Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and their
social and cultural values. However, their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services …

Research on ecosystem services (ESs) has increased substantially in recent decades, but
the findings have been slow to affect actual management, perhaps because most studies to …

Plants can produce and release allelochemicals to interfere with the establishment and
growth of conspecific and interspecific plants. Such allelopathy is an important mediator …

Ecosystem service research has long been dominated by a monetary interpretation of value,
neglecting other social perspectives on the importance of ecosystems for human well-being …

We describe and reflect on seven recurring critiques of the concept of ecosystem services
and respective counter‐arguments. First, the concept is criticized for being anthropocentric …

Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental
management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few …

Although the ecosystem services provided by mountain grasslands have been
demonstrated to be highly vulnerable to environmental and management changes in the …

Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold
exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a …