Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Biological insurance theory predicts that, in a variable environment, aggregate ecosystem
properties will vary less in more diverse communities because declines in the performance …

In response to the important benefits forests provide, there is a growing effort to reforest the
world. Past policies and current commitments indicate that many of these forests will be …

Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans obtain from nature, are of great
importance for human well-being. The challenge of meeting the growing human demands …

BACKGROUND Modern advances in remote-sensing technology are providing
unprecedented opportunities to accurately measure the global distribution of carbon held in …

Ecosystem services (ESs) trade-offs are directly influenced by land use change which
resulted from urbanization and ecological restoration globally or locally. However, the …

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 …

There is a growing pressure of human activities on natural habitats, which leads to
biodiversity losses. To mitigate the impact of human activities, environmental policies are …

Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the
importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management …

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing
social–ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific …