Molluscan Shellfish Aquaculture and Production by Huiping Yang, Leslie N. Sturmer, Shirley Baker

“… Molluscan shellfish aquaculture provides high quality and high value seafood for human consumption, and shellfish provide environmentally beneficial ecosystem services, such as nutrient extraction and water filtration, to the environment in which they are grown. …”
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Artificial Reefs and People: How We Create Them and How They Affect Us by Lisa Chong, Keith Mille, Holly Abeels, Victor Blanco, Ed Camp

“… Artificial reefs are constructed to provide several important ecosystem services to coastal communities and fisheries around the world, and their deployment results in significant socio-ecological and economic effects. …”
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Molluscan Shellfish Aquaculture and Production by Huiping Yang, Leslie N. Sturmer, Shirley Baker

“… Molluscan shellfish aquaculture provides high quality and high value seafood for human consumption, and shellfish provide environmentally beneficial ecosystem services, such as nutrient extraction and water filtration, to the environment in which they are grown. …”
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Rotala: A New Aquatic Invader in Southern Florida by Lyn A. Gettys, Carl J. Della Torre

“…Extremely dense submersed populations and large thick mats dominate the surface of the water, greatly reducing ecosystem services, because oxygen level and light penetration are hampered. …”
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Artificial Reefs and People: How We Create Them and How They Affect Us by Lisa Chong, Keith Mille, Holly Abeels, Victor Blanco, Ed Camp

“… Artificial reefs are constructed to provide several important ecosystem services to coastal communities and fisheries around the world, and their deployment results in significant socio-ecological and economic effects. …”
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The Costs of Managing an Urban Forest by Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer Seitz

“…Urban forests provide benefits to society often referred to as ecosystem services: they improve human health, environmental quality, and local economies by increasing property values and aesthetics in communities. …”
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Economic Contributions of the Forest Industry and Forest-based Recreation in Florida in 2016 by Christa Dean Court, Alan W Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani

“…In addition to industrial forest-related activity, public forestlands in Florida support a variety of recreational activities, attract a significant number of recreational visitors, and provide many non-marketed environmental or ecosystem services. This 4-page fact sheet written by Christa Dean Court, Alan W Hodges, and Mohammad Rahmani and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department describes a study that analyzed the economic contributions of the forest industry and forest-based recreation activities to the state of Florida in 2016. …”
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Climate change, freshwater ecosystems and inland fisheries: implications for the developing nations by Biju Kumar A

“… Freshwater ecosystems are vital for ensuring drinking water supplies, bio-resources that support livelihood, and a wide array of ecosystem services. Further, they are among the key components in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) set for the year 2030, including poverty reduction, food security, clean water and sanitation, conservation of biodiversity, and climate action. …”
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What are urban mangroves? by Gabriela Reyes, Ashley Smyth, Laura Reynolds

“…While urban mangroves may be highly impacted by humans, they continue to provide important ecosystem services, or benefits to society. In fact, due to their location, more people may benefit from these urban mangroves than from pristine mangroves, which are often located in protected areas. …”
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Rotala: A New Aquatic Invader in Southern Florida by Lyn A. Gettys, Carl J. Della Torre

“…Extremely dense submersed populations and large thick mats dominate the surface of the water, greatly reducing ecosystem services, because oxygen level and light penetration are hampered. …”
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Topic modelling of the wetland condition assessment literature reveals trends, key gaps, and opportunities for combining different assessment techniques by Kaline de Mello, Osmar Luiz, Erica A. Garcia, Anna E. Richards

“…Wetlands, crucial for global biodiversity and ecosystem services, face escalating degradation due to human activities. …”
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Economic Value of the Services Provided by Florida Springs and Other Water Bodies: A Summary of Existing Studies by Sara Wynn, Tatiana Borisova, Alan Hodges

“…In these studies, economists measure the value of ecosystem services in dollar terms to assist management decisions concerning natural resources. …”
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The environmental price of socio-economic development: Worldwide trends from 1990 to 2016 by Katja VINTAR MALLY

“…However, for only 38% of countries could it be concluded that socio-economic progress in the period 1990-2016 was achieved while reducing the per capita consumption of natural resources and ecosystem services. …”
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A Review: Farmers' Local Wisdom on Natural Resources by Zuhud Rozaki, Oki Wijaya, Khamsing Keothoumma, Emil Salim

“…Natural resources, especially in terms of soil, water, plant and animal diversity, vegetation cover, climate, and ecosystem services, are fundamental for agricultural systems' structure and function. …”
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Integrated readings for the urban green roof. Expressive codes and forms of nature by Alberto Bologna, Adriana Ghersi, Stefano Melli

“… The quality of public space requires new study paradigms: interconnected pieces of a broader urban green system can guarantee ecosystem services and liveability to spaces full of cultural meaning and social attraction. …”
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Spatial temporal dynamics and influential factors of habitat quality in China's Southern Longji rice terrace ecosystem by Cao Hongli

“…Rice terrace ecosystems (RTEs) offer a wealth of ecosystem services vital to human well-being. Regrettably, the recent period has witnessed a growing trend of abandonment and habitat degradation within RTEs. …”
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Economic Value of the Services Provided by Florida Springs and Other Water Bodies: A Summary of Existing Studies by Sara Wynn, Tatiana Borisova, Alan Hodges

“…In these studies, economists measure the value of ecosystem services in dollar terms to assist management decisions concerning natural resources. …”
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Global decline in net primary production underestimated by climate models by Thomas J. Ryan-Keogh, Alessandro Tagliabue, Sandy J. Thomalla

“…Abstract Marine net primary production supports critical ecosystem services and the carbon cycle. However, the lack of consensus in the direction and magnitude of projected change in net primary production from models undermines efforts to assess climate impacts on marine ecosystems with confidence. …”
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Exploring the climate-environment-health nexus: Insights for informed action by Harvey V. Fineberg

“…Climate change, as a pervasive force, impacts human health directly, for instance through extreme weather events, and indirectly through phenomena like air pollution from wildfires, and alterations to ecosystem services. Our understanding of health has evolved over time from ancient philosophical roots to modern scientific insights. …”
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Ecological Conscience and Peace in the Social Doctrine of the Church by Fabio Caporali

“…Innovative conceptual terms, like natural capital, biosphere, noosphere, anthropocene, ecosystem services, sustainability, integral ecology, ecological spirituality and ecological conversion are recognised as typical eco-linguistic emergences arisen within a context of holistic framing of reality. …”
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