In the end, land use is not the most important component, according to Plantinga. "The point is to identify which types of ecosystem services are provided as land use changes," he concluded.

One of the methods to assess Ecosystem Services (ES) - the benefits people obtain from ecosystems: the ES Matrix approach, has been increasingly used in the last decade. A review of its ...

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 ...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, launched by the United Nations in 2001, defines four broad categories of ecosystem services. Provisioning services are the products from ecosystems, ...

Based on the UN’s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, created to analyze the impact of our actions on ecosystems and their benefits to us, ecosystem services are grouped into four major categories ...

Nature’s ability to provide services like clean water and food security is in jeopardy, threatening the very existence of human life. Nearly one million animal and plant species (out of an estimated ...

ABSTRACT. To maximize specific ecosystem services (ES) such as food production, people alter landscape structure, i.e., the types of ecosystems present, their relative proportions, and their spatial ...

Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: Spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation , 21 (4), 302-310. doi: 10.1016/j ...

The long-term impacts of marine heat waves on biodiversity and management strategies required to mitigate further damage were ...