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 …

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 …

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 …

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

This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate
change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize …

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 …

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 …

Around the world, leaders are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets
that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge is to turn this …

Land-use change has a significant impact on the world's ecosystems. Changes in the extent
and composition of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems have large impacts …