …

The contribution of ecosystems to human well-being has been widely recognised. Taking
into account existing trade-offs between ecosystem services (ES) at the farm scale and the …