High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, the interactions between ecosystem service provision, disturbance and landscape composition are ...

New report by WWF is a contribution to the FSC's work on payment for ecosystem services. During its last General Assembly in October 2021, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced a new roadmap ...

Environmental conservation efforts have traditionally focused on protecting individual species or natural resources. Scientists are discovering, however, that preserving the benefits that whole ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar 2016) (10 pages) ABSTRACT. Dramatic changes in ecosystem services have motivated recent work characterizing their interactions, including identifying ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec 2011) (16 pages) ABSTRACT. The theoretical framework of ecosystem services and that of resilience thinking are combined in an empirical case study of a ...

Due to human expansion in agriculture and livestock, logging, gas and oil exploration, and infrastructure expansion, forests today are more fragmented than ever before. While habitat degradation and ...

In a developing field like ecosystem services, there's bound to be a lot of competing paradigms out there, some of which may even argue that the entire field isn't all it's made out to be. A four-year ...

Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers. This should come as no surprise, ...

The 1,500+ parks and public green spaces stewarded by the City of Toronto play a critical role in Torontonians’ quality of life by: preventing flooding by absorbing stormwater reducing extreme heat ...

Information Services Group, a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research study examining service providers that help insurers implement and enhance the Duck ...