A Revisit to the Impacts of Land Use Changes on the Human Wellbeing via Altering the Ecosystem Provisioning Services by Xiangzheng Deng, Zhihui Li, Jikun Huang, Qingling Shi, Yanfei Li

“…In the light of enhanced observation and valuation methods, several approaches to ecosystem services and improved models for assessing those ecosystem services were assessed. …”
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Valuing Florida Water Resources: Water Use in Irrigated Agriculture by Tatiana Borisova, Syed Irfan Ali Shah, Tara Wade, Kelly Grogan, Xiang Bi

“… Water resources provide us with a variety of goods and services (altogether often referred to as ecosystem services or environmental services.) Part of a series entitled Economic Value of Florida Water Resources, this 5-page fact sheet written by Tatiana Borisova, Syed Irfan Ali Shah, Tara Wade, Kelly Grogan, and Xiang Bi and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department assesses the economic value of the ecosystem services provided by irrigation water and shows the importance to agriculture of water resource protection and restoration.  …”
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Valuing Florida Water Resources: Water Use in Irrigated Agriculture by Tatiana Borisova, Syed Irfan Ali Shah, Tara Wade, Kelly Grogan, Xiang Bi

“… Water resources provide us with a variety of goods and services (altogether often referred to as ecosystem services or environmental services.) Part of a series entitled Economic Value of Florida Water Resources, this 5-page fact sheet written by Tatiana Borisova, Syed Irfan Ali Shah, Tara Wade, Kelly Grogan, and Xiang Bi and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department assesses the economic value of the ecosystem services provided by irrigation water and shows the importance to agriculture of water resource protection and restoration.  …”
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A Patch-Level Data Synthesis Pipeline Enhances Species-Level Crop and Weed Segmentation in Natural Agricultural Scenes by Tang Li, James Burridge, Pieter M. Blok, Wei Guo

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Timber Production in a Working Forest Context by Sonia Delphin, Francisco Escobedo, Chris Demers, Alison E. Adams, Damian C. Adams

“… Working forests are private forests managed not just for timber production but also for a host of valuable ecosystem services like providing for recreation, maintaining habitat for wildlife, and maintaining a healthy watershed. …”
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Timber Production in a Working Forest Context by Sonia Delphin, Francisco Escobedo, Chris Demers, Alison E. Adams, Damian C. Adams

“… Working forests are private forests managed not just for timber production but also for a host of valuable ecosystem services like providing for recreation, maintaining habitat for wildlife, and maintaining a healthy watershed. …”
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Green actions for innovative cities. The new agri-food landscape by Emanuele Sommariva, Nicola Valentino Canessa, Giorgia Tucci

“… The role of ecosystem services is interlinked with the growing awareness of research and development funding programmes sensitive to green infrastructure and urban greening strategies. …”
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Perennial flower strips in agricultural landscapes strongly promote earthworm populations by Anna Vaupel, Zita Bednar-Konski, Matías Olivera, Nadine Herwig, Bernd Hommel, Lukas Beule

“…Abstract The loss of soil biodiversity through agricultural intensification is a major contributor to the collapse of ecosystem services. Despite their wide application to promote biodiversity, the impact of flower strips on soil organisms is largely unknown. …”
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Carbon Stocks on Forest Stewardship Program and Adjacent Lands by Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, Damian C. Adams

“… Nonindustrial private forestlands in Florida provide many environmental benefits, or ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are benefits from nature that are directly enjoyed, consumed, or used by humans, such as water quality improvement or protection, recreation, biodiversity, and even timber. …”
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Carbon Stocks on Forest Stewardship Program and Adjacent Lands by Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, Damian C. Adams

“… Nonindustrial private forestlands in Florida provide many environmental benefits, or ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are benefits from nature that are directly enjoyed, consumed, or used by humans, such as water quality improvement or protection, recreation, biodiversity, and even timber. …”
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Quel futur pour les services écosystémiques de la forêt alpine dans un contexte de changement climatique ? by Benoît Courbaud, Georges Kunstler, Xavier Morin, Thomas Cordonnier

“…Mountain forests produce a large number of ecosystem services that are going to be affected by climate change. …”
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Assembly mechanisms, not species pool, shape β-diversity of soil methanotrophic communities in steppes of China by Yongping Kou, Zhe Feng, Huan Li, Yanjiao Liu, Yanjiao Liu, Lin Xu, Lin Xu, Xiangzhen Li

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A Landowner’s Introduction to the Forest Carbon Market by Natalia Medina Irizarry, Michael Andreu, Tamara Cushing

“… In recent years, carbon programs have emerged that allow forest landowners to receive payment for the ecosystem services their forests provide. The primary service of interest is carbon sequestration because it has been deemed one of the solutions to climate change. …”
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Valuing Florida Water Resources: Summary by Regions by Fei He, Tatiana Borisova, Xiang Bi, Kelly Grogan

“…The focus of this paper is specifically on supporting and regulating ecosystem services provided by Florida water resources. …”
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Integrating territorial pattern changes into the relationship between carbon sequestration and water yield in the Yangtze River Basin, China by Zelin Liu, Xiaoting Yu, Cong Liu, Ziying Zou, Changhui Peng, Peng Li, Jiayi Tang, Haoyun Liu, Yihang Zhu, Chunbo Huang

“…It is significant to demonstrate the coordination relationships between the territorial space evolutions and ecosystem services for sustainable regional development. …”
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Animating the critical zone: beavers as critical zone engineers by Clifford Adamchak, Clifford Adamchak, Katherine B. Lininger, Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley, Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley

“…River corridors (RC) provide a disproportionate amount of ecosystem services. Over time, beaver activity, including submersion of woody vegetation, burrowing, dam building, and abandonment, can impact critical zone processes in the river corridor by influencing landscape evolution, biodiversity, geomorphology, hydrology, primary productivity, and biogeochemical cycling. …”
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Exploring the spatiotemporal effects of urban scale and urban vitality on S&D balance in the Yangtze River Delta, China from 2015 to 2025 by Ke Wang, Qiuxiao Chen

“…Abstract Analysis of the spatiotemporal trends of urban scale and urban vitality on ecosystem services balance provides an essential basis for regional sustainable development. …”
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Evaluation and Changes in the Comprehensive Ecological Effects of Agriculture in Urbanizing Areas: A Case Study of the Xi'an Metropolitan Zone, China by Zhongxue Zhou, Fangze Zhao, Bingjie Song

“…The framework integrates research on ecosystem services, biodiversity, carbon emissions, pollution, and ecological stability. …”
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Assessment of soil and water resources in the Gando Protected Area by jalil Badamfirooz, leyla sharifi

“…By assessing the functions and ecosystem services of protected areas, planners and decision-makers of land use planning and sustainable development at the regional and national levels can be of great help. …”
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Reconciliation ecology, from biological to social challenges by Denis Couvet, Frédéric Ducarme

“…We define such biodiversity as an alternative to species and site specific conservation approaches, demonstrating its analytical power to understand the dynamics of biodiversity changes, its consequences, in particular in regards to the fate of regulating ecosystem services. We then examine its potential for social legitimacy through a review of philosophical and policy frameworks. …”
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