Distribution and diversity of entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) in a South African nature reserve by Isiah Nthenga, Rinus Knoetze, Antoinette P. Malan

“…They deliver an important ecosystem service through preventing natural flares in insect reproduction by means of utilising the soil stages of insects as a food source and by acting as natural biocontrol agents. …”
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Study of spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of habitat quality in the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains: a case study of Xi’an, China by Ling Ma, Ling Ma, Chuanming Wang, Chuanming Wang, Liyang Wang, Shumeng Jin, Xiaomei Kou

“…As earth surface human activities become more frequent, global ecosystem service functions and especially biodiversity maintenance functions are challenged. …”
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The Delineation and Ecological Connectivity of the Three Parallel Rivers Natural World Heritage Site by Hui Li, Wanqi Guo, Yan Liu, Qiman Zhang, Qing Xu, Shuntao Wang, Xue Huang, Kexin Xu, Junzhi Wang, Yilin Huang, Wei Gao

“…In this study, the landscape pattern index and ecosystem service values were used to evaluate the ecological functional resistance of each landscape type, taking the Three Parallel Rivers Natural World Heritage Site as an example and the habitat distribution and population size of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey as a reference. …”
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Additive Allometric Equations to Improve Aboveground Biomass Estimation for Mongolian Pine Plantations in Mu Us Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia, China by Bilige Siqing, Shengwang Meng, Liping Liu, Guang Zhou, Jian Yu, Zhenzhao Xu, Qijing Liu

“…Afforestation is conducive to improving ecosystem service functions and ecosystem diversity in the Mu Us Sandy Land, however, the important attribute of biomass for Mongolian pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris</i> var. …”
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Global MODIS Fraction of Green Vegetation Cover for Monitoring Abrupt and Gradual Vegetation Changes by Federico Filipponi, Emiliana Valentini, Alessandra Nguyen Xuan, Carlos A. Guerra, Florian Wolf, Martin Andrzejak, Andrea Taramelli

“…The fraction of green vegetation cover (FCover) as estimated from satellite observations has already been demonstrated to be an extraordinarily useful product for understanding vegetation cover changes, for supporting ecosystem service assessments over areas with variable extents and for processes spanning a variable period of time (abrupt events or long-term processes). …”
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Degraded land rehabilitation through agroforestry in India: Achievements, current understanding, and future prospectives by Dinesh Jinger, Rajesh Kaushal, Raj Kumar, Venkatesh Paramesh, Archana Verma, Monika Shukla, Sangram Bhanudas Chavan, Vijaysinha Kakade, Sneha Dobhal, Appanderanda Ramani Uthappa, Trisha Roy, Vibha Singhal, Madhu Madegowda, Dinesh Kumar, Poonam Khatri, Dhakshanamoorthy Dinesh, Gaurav Singh, Ashok Kumar Singh, Arun Jyoti Nath, Neeshu Joshi, Ekta Joshi, Sanju Kumawat

“…This review’s findings will benefit researchers, land managers, and decision-makers in understanding the role of agroforestry in combating land degradation to enhance ecosystem service in India and planning suitable policies for eradicating the problem effectively.…”
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Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO) by Toke Høye, Tom August, Mario V Balzan, Koos Biesmeijer, Pierre Bonnet, Tom Breeze, Christophe Dominik, France Gerard, Alexis Joly, Vincent Kalkman, W. Daniel Kissling, Teodor Metodiev, Jesper Moeslund, Simon Potts, David Roy, Oliver Schweiger, Deepa Senapathi, Josef Settele, Pavel Stoev, Dan Stowell

“…EU policies, such as the EU biodiversity strategy 2030 and the Birds and Habitats Directives, demand unbiased, integrated and regularly updated biodiversity and ecosystem service data. However, efforts to monitor wildlife and other species groups are spatially and temporally fragmented, taxonomically biased, and lack integration in Europe. …”
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How do construct a sponge city that can improve residents' satisfaction? Evidence from a suburb of Huizhou City, China by Meng Yang, Dingkai Chen, Longyu Shi, Ju He, Lingyu Liu, Xiaoqi Shang

“…The control space suitable for sponge city construction was identified, using the Eco-Importance-Resident Satisfaction Analysis (EIRSA) methodology, and the relationship between the basic needs of suburban residents and the current ecosystem service capacity was explored. The Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method was used to optimize the design of the identified control space. …”
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Application and exploration of artificial intelligence technology in urban ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: A scoping review by Daixin Dai, Mingyang Bo, Xiaosong Ren, Kaiyu Dai

“…Finally, we summarized 4 approaches to integrating ecosystems with traditional Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) using AI technology: ecosystem service, ecosystem indicators, dynamic change prediction, and green infrastructure (GI) construction. …”
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Moth bean and tepary bean as green nitrogen sources in intensive winter wheat cropping systems by Hardeep Singh, Brian K. Northup, Prasanna H. Gowda, Peter Omara, Gurjinder S. Baath, P.V. Vara Prasad

“…Use of cover crops have been suggested to increase agricultural sustainability by providing multiple ecosystems services. Replacing summer fallow with drought tolerant legumes could serve both as a cover and a green source of N for winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and help mitigate economic and environmental problems by increasing resilience of agroecosystems in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). …”
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Impact of current and future land use change on biodiversity in Nanliu River Basin, Beibu Gulf of South China by Yongwei Yang, Yichao Tian, Qiang Zhang, Jin Tao, Youju Huang, Chaopan Gao, Jingzhi Lin, Donghua Wang

“…The Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Service and Tradeoff (InVEST) model was used to evaluate the biodiversity of different scenarios in the past and future and discuss the habitat quality and degradation degree of biodiversity in the watershed. …”
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Ecosystem goods and services from Manila clam culture in Puget Sound: a modelling analysis by C Saurel, JG Ferreira, D Cheney, A Suhrbier, B Dewey, J Davis, J Cordell

“…A scaling exercise to the whole of Puget Sound is in reasonable agreement with declared production (difference of 16%), and suggests that clams provide a significant ecosystem service, of the order of 90000 PEQ per year.…”
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The fear diet: Risk, refuge, and biological control by omnivorous weed seed predators by Ivy V. Widick, Jacob L. Berl, Ian Kaplan, Patrick A. Zollner, Carmen K. Blubaugh

“…Weed seed biocontrol by omnivorous mice and insects can limit weed seedbanks, but this ecosystem service can be difficult to predict given the broad diet breadth of seed predators and their potential for intraguild predation. …”
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Heterogeneity-Based Management Restores Diversity and Alters Vegetation Structure without Decreasing Invasive Grasses in Working Mixed-Grass Prairie by Cameron Duquette, Devan Allen McGranahan, Megan Wanchuk, Torre Hovick, Ryan Limb, Kevin Sedivec

“…Management can be costly, and the successful eradication of undesirable species does not guarantee the restoration of ecosystem service delivery. An alternative to the eradication of invasive species in rangelands is to target the restoration of diversity and heterogeneous plant structure, which have direct links to ecosystem function. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Variability of Future Rainfall Erosivity and Its Impact on Soil Loss Risk in Kenya by George Watene, Lijun Yu, Yueping Nie, Zongke Zhang, Yves Hategekimana, Felix Mutua, Victor Ongoma, Brian Ayugi

“…As a first countrywide future soil erosion study, this assessment provides a useful reference for preventing water erosion and improving ecosystem service security.…”
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Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Key Areas of Territorial Ecological Restoration in Resource-Exhausted Cities: A Case Study of Jiawang District, China by Fengyu Wang, Shuai Tong, Yun Chu, Tianlong Liu, Xiang Ji

“…This study selected Jiawang District, a typical resource-exhausted city, and constructed an ecological security evaluation framework to determine the ecological source area from the three aspects of ecosystem service importance, ecological sensitivity, and landscape stability. …”
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Quantifying past, current, and future forest carbon stocks within agroforestry systems in central Alberta, Canada by Zhengfeng An, Edward W. Bork, Xinyi Duan, Cole D. Gross, Cameron N. Carlyle, Scott X. Chang

“…The development of policies that assist or reward landowners for providing the ecosystem service of C storage by retaining, establishing, and enhancing agroforests as part of existing agroecosystem management should be encouraged for mitigating climate change.…”
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Ecological Security Assessment Based on the “Importance–Sensitivity–Connectivity” Index and Pattern Construction: A Case Study of Xiliu Ditch in the Yellow River Basin, China... by Xinlei Xu, Siyuan Wang, Gege Yan, Xinyi He

“…In this study, a comprehensive ecological security assessment system was constructed by selecting ecosystem service importance, ecological sensitivity, and landscape connectivity to assess the ecological security of Xiliu Ditch, an ecologically fragile region of the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River Basin in China. …”
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Effects of Two Management Practices on Monthly Litterfall in a Cypress Plantation by Yulian Yang, Honglin Yang, Qiang Wang, Qing Dong, Jiaping Yang, Lijun Wu, Chengming You, Jinyao Hu, Qinggui Wu

“…Optimizing stand structure can enhance plantation forest ecosystem service functions by regulating litterfall patterns; however, the effects of close-to-nature management on litterfall production remain unclear. …”
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Evaluating the long-term effects of near-natural restoration on post-fire forest dynamics in a wildland-urban interface landscape by Yang Lin, Lei Fang, Wangming Zhou, Zeyu Qiao, Yu Chang, Xinran Yu, Yuanyuan Li, Ping Ren, Jiangtao Xiao

“…Restoring the post-fire Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) forest landscape is of utmost importance in order to maintain ecosystem service provision. The near-natural restoration strategy is widely employed in vegetation restoration as it enables the formation of healthy, stable, and diverse artificial mixed forests that resemble natural forests. …”
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