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

Biodiversity's contribution to human welfare has become a key argument for maintaining and
enhancing biodiversity in managed ecosystems. The functional relationship between …

Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that
simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing …

Urbanisation poses new and complex sustainability challenges. Socio-economic activities
drive material and energy flows in cities that influence the health of ecosystems inside and …

Results-based agri-environmental schemes (AES) seek to overcome reluctance to adopt
other forms of AES in the European Union. Instead of complying with inflexible land …

The production of ecosystem services (ES) is highly dependent on the current state of spatial
distribution, pattern of occurrence, and interaction among them, which is barely studied in …

Synergistically maintain or enhance the numerous beneficial contributions of nature to the
quality of human life is an important but challenging question for achieving Sustainable …

Ecosystem services are generated by ecological processes over a range of scales. Studying
the scale effects on ecosystem services is important for exploring the driving mechanisms …

Decentralized rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a promising approach to mitigate drought in
the drylands. However, an insufficient understanding of its impact on hydrological processes …

Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research grew rapidly following concerns that
biodiversity loss would negatively affect ecosystem functions and the ecosystem services …