Soil quality indicators: critical tools in ecosystem restoration

M Muñoz-Rojas - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2018 - Elsevier
Defining clear goals for ecosystem restoration, and develo** effective tools to assess and
monitor progress, are critical to achieve restoration success. Soil quality indicators can be …

Ecosystem service values as related to land use and land cover changes in Ethiopia: a review

M Biedemariam, E Birhane, B Demissie, T Tadesse… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans worldwide depend on ecosystems and the services they provide. Land use and
land cover change increasingly, influencing ecosystem values to the extent that the rate and …

Estimating the impacts of land use/land cover changes on Ecosystem Service Values: The case of the Andassa watershed in the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

T Gashaw, T Tulu, M Argaw, AW Worqlul, T Tolessa… - Ecosystem Services, 2018 - Elsevier
Estimating the impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes in Ecosystem Service Values
(ESV) is indispensable to provide public awareness about the status of ESV, and to help in …

The impacts of land-use and land-cover change on wetland ecosystem service values in peri-urban and urban area of Bahir Dar City, Upper Blue Nile Basin …

WW Assefa, BG Eneyew, A Wondie - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
Background Even though wetlands are essential in enhancing water quality and providing
recreation and entertainment opportunities in urban areas, their values are overlooked by …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem health: A study on a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan area of Lower Gangetic Plain, India

M Das, A Das, P Pereira, A Mandal - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The assessment of Ecosystem Health (EH) is crucial for effective ecosystem
services (ES) management and global environmental change assessment. This study aims …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of Urbanization and its impact on Urban Ecosystem Services (UESs): A study of a medium size town of West Bengal, Eastern India

M Das, A Das - Journal of Urban Management, 2019 - Elsevier
The continuous urban expansion changes the urban ecological landscape pattern and
urban ecosystem functions that possess serious challenge before urban environmental and …

Estimating global ecosystem service values and its response to land surface dynamics during 1995–2015

S Sannigrahi, S Bhatt, S Rahmat, SK Paul… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land use due to the industrial revolution, increasing population, ever-
increasing desire for economic growth is a global concern. The aforementioned changes …

Projecting the impacts of urban expansion on simultaneous losses of ecosystem services: A case study in Bei**g, China

W **e, Q Huang, C He, X Zhao - Ecological indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Assessing the impacts of urban expansion on ecosystem services (ESs) is fundamental to
understanding urban sustainability. However, little is known about the intensity of …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

[HTML][HTML] Compositional and structural changes in soil microbial communities in response to straw mulching and plant revegetation in an abandoned artificial pasture in …

G Liu, Z Bai, F Shah, G Cui, Z **ao, H Gong, D Li… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The overgrazing and overutilization of pastures can lead to serious degradation that can be
restored through proper management practices. However, little is known about the dynamic …