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Spatio-temporal modeling of lake’s ecosystem and dynamism in response to changing environment: a case study of L. Ol Bolossat in Kenya
Lakes’ ecosystems are vulnerable to environmental dynamisms prompted by natural processes and anthropogenic activities happening in catchment areas....
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Climate-altered Precipitation is more Important than Land Use when Modeling Ecosystem Services Associated with Surficial Processes
Ecosystem services (ESs) associated with surficial processes may change according to shifts in land use, land cover, and climate parameters....
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Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania
Standard tools that can quantitatively track the impacts of higher global demand for animal-sourced food to their local environmental effects in...
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Modeling ecosystem functions’ failure modes: formulating fuzzy risk priorities in the forests of western Iran
The concepts of ecosystem functions and ecosystem services are among the most important issues related to ecosystems. These concepts have a...
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Ecosystem services valuation: a review of concepts, systems, new issues, and considerations about pollution in ecosystem services
Managers can determine the function of ecosystem services in decision-making processes through valuation. Ecological functions and processes that...
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A Global Systematic Literature Review of Ecosystem Services in Reef Environments
Ecosystem services (ES) embrace contributions of nature to human livelihood and well-being. Reef environments provide a range of ES with direct and...
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Linking ecotoxicological effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions to impairment of ecosystem services is a challenge: an illustration with the case of plant protection products
There is growing interest in using the ecosystem services framework for environmental risk assessments of chemicals, including plant protection...
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Ecosystem restoration and degradation monitoring using ecological indices
Ecosystem monitoring provides us with valuable information for modeling the future response to global changes and designing management plans. This...
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Nutrient contents and microbial communities as mediators of the effects of land-use in ecosystem functioning in alpine ecosystems from Central Mexico
PurposeThe interplay between microbial taxonomy, functional diversity, and land-use changes across diverse ecosystems must be better understood. This...
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Bedrock mediates responses of ecosystem productivity to climate variability
Sensitivity of ecosystem productivity to climate variability is a critical component of ecosystem resilience to climate change. Variation in...
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Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation
The large-scale loss of ecosystem assets around the world, and the resultant reduction in the provision of nature’s benefits to people, underscores...
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Participatory and Spatially Explicit Assessment to Envision the Future of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Scenarios on Selected Ecosystem Services in Southwestern Ghana
Settlement expansion and commercial agriculture affect landscape sustainability and ecosystem service provision. Integrated landscape approaches are...
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Identifying priority areas for conservation: using ecosystem services hotspot map** for land-use/land-cover planning in central of Iran
The modeling and map** of hotspots and coldspots ecosystem services (ESs) is an essential factor in the decision-making process for ESs...
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Land use intensification causes the spatial contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia
Integrating biodiversity conservation and food production is vital, particularly in the tropics where many landscapes are highly biodiverse, and...
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Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis
One of the paramount challenges in natural resource management revolves around the delicate equilibrium between the demand for and the supply of...
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Payment for Ecosystem Services: institutional arrangements for a changing climate in the Chilean Mediterranean Region
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) can promote different types of governance arrangements to address the triple challenge of biodiversity loss,...
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Earlier spring greening in Northern Hemisphere terrestrial biomes enhanced net ecosystem productivity in summer
The northern terrestrial biomes are being remarkably altered by climate change. Higher springtime temperature induces the earlier greening of...
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Priority areas and benefits of ecosystem restoration in Bei**g
Ecological restoration can significantly improve ecosystem services and human well-being and provide a basis for regional coordinated development and...
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Modeling impacts of invasive sharp tooth African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) and Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) on the ecosystem of a tropical reservoir ecosystem in India
Invasive species exert a strong impact on the trophic structure and functioning of the ecosystem they occupy. A modeling software globally used to...
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Donor-side valuation of forest ecosystem services in China during 1990–2020
China’s forest ecosystem service supply has faced intense pressure during the last few decades, calling for a unified valuation on a long timescale...
