Green infrastructure (GI) and ecosystem services (ES) are promoted as concepts that have
potential to improve environmental planning in urban areas based on a more holistic …

Since its founding in 1993 the International Long-term Ecological Research Network (ILTER)
has gone through pronounced development phases. The current network comprises 44 …

Understanding the supply and demand characteristics of ecosystem services (ESs) and their
trade-offs is the basis for effective ecosystem management and the improvement of human …

The high variety of ecosystem service categorisation systems, assessment frameworks,
indicators, quantification methods and spatial localisation approaches allows scientists and …

Among the main effects of human activities on the environment are land use and resulting
land cover changes. Such changes impact the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and …

Ecosystem service research covers a challenging socio-ecological complexity and
simultaneously copes with a high policy demand for decision support in sustainable …

The ecosystem service concept is becoming more and more acknowledged in science and
decision-making, resulting in several applications in different case studies and in …

Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are
the benefits humans obtain from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to …

Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term
environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased …

Quantitative analysis of the response of ecosystem health to rural land use change is
required to comprehend the human-nature coupling mechanism and to explore the process …