Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios by Yudan Wang, Xianfeng Liu, Jing Li, Yida Wang, Jizhou Bai, Zixiang Zhou

“…Overall, our findings provide a framework for land use optimization by incorporating ecosystem service flow, ultimately facilitating land management, ecological restoration, and soil erosion prevention.…”
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EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE OF NATIVE AND INTENSIVE SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS IN THE MEXICAN TROPICS USING THE MESMIS FRAMEWORK by Nahieli Silva - Cassani, Karen Fabiola Mancera, Jorge Canul, Luis Ramirez Aviles, Javier Solorio, Patricia Güereca, Francisco Galindo

“…Silvopastoral systems are an alternative for efficient and sustainable grazing systems to increase the provision of ecosystems services and minimize the environmental costs associated to monoculture systems (MS), but the efficiency of intensively managed (IS) and unmanaged or native (NS) silvopastoral systems has never been assessed and compared to MS. …”
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Ecological assessment of Iran’s terrestrial biomes for wildlife conservation by Amir Ansari, Mansour Ghorbanpour, Ali Kazemi, Khalil Kariman

“…To fully understand these threats, the present study was conducted to identify and map the Iran’s terrestrial biomes using the IDRISI TerrSet 18.31 Software, the Terrestrial Biomes Ecosystem Service Modeler on the InVEST toolkit (TBESMI), and comprehensive data sources including maps of roads, protected areas, terrestrial biomes, and country-wide land cover maps of 2017. …”
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Prairies Thrive Where Row Crops Drown: A Comparison of Yields in Upland and Lowland Topographies in the Upper Midwest US by Adam C. von Haden, Mathew E. Dornbush

“…Belowground biomass, a factor that is important to ecosystem service provisioning, is reduced when switchgrass is grown in saturated lowlands, but it is not known whether the same is true in species-diverse prairie. …”
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Predicting tropical dry forest successional attributes from space: is the key hidden in image texture? by J Alberto Gallardo-Cruz, Jorge A Meave, Edgar J González, Edwin E Lebrija-Trejos, Marco A Romero-Romero, Eduardo A Pérez-García, Rodrigo Gallardo-Cruz, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Carlos Martorell

“…Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem-service provision will increasingly depend on the existence of secondary vegetation. …”
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A Combined Satellite-Derived Drought Indicator to Support Humanitarian Aid Organizations by Markus Enenkel, Caroline Steiner, Thomas Mistelbauer, Wouter Dorigo, Wolfgang Wagner, Linda See, Clement Atzberger, Stefan Schneider, Edith Rogenhofer

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Plant species richness and sunlight exposure increase pollinator attraction to pollinator gardens by Travis L. Watson, Carlos Martel, Gerardo Arceo‐Gómez

“…We suggest that an integrated management approach that considers multiple garden and environmental characteristics could help improve the effectiveness of pollinator garden as a conservation tool and help preserve this key ecosystem service.…”
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Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming by Yue Liu, Ling Cao, William W L Cheung, U Rashid Sumaila

“…Marine algae, both macro and micro, have gained increasing attention for their numerous ecosystem service functions, such as food and raw materials provision and climate change mitigation. …”
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An investigation of the effects of conservation incentive programs on management of invasive species by private landowners by Michael Drescher, Graham B. Epstein, G. Keith Warriner, Rebecca C. Rooney

“…Abstract Invasive species are a large and growing threat to biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning globally as well as in southern Ontario, Canada's most biodiverse region. …”
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Above and belowground woody-biomass and carbon stock estimations at Kunzila watershed, Northwest Ethiopia by Hailu Shiferaw, Tibebu Kassawmar, Gete Zeleke

“…Woody-biomass is an important indicator for good vegetation cover, and a healthy environment that provides ecosystems services such as supplying, provisioning, regulating, esthetic, and cultural values. …”
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Finer Resolution Mapping of Marine Aquaculture Areas Using WorldView-2 Imagery and a Hierarchical Cascade Convolutional Neural Network by Yongyong Fu, Ziran Ye, Jinsong Deng, Xinyu Zheng, Yibo Huang, Wu Yang, Yaohua Wang, Ke Wang

“…Marine aquaculture plays an important role in seafood supplement, economic development, and coastal ecosystem service provision. The precise delineation of marine aquaculture areas from high spatial resolution (HSR) imagery is vital for the sustainable development and management of coastal marine resources. …”
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Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act: The Costs of Inaction from Land Conversions by Grayson L. Younts, Elena A. Mikhailova, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, Hamdi A. Zurqani, Christopher J. Post, Mark A. Schlautman, George B. Shepherd

“…This study demonstrates the rapid assessment of the value of regulating ecosystems services (ES) from soil organic carbon (SOC), soil inorganic carbon (SIC), and total soil carbon (TSC) stocks, based on the concept of the avoided social cost of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions for VT by soil order and county using remote sensing and information from the State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) and Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) databases. …”
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Quantitative assessment of the environmental risk due to climate change-driven coastline recession: A case study in Trincomalee coastal area, Sri Lanka by Seyedabdolhossein Mehvar, Ali Dastgheib, Janaka Bamunawala, Mangala Wickramanayake, Roshanka Ranasinghe

“…Keywords: Climate change, Environmental risk, Coastal erosion, Ecosystem service, Sri Lanka…”
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Assessing the Agricultural Water Savings–Economy–Ecological Environment System in an Arid Area of Northwest China Using a Water Rights Transaction Model by Tianming He, Chunxia Wang, Zonglan Wang, Xinlin He, Hongguang Liu, Jia Zhang

“…Using the water rights transaction method, this regional agricultural water saving could generate an industrial benefit equal to 35,024,300 yuan, an ecosystem service equal to 19,482,200 yuan, and an overall benefit equal to 54,420,500 yuan. …”
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Complex Ecosystem Impact of Rapid Expansion of Industrial and Mining Land on the Tibetan Plateau by Qionghuan Liu, Xiuhong Wang, Yili Zhang, Shicheng Li

“…This study highlights the rapid expansion of IML and reveals the ecosystem structure, ecosystem quality, and ecosystem service impact on the TP, which helps guide ecosystem protection and the sustainable development of mining.…”
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Water quality of streams associated with artisanal gold mining; Suárez, Department of Cauca, Colombia by José Antonio Gallo Corredor, Edier Humberto Pérez, Ricardo Figueroa, Apolinar Figueroa Casas

“…This requires strategic interventions by the communities, miners, operation owners, and control organisms as the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cauca (CRC) and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS) to minimize the negative impacts on the hydric resource and ecosystemic services associated with this resource.…”
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Status of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) in the French Creek Watershed, USA at the Onset of Invasion by Round Goby, <i>Neogobius melanostomus</i> by Kyle H. Clark, Joshua M. Wisor, Sara J. Mueller, Casey Bradshaw-Wilson, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Jay R. Stauffer

“…Freshwater mussels are an imperiled group of organisms that are vital to aquatic ecosystems. Services performed by freshwater mussels, coupled with their use for biomonitoring, make them an invaluable asset. …”
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Camel herds’ reproductive performance in Algeria: Objectives and thresholds in extreme arid conditions by Djallel Eddine Gherissi, Davide Monaco, Zoubir Bouzebda, Farida Afri Bouzebda, Semir Bechir Suheil Gaouar, Elena Ciani

“…Such negative trend could hamper the genetic improvement of autochthonous camel ecotypes and compromise the camel sector and the ecosystemic services provided by local cameleers.…”
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Integrating policy quantification analysis into ecological security pattern construction: A case study of Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area by Meng Yang, Ju He, Longyu Shi, Yingying Lv, Jingwen Li

“…The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area(GBA) was selected as the study area, the study found that: (1) The proposed framework PQA based-ESP could provide a useful eco-management tools. (2) Policy adaptability had a substantial impact on environmental security in the GBA, but the ecosystem service index has the highest impact. (3) Applying the framework, we identified a total of 1,993 km2 of ecological sources, 23 key ecological corridors, 58 general ecological corridors, and 31 ecological nodes. …”
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Mountain protective forests under threat? an in-depth review of global change impacts on their protective effect against natural hazards by Christine Moos, Ana Stritih, Michaela Teich, Alessandra Bottero, Alessandra Bottero

“…Forests in mountain areas provide an indispensable ecosystem service by protecting people and infrastructure against natural hazards. …”
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