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Tao Huang, Wilfred M. Wollheim and Stephen H. Jones
Fecal contamination is a significant source of water quality impairment globally. Aquatic ecosystems can provide an important ecosystem service of fecal contamination removal. Understanding the processes that regulate the removal of fecal contamination a...
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Susana M. Marques, Felipe S. Campos, João David and Pedro Cabral
Soils provide important regulating ecosystem services and have crucial implications for human well-being and environmental conservation. However, soil degradation and particularly soil erosion jeopardize the maintenance and existence of these services. T...
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Sai Hu, Longqian Chen, Long Li, Bingyi Wang, Lina Yuan, Liang Cheng, Ziqi Yu and Ting Zhang
Urbanization-induced land-use change will lead to variations in the demand and supply of ecosystem services, thus significantly affecting regional ecosystem services. The continuous degradation of ecosystem functions has become a serious problem for huma...
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Jesse Caputo and Brett Butler
Individuals and families collectively own more than 118 million ha of forestland in the USA. Using data from the USDA Forest Service?s National Woodland Owners Survey (NWOS), we characterize ecosystem services being produced on family forests as well as ...
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Jingya Liu, Jing Li, Ziyi Gao, Min Yang, Keyu Qin and Xiaonan Yang
Global climate and environmental changes are endangering global water resources; and several approaches have been tested to manage and reduce the pressure on these decreasing resources. This study uses the case study of Xi?an City in China to test reason...
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Daniel A. Friess
Ecosystem services are now strongly applied to mangrove forests, though they are not a new way of viewing mangrove-people interactions; the benefits provided by such habitats, and the negative interactions (ecosystem disservices) between mangroves and pe...
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