Influence of urbanization on size and biomass of a small-sized characid fish (Diapoma alburnum) in a subtropical river basin of southern Brazil by Otávio Gutierrez e Silva, Taís de Fátima Ramos Guimarães, Fernando Gertum Becker, Sandra Maria Hartz

“…They provide important ecosystem services, such as water supply for human consumption, industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, leisure activities, tourism and fishing. …”
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Challenges to Seagrass Restoration in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida by Vivienne A. Main, Morgan K. Gilligan, Sarah M. Cole, Todd Z. Osborne, Ashley R. Smyth, Loraé T. Simpson

“…Seagrasses provide valuable ecosystem services, including improved water quality, carbon sequestration, and sediment stabilization. …”
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Spatial-temporal Variation and Driving Forces of Water Yield in Harbin City by Qi Yuxin, Hu Yuandong

“…[Conclusion] Water yield assessment was closely related to ecosystem services and ecological product value, and serves as the basis of water conservation research. …”
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Reducing Rural Fire Risk through the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain Model for Residual Agroforestry Biomass Supported in a Web Platform: A Case Study in Portugal Central... by Margarida Casau, Marta Ferreira Dias, Leonor Teixeira, João C. O. Matias, Leonel J. R. Nunes

“…In the European Mediterranean region, rural fires are a widely known problem that cause serious socio-economic losses and undesirable environmental consequences, including the loss of lives, infrastructures, cultural heritage, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and the provisioning of raw materials. …”
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The Impact of Seasonal Vegetation Changes on Retention and Yield of Sediment Across the Tajan Watershed in Sari, Northern Iran by Mohammad Rahmani, Fazlolah Ahmadi Mirghaed, Sareh Molla Aghajanzadeh

“…Sediment retention (SR) and sediment yield (SY) are regulatory ecosystem services that would change due to seasonal vegetation conditions in a region. …”
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Invasive annual grasses destabilize plant communities in a northern mixed‐grass prairie by Morgan D. T. Frost, Lauren M. Porensky, Kurt O. Reinhart, Sally E. Koerner

“…Abstract Temporal community stability, here defined as temporal mean divided by temporal SD, plays an important role in predicting certain ecosystem services. However, temporal stability can change with invasion, with greater abundances of invasive species potentially having greater impacts on native community stability. …”
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Quantifying the Human Appropriation of Fresh Water by African Agriculture by Martina Weiß, Rüdiger Schaldach, Joseph Alcamo, Martina Flörke

“…Finally, they indicate that under the given scenarios, this additional production is very likely to come at the cost of the extent of natural biomes and their associated ecosystem services.…”
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Lentil Crop Rotation and Green Manuring Effects on Soil Structural Stability and Corn Yield in Different Soils in Central Greece by Dimitrios BESLEMES, Evangelia TIGKA, Ioanna KAKABOUKI, Dimitrios Vlachostergios, Ioannis ROUSSIS, Nikolaos DANALATOS

“…Grain legume production contributes widely to ecosystem services and have the potential to improve soil structure, increase soil organic carbon and reduce soil compaction. …”
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Risks of Mixtures of Oil Sands Contaminants to a Sensitive Mayfly Sentinel, <i>Hexagenia</i> by Julia Howland, Alexa Alexander, Danielle Milani, Kerry Peru, Joseph Culp

“…Mayflies provide ecosystem services and are an important food source for higher trophic levels in both the aquatic and terrestrial communities.…”
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Coral reef rehabilitation following Hurricane Irma using nano-engineered artificial reefs in Sint Maarten by Emily Higgins, Kyralai Duppel, Megan Connell, Guyon Brenna, Konstantin Sobolev

“…Using both bottom-up and top-down restoration processes, we suggest that deploying bio-enhancing habitats with targeted microclimate stressor treatments on the world’s critical reefs will allow to build global refuges resilient to climate change and provide much needed ecosystem services.…”
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Forest plantations with public subsidies: to harvest or not to harvest, this is the question by Olmo V, Sigura M, Alberti G

“…In the last three decades the European Union has supported the afforestation of lands previously devoted to agriculture through targeted subsidies, thus enhancing the provision of many ecosystem services (ESs). However, most of these plantations are close or even above the minimum permanence period and will be likely eradicated by landowners to restore the previous land use (i.e., croplands). …”
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Effects of burrowing crabs on coastal sediments and their functions: A systematic meta‐analysis by Shelby A. Rinehart, Jacob M. Dybiec, Janet B. Walker, Lance Simpson, Julia A. Cherry

“…Our findings suggest that crab engineering effects are predictable across environmental contexts, and understanding the context dependency of crab engineering effects may promote the management and restoration of the critical ecosystem services that are mediated by crab engineers.…”
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Willingness to Pay for Watershed Management by S. T. Abebe, A. B. Dagnew, V. G. Zeleke, G. Z. Eshetu, G. T. Cirella

“…Equitable payments for ecosystem services are emerging as a viable tool to protect and restore ecosystems. …”
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The Deep Sea and Me: Using a Science Center Exhibit to Promote Lasting Public Literacy and Elucidate Public Perception of the Deep Sea by Katherine D. Darr, Jennifer L. East, Sarah Seabrook, Steven J. Dundas, Steven J. Dundas, Andrew R. Thurber, Andrew R. Thurber

“…Using observations of visitor interactions and surveys of visitors, we evaluated three iterations of an exhibit that highlighted deep-sea ecosystem services and habitats as a case study of exhibit efficacy. …”
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Interpreting differences in access and accessibility to urban greenspace through geospatial analysis by Gang Lin, Yongze Song, Dong Xu, Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Peng Wu, Weitao Hou, Zhuoyao Xiao

“…Access to urban greenspace is a fundamental requirement in providing critical ecosystem services, improving health and well-being across all ages, fostering social cohesion, and addressing prevalent health disparities in an increasingly urbanised society. …”
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Risk assessment and reduction options for Cryphonectria parasitica in the EU by EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Michael Jeger, Claude Bragard, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz, Gianni Gilioli, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Alan MacLeod, Maria Navajas Navarro, Björn Niere, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Trond Rafoss, Gregor Urek, Ariena Van Bruggen, Wopke Van derWerf, Jonathan West, Stephan Winter, Giorgio Maresi, Simone Prospero, Anna Maria Vettraino, Irene Vloutoglou, Marco Pautasso, Vittorio Rossi

“…The estimated relative impact on ecosystem services, due to the introduction and spread in the EU of new, virulent strains, is higher for scenario A1 compared to scenarios A0 and A2. …”
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Impacts of Changing Livestock Farming Practices on the Biocultural Heritage and Landscape Configuration of Italian Anti-Apennine by Riccardo Primi, Paolo Viola, Carlo Maria Rossi, Stefano Ripert, Maria Nicolina Ripa, Raffaello Spina, Bruno Ronchi

“…This, coupled with the loss of biocultural heritage, including traditional settlements dating back to the Bronze Age and Roman times, as well as pastoral traditions and knowledge, underscores the need to rethink future development strategies with a focus on retaining younger generations and preventing the loss of crucial ecosystem services.…”
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Changes in south-Swedish vegetation composition over the last 200 years as described by species-specific indicator and trait values and documented by museum and literature records by Cassandra Hallman, Ola Olsson, Torbjörn Tyler

“…Instead, analyses of the biodiversity relevance, associated non-plant species and ecosystem services such as nectar production provided by the flora, suggest that local biodiversity is likely to have increased. …”
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Protected areas’ role in climate-change mitigation by Melillo, Jerry M., Lu, Xiaoliang, Kicklighter, David W., Reilly, John M., Cai, Yongxia, Sokolov, Andrei P.

“…Globally, 15.5 million km2 of land are currently identified as protected areas, which provide society with many ecosystem services including climate-change mitigation. …”
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The effects of demographic stochasticity and parameter uncertainty on predicting the establishment of introduced species by Palamara, Gian Marco, Carrara, Francesco, Smith, Matthew J., Petchey, Owen L.

“…Invasive species are a serious threat to biodiversity worldwide and predicting whether an introduced species will first establish and then become invasive can be useful to preserve ecosystem services. Establishment is influenced by multiple factors, such as the interactions between the introduced individuals and the resident community, and demographic and environmental stochasticity. …”
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