Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature
and in the media to the concept of “ecosystem” services of soils. The monetary valuation of …

Mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and decision making is dependent on the
availability of spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their …

Context A background assumption of landscape approaches is that some landscape
patterns are more sustainable than others, and thus searching for these patterns should be a …

The inconsistency in methods to quantify and map ecosystem services challenges the
development of robust values of ecosystem services in national accounts and broader policy …

This review assesses existing data, models, and other knowledge-based methods for
valuing the effects of sustainable land management including the cost of land degradation …

Ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services (ES) to society. Ignoring the multi-
functionality of land systems in natural resource management generates potential trade-offs …

Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global
force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to …

Considering the increasing uptake of the concept of “ecosystem services” in landscape
management and environmental policies, it is urgent to establish a consensual framework to …

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 …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …