VGI QUALITY CONTROL by C. C. Fonte, L. Bastin, G. Foody, T. Kellenberger, N. Kerle, P. Mooney, A.-M. Olteanu-Raimond, L. See

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The importance of the traditional milpa in food security and nutritional self-sufficiency in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. by Ivan P Novotny, Pablo Tittonell, Mariela H Fuentes-Ponce, Santiago López-Ridaura, Walter A H Rossing

“…Enhancing nutritional self-sufficiency through crop diversification has the potential to not only improve the nutrition of subsistence farmers, but also to enhance ecosystem service provision, promote biodiversity conservation and restoration, and improve resilience to climate change.…”
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Evaluation of common methods for sampling invertebrate pollinator assemblages: net sampling out-perform pan traps. by Tony J Popic, Yvonne C Davila, Glenda M Wardle

“…As pan traps and net sampling methods are not equivalent for sampling invertebrate-flower interactions, we recommend net sampling of invertebrate pollinator assemblages, especially if datasets are intended to document declines in pollination and guide measures to retain this important ecosystem service.…”
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Creating a shared narrative: the use of causal layered analysis to explore value co-creation in a novel service ecosystem by Sanna Ketonen-Oksi

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Impairment of the bacterial biofilm stability by triclosan. by Helen V Lubarsky, Sabine U Gerbersdorf, Cédric Hubas, Sebastian Behrens, Francesco Ricciardi, David M Paterson

“…The present paper focuses on bacterial biofilms addressing the possible chemical impairment of their functionality, while also examining their substratum stabilization potential as one example of an important ecosystem service. The development of a bacterial assemblage of natural composition--isolated from sediments of the Eden Estuary (Scotland, UK)--on non-cohesive glass beads (<63 µm) and exposed to a range of triclosan concentrations (control, 2-100 µg L(-1)) was monitored over time by Magnetic Particle Induction (MagPI). …”
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Climate Change Mitigation in Forestry: Paying for Carbon Stock or for Sequestration? by Álvaro Enríquez-de-Salamanca

“…Sequestration and stock are closely related, but ecosystem service valuation often focuses on the former, which can discourage forest maintenance. …”
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Low concentrations of acetamiprid, deltamethrin, and sulfoxaflor, three commonly used insecticides, adversely affect ant queen survival and egg laying by Jakub Svoboda, Pavel Pech, Petr Heneberg

“…Abstract Ants are key ecosystem service providers and can serve as important biological control agents in pest management. …”
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Ground beetles in Mediterranean olive agroecosystems: Their significance and functional role as bioindicators (Coleoptera, Carabidae). by Roberto Pizzolotto, Antonio Mazzei, Teresa Bonacci, Stefano Scalercio, Nino Iannotta, Pietro Brandmayr

“…Our study suggests that the interaction of man-induced trasformation with the natural background of the olive agroecosystem may be difficult to disentangle, so that such complexity must be taken into account when carabid beetles are expected to provide an ecosystem service for good agricultural practices.…”
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Characterizing, mapping and valuing the demand for forest recreation using crowdsourced social media data. by Federico Lingua, Nicholas C Coops, Valentine Lafond, Christopher Gaston, Verena C Griess

“…Moreover, a crowdsourced travel cost approach allowed us to value the recreational ecosystem service in five forested provincial parks ranging from ~2.9 to ~35.0 million CAN$/year. …”
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HeProMo: A decision support tool to estimate wood harvesting productivities. by Stefan Holm, Fritz Frutig, Renato Lemm, Oliver Thees, Janine Schweier

“…In the field of forestry, one of the most economically important ecosystem service is the provision of timber. The need to calculate the economic effects of forest management in the short, medium, and long term is increasing. …”
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Private protected areas in Australia: current status and future directions by James A. Fitzsimons

“…However, there are a number of key policy challenges that need to be addressed if private protected areas are to achieve their full potential in Australia, including managing broad-scale ecosystem processes, protection and tenure reform, improved financial incentives, and access to emerging ecosystem service markets.…”
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Resilient networks of ant-plant mutualists in Amazonian forest fragments. by Heather A Passmore, Emilio M Bruna, Sylvia M Heredia, Heraldo L Vasconcelos

“…Proactive identification of key mutualist partners may be necessary to focus conservation efforts on the interactions that insure the integrity of network structure and the ecosystems services networks provide.…”
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Transport and sustainability : developmental pathways by Hickman, R

“…</p> <p>This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. …”

The Effect of Monsoon Rainfall Patterns on Epilithic Diatom Communities in the Hantangang River, Korea by In-Hwan Cho, Ha-Kyung Kim, Min-Hyuk Lee, Yong-Jae Kim, Hyuk Lee, Baik-Ho Kim

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Effect of stacked insecticidal Cry proteins from maize pollen on nurse bees (Apis mellifera carnica) and their gut bacteria. by Harmen P Hendriksma, Meike Küting, Stephan Härtel, Astrid Näther, Anja B Dohrmann, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Christoph C Tebbe

“…Honey bee pollination is a key ecosystem service to nature and agriculture. However, biosafety research on genetically modified crops rarely considers effects on nurse bees from intact colonies, even though they receive and primarily process the largest amount of pollen. …”
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Frequency of chimerism in populations of the kelp Lessonia spicata in central Chile. by Alejandra V González, Bernabé Santelices

“…In the light of this, future studies should evaluate the significance of chimeric holdfasts in their ability to increase kelps resilience, improve restoration and ecosystem service.…”
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The Effects of Non-Indigenous Macrophytes on Native Biodiversity: Case Studies from Sicily by Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Renato Chemello, Anna Maria Mannino

“…Non-indigenous species (NIS) may in time become invasive (invasive alien species (IAS)), determining significant environmental, socioeconomic and human health impacts such as biodiversity loss and ecosystem service degradation. The Mediterranean islands, particularly Sicily and the circum-Sicilian islands (northwestern Mediterranean Sea), which are important hotspots of biodiversity, are notably vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures such as biological invasions. …”
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Biomass Increases Go under Cover: Woody Vegetation Dynamics in South African Rangelands. by Penelope J Mograbi, Barend F N Erasmus, E T F Witkowski, Gregory P Asner, Konrad J Wessels, Renaud Mathieu, David E Knapp, Roberta E Martin, Russell Main

“…This research demonstrates that intensive harvesting can, paradoxically, increase biomass and this has implications for the sustainability of ecosystem service provision. The structural implications of biomass increases in communal rangelands could be misinterpreted as woodland recovery in the absence of three-dimensional, subcanopy information.…”
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat quality in response to socioeconomic and landscape patterns in the context of urbanization: A case in Zhengzhou City, China by Mengqi Zhao, Yuan Tian, Nalin Dong, Yongge Hu, Guohang Tian, Yakai Lei

“…This phenomenon is destroying the balance of ecosystems, triggering the reduction of biodiversity and the decay of ecosystem service functions. The study of the relationship between urbanization and HQ in Zhengzhou City is beneficial for the reference of sustainable urban ecological planning and management. …”
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Sparrow Preferences for Winter Cover Crops in California's Central Coast by Eric B. Brennan

“…It also provides evidence of ecosystems services that these sparrows provide by feeding on weed tissue in winter cover crops.…”
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