Gully erosion mapping susceptibility in a Mediterranean environment: A hybrid decision-making model by Sliman Hitouri, Mohajane Meriame, Ali Sk Ajim, Quevedo Renata Pacheco, Thong Nguyen-Huy, Pham Quoc Bao, Ismail ElKhrachy, Antonietta Varasano

“…Gully erosion is one of the main natural hazards, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, destroying ecosystem service and human well-being. Thus, gully erosion susceptibility maps (GESM) are urgently needed for identifying priority areas on which appropriate measurements should be considered. …”
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Biological nitrogen fixation of cool‐season legumes in agronomic systems of the Southern Great Plains by Jennifer MacMillan, Curtis B. Adams, Philip O. Hinson, Paul B. DeLaune, Nithya Rajan, Calvin Trostle

“…Abstract Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a key ecosystem service rendered by legumes, but quantitative information is lacking regarding BNF in the Texas Rolling Plains (TRP), an easterly portion of U.S. …”
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Typology of the woody plant communities of the Ethiopian Nech Sar National Park and an assessment of vegetation-environment relations and human disturbance impacts by Yonas Utaile, Kenny Helsen, Seyoum Aydagnehum, Bart Muys, Simon Shibru, Olivier Honnay

“…Background and aims – Deforestation and forest degradation have hugely affected the Southern Ethiopian Rift Valley, jeopardizing biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provisioning. Quantifying the impacts of human activities on the remaining woody plant communities and recognizing vegetation–environment relationships provide the basis for targeted conservation and rehabilitation.Material and methods – The study was performed in the Nech Sar National Park (NSNP). …”
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Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma by Frank Weiser, Anna Sauer, Daria Gettueva, Richard Field, Severin D. H. Irl, Ole Vetaas, Alessandro Chiarucci, Samuel Hoffmann, José María Fernández-Palacios, Rüdiger Otto, Anke Jentsch, Antonello Provenzale, Carl Beierkuhnlein

“…Through its dense, long needles, <i>P. canariensis</i> promotes cloud precipitation, which is an important ecosystem service for the freshwater supply of islands such as La Palma. …”
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Environmental variables and species traits as drivers of wild bee pollination in intensive agroecosystems—A metabarcoding approach by Marina Querejeta, Lorène Marchal, Paul Pfeiffer, Marilyn Roncoroni, Vincent Bretagnolle, Sabrina Gaba, Stéphane Boyer

“…Abstract Wild bees are known to be efficient pollinators of wild plants and cultivated crops and they are essential ecosystem service providers. However, wild bee populations have been suffering from significant declines in the last decades mainly due to the use of agrochemicals. …”
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Impacts of climate change on streamflow in the McKenzie Creek watershed in the Great Lakes region by Tariq A. Deen, Tariq A. Deen, M. Altaf Arain, M. Altaf Arain, Olivier Champagne, Patricia Chow-Fraser, Patricia Chow-Fraser, Dawn Martin-Hill

“…The Creek is located in the southern portion of the Grand River watershed in the Great Lakes region and is an important water and ecosystem service provider for the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, the largest (by population) Indigenous community in Canada and the fourth largest in North America.Methods: The Coupled Groundwater and Surface-Water Flow Model (GSFLOW) was used to simulate streamflow from 1951 to 2020 using observed gridded meteorological data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCANmet) and in situ data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). …”
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Strategies to optimize modeling habitat suitability of Bertholletia excelsa in the Pan‐Amazonia by Daiana C. M. Tourne, Maria V. R. Ballester, Patrick M. A. James, Lucieta G. Martorano, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Evert Thomas

“…Abstract Aim Amazon‐nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a hyperdominant and protected tree species, playing a keystone role in nutrient cycling and ecosystem service provision in Amazonia. Our main goal was to develop a robust habitat suitability model of Amazon‐nut and to identify the most important predictor variables to support conservation and tree planting decisions. …”
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Estimating Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Activities on Trophic Level of Inland Water: Analysis of Poyang Lake Basin, China, with Landsat-8 Observations by Jianzhong Li, Zhubin Zheng, Ge Liu, Na Chen, Shaohua Lei, Chao Du, Jie Xu, Yuan Li, Runfei Zhang, Chao Huang

“…Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is facing a severe challenge related to eutrophication, which seriously threatens the delivery of the ecosystem service and the safety of drinking water. To address this challenge, Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data for the Poyang Lake Basin (PLB) from May 2013 to December 2020 were used. …”
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Resilience of tropical, freshwater fish (Nematabramis everetti) populations to severe drought over a land-use gradient in Borneo by Clare L Wilkinson, Darren C J Yeo, Heok Hui Tan, Arman Hadi Fikri, Robert M Ewers

“…Despite this resilience, it is important to monitor how this widespread and abundant species, which provides an important ecosystem service to local human communities, is affected by future land-use and climate change, as logging, deforestation and conversion to plantation monocultures continue across Southeast Asia.…”
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Mapping complex coastal wetland mosaics in Gabon for informed ecosystem management: use of object‐based classification by Allison Aldous, Steve Schill, George Raber, Marie‐Claire Paiz, Emmanuel Mambela, Tariq Stévart

“…Abstract Wetlands of coastal Gabon provide many ecosystems services including flood protection, water purification and wildlife habitat. …”
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Practical Research on the Fact that Clear Waters and Lush Mountains are Invaluable Assets in the Ecological Civilization Experimental area of Guizhou Province by Li Baishan, Song Yaoshun, Yang Rui, Hong Song, Peng Jingquan, Su Ying

“…In-depth analysis of the relationship between ecological environment and economic development, to provide scientific suggestions for the solid progress.The main achievements of the research are as follows: (1) Construct the practice evaluation index system of “Two mountains” in ecological civilization pilot area in Guizhou Province, and the overall evaluation is “high” (2) the evaluation result of “Two mountains” in Bijie pilot area shows that the evaluation result of “Two mountains” practice index in Bijie pilot area increased from 0.056 in 2015 to 0.107 in 2019, the comprehensive index of ecological civilization in Bijie pilot area increased steadily, and the total value of green water and green mountains in Bijie pilot area was 4201235.478 billion yuan in 2019(3) The fitting curve of the relationship between environmental and economic benefits in Chishui River Basin in Guizhou Province shows that the ecological environment protection work in Guizhou Province effectively promotes the rapid improvement of environmental benefits and economic benefits; (4) the accounting of ecosystem service value in Chishui City shows that the total value of Chishui city in 2019 was 4, 2170.788 billion yuan; (5) Summarize the “two mountains theory” in Guizhou innovation practice experience and model, put forward “speed up the construction of green ecological system, improve environmental carrying capacity” “speed up the construction of characteristic industry system, improve urban economic strength” “speed up the construction of modern urban system, improve the urban agglomeration ability” “vigorously develop circular economy, efforts to promote production mode change” “actively guide form green low carbon consumption pattern” and so on five countermeasures.…”
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of Three <i>Pseudomonas</i> Species Isolated from the Eastern Oyster (<i>Crassostrea virginica</i>) Tissues, Mantle Fluid, and the Overlying Estuarine... by Ashish Pathak, Paul Stothard, Ashvini Chauhan

“…The eastern oysters serve as important keystone species in the United States, especially in the Gulf of Mexico estuarine waters, and at the same time, provide unparalleled economic, ecological, environmental, and cultural services. One ecosystem service that has garnered recent attention is the ability of oysters to sequester impurities and nutrients, such as nitrogen (N), from the estuarine water that feeds them, via their exceptional filtration mechanism coupled with microbially-mediated denitrification processes. …”
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Factors driving changes in water conservation function from a geospatial perspective: case study of Jilin Province by Teng Gao, Yuchen Li, Chunzi Zhao, Chunzi Zhao, Jingping Chen, Ri Jin, Weihong Zhu

“…Water conservation is one of the ecosystem service functions and is of great significance to maintaining sustainable development of water resources and ecological security. …”
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Detecting Tree Species Effects on Forest Canopy Temperatures with Thermal Remote Sensing: The Role of Spatial Resolution by Ronny Richter, Christopher Hutengs, Christian Wirth, Lutz Bannehr, Michael Vohland

“…Canopy temperatures are important for understanding tree physiology, ecology, and their cooling potential, which provides a valuable ecosystem service, especially in urban environments. Linkages between tree species composition in forest stands and air temperatures remain challenging to quantify, as the establishment and maintenance of onsite sensor networks is time-consuming and costly. …”
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The adaptive strategies of yaks to live in the Asian highlands by Xiaoping Jing, Luming Ding, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaodan Huang, Allan Degen, Ruijun Long

“…A better understanding of these strategies that yaks employ to adapt to the harsh environment could be used in improving their production, breeding and management, and gaining benefits in ecosystem service and a more resilient livelihood to climate change in the Asian highlands.…”
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Multi-temporal evaluation and optimization of ecological network in multi-mountainous city by Bin Wu, Yu Bao, Zhitai Wang, Xintong Chen, Wenfei Wei

“…In karst multi-mountainous areas, there are a large number of urban remnant mountains (URMs) in urban built-up areas, which are an important part of urban green space system and have important and unique ecosystem service functions. However, the densifying development inside the city has been leading to the reduction of the number and area of the URMs and the decrease of the connectivity of the urban green space system, resulting in the fragile urban ecological environment. …”
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Global rangeland production systems and livelihoods at threat under climate change and variability by C M Godde, R B Boone, A J Ash, K Waha, L L Sloat, P K Thornton, M Herrero

“…They provide food and support livelihoods for millions of people in addition to delivering important ecosystems services. However, rangelands are at threat from climate change, although the extent and magnitude of the potential impacts are poorly understood. …”
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A Review of Village Ecosystem Structure and Stability: Implications for the Karst Desertification Control by Li Lin, Kangning Xiong, Qi Wang, Rong Zhao, Jiayi Zhou

“…Therefore, future research should give attention to the following three aspects: strengthening the differentiation research on the spatio-temporal scale, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the influence of the Karst Desertification Control (KDC) village structure on stability; based on the mechanism of structure on function, appropriate village ecosystem structure should be established to improve ecosystem service function; based on the influence mechanism of structure on stability, the stability evaluation index system will be constructed so as to lay a solid foundation for the stability strategy of the KDC village ecosystem. …”
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Spatiotemporal differentiation and geographic detection mechanism of ecological security in Chongqing, China by Chunxia Liu, Chaoxia Wang, Yuechen Li, Yue Wang

“…The geographic detection mechanism suggests that among 17 key factors, the human disturbance index, land use degree, regional development index, biological abundance index, elasticity of the eco-environmental system, and the ecosystem service value contributed more than 50% of the spatial differentiation in ecological security. …”
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Land Resources in Organic Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century from Global to Croatian Contexts by Gabrijel Ondrasek, Jelena Horvatinec, Marina Bubalo Kovačić, Marko Reljić, Marko Vinceković, Santosha Rathod, Nirmala Bandumula, Ramesh Dharavath, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Olga Panfilova, Kodikara Arachchilage Sunanda Kodikara, Jasmina Defterdarović, Vedran Krevh, Vilim Filipović, Lana Filipović, Tajana Čop, Mario Njavro

“…By adopting OA, it is possible to improve ecosystems services, increase biodiversity, decrease environmental pollution, reduce carbon footprints and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, generating food that is free from harmful residues of agrochemicals, thereby enhancing food safety and security. …”
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