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 …

Although its role in the functioning of aquatic systems is widely recognized, the contribution
of freshwater metazooplankton (metazoan plankton) to ecosystem services (ES) is seldom …

Soil fungi are key players in nutrient cycles as decomposers, mutualists and pathogens, but
the impact of tropical rain forest transformation into rubber or oil palm plantations on fungal …

Urban green spaces provide regulating ecosystem services (RS) to humans and contribute
to biodiversity conservation under urbanization pressure. However, trade-offs arise while …

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to
the key aspects of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services is one of the most powerful …

Nowadays, the loss of biodiversity in agroecosystems due to the intensification of farming
practices is happening very fast, and therefore, stop** or slowing it down should be a …

Land-use intensification is a major threat to arthropods across agricultural landscapes. To
mitigate these negative effects through appropriate landscape management, it is necessary …

Agricultural intensification is among the major threats to farmland biodiversity and
associated ecosystem services. Agri-environment schemes in Europe aim to counteract the …

Provisioning ecosystem services play a vital role in sustaining human well-being. Agro-
ecosystems contribute a significant share of these services, besides food and fodder and …

Reliable monitoring of arthropod diversity in a given agroecosystem is essential for the
conservation of the related ecosystem services, such as biological control. The often …