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A new framework for assessing ecosystem health with consideration of the sustainable supply of ecosystem services
ContextThe establishment of an ecosystem health assessment framework from a human–environment view is vital to landscape sustainability. Although...
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Ecosystem Services
The ecosystem services concept represents the benefits provided by nature to people. This concept has been increasingly applied through the past two...
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Aquaculture Ecosystem
Aquaculture ecosystem is a special type of industrial ecosystem, which is similar to aquatic ecosystem in natural attributes, and similar to...
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Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide
Invasive species are pervasive around the world and have profound impacts on the ecosystem they invade. Invasive species, however, can also have...
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Impacts of Plant Invasions on Ecosystem Functionality: A Perspective for Ecosystem Health and Ecosystem Services
Invasive plants affect the capacity of ecosystems to perform key functions, including primary production, nutrient and water cycling, decomposition,...
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The tidyomics ecosystem: enhancing omic data analyses
The growth of omic data presents evolving challenges in data manipulation, analysis and integration. Addressing these challenges, Bioconductor...
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Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding
Anthropomorphic activities have caused major damage to ecosystems worldwide. Although documenting this damage is important, implementing measures to...
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Benefactions of Agroforestry to Ecosystem Services
The human population is benefited from Agroforestry systems (AFs) and practices since man settled down and learned the cultivation of crops. However,...
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Ecosystem Goods and Services
This chapter examines ecosystem goods and services in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. The ecosystem services are interlinked with the highlands (providers)...
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Economic valuation of ecosystem services in canola agroecosystems
Ecosystem service values are divided into three categories: direct use values, indirect use values, and non-use values. In this research, the...
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Disentangling Ecosystem Necromass Dynamics for Biodiversity Conservation
Global environmental change has redistributed earth’s biomass and the inputs and dynamics of basal detrital resources in ecosystems, contributing to...
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Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration
Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt theory opens new perspectives for understanding animal extinction. The umwelt is interpreted here as a sum of structural...
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Research needs on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship in drylands
Research carried out in drylands over the last decade has provided major insights on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship (BEFr) and...
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Ecosystem type might mask the effect of ecosystem recovery on parasitoids’ biodiversity quality
Ecological restoration is considered a tool for repairing anthropogenic habitat disturbances, but the biodiversity recovering needs to be monitored....
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide....
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Ecosystem Stability Assessment with Coupled Quality and Function Characteristics: A Case of Upper Baiyangdian Watershed
AbstractQuantitative assessments of ecosystem stability are critical to properly understand the internal state of ecosystems and to implement...
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Assessing pollinator habitat suitability considering ecosystem condition in the Hannover Region, Germany
ContextHabitat suitability for pollinator species is an important indicator for pollination ecosystem service potential, i.e. for biodiversity and...
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Plant height as an indicator for alpine carbon sequestration and ecosystem response to warming
Growing evidence indicates that plant community structure and traits have changed under climate warming, especially in cold or high-elevation...
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Exploring the ecosystem health of a tropical Indian estuary using mass-balanced ecosystem model
Estuaries provide life support to aquatic biota and livelihood support to fishermen and local inhabitants. However, the ecosystem function of...
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Perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services in urban river systems, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The ecosystem services concept has been studied in rural contexts but not as much in urban landscapes, particularly for aquatic ecosystems in Africa....
