Pesticide Regime Can Negate the Positive Influence of Native Vegetation Donor Habitat on Natural Enemy Abundance in Adjacent Crop Fields by Sunita Pandey, Sunita Pandey, Anne C. Johnson, Gang Xie, Geoff M. Gurr

“…The donor habitat effect of such refuges can elevate in-crop densities of these important ecosystem service providers over a scale of around 100 m, implying scope to enhance the strength of biological control in large fields (around 4 ha) by use of entirely wooded margins provided pesticide use is moderated.…”
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Upwelling increases net primary production of corals and reef-wide gross primary production along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica by Ines eStuhldreier, Ines eStuhldreier, Celeste eSánchez-Noguera, Celeste eSánchez-Noguera, Florian eRoth, Florian eRoth, Jorge eCortés, Tim eRixen, Christian eWild, Christian eWild

“…Photosynthetic production is a key ecosystem service provided by tropical coral reefs, but knowledge about the contribution of corals and other reef-associated organisms and the controlling environmental factors is scarce. …”
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Tree height and stem growth dynamics in a Scots pine dominated boreal forest by Tuomas Yrttimaa, Samuli Junttila, Ville Luoma, Jiri Pyörälä, Eetu Puttonen, Mariana Campos, Teemu Hölttä, Mikko Vastaranta

“…Tree growth is a key forest ecosystem service and essential for carbon sequestration and biomass production. …”
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Balancing urban expansion with a focus on ecological security: A case study of Zhaotong City, China by Yangyang Hu, Yu Li, Yijie Li, Jiacheng Wu, Huazhu Zheng, Hongming He

“…This study focuses on investigating the spatial characteristics of expansion, constructing an ecological security pattern based on ecosystem service functions and sensitivity, and utilizing integrated models to simulate urban expansion paths and analyze their formation mechanisms. …”
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Responses of Soil Microbial Communities in Soybean–Maize Rotation to Different Fertilization Treatments by Yunlong Wang, Liqiang Zhang, Fangang Meng, Zixi Lou, Xiaoya An, Xinbo Jiang, Hongyan Zhao, Wei Zhang

“…This study provides a theoretical basis for soil microbial diversity and ecosystem service function in long-term soybean–maize rotation.…”
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Assessment of Changes in Key Ecosystem Factors and Water Conservation with Remote Sensing in the Zoige by Peng Hou, Jun Zhai, Dian-Dian Jin, Yan Zhou, Yan Chen, Hai-Feng Gao

“…In this study, multisource satellite remote-sensing image data were used to carry out quantitative monitoring and assessment of the main ecological elements (vegetation and water), as well as the regional leading ecosystem service function in the Zoige. Combined with local ecological protection management policies and measures, we analyzed the characteristics and effectiveness of ecological protection. …”
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Effects of shrub encroachment on grassland community and soil nutrients among three typical shrubby grasslands in the alpine subhumid region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China by Shuhan Yu, Shuhan Yu, Xiaolong Liu, Xiaolong Liu, Xueling Chen, Xueling Chen, Meiling Sun, Meiling Sun, Yongqiang Cao, Yongqiang Cao, Jinjiao Hu, Lixue Yang, Lixue Yang, Jian Hu, Jian Hu

“…IntroductionThe alpine meadows are distributed widely and play a vital role in ecosystem service functions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). …”
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Construction of ecological security pattern in national land space from the perspective of the community of life in mountain, water, forest, field, lake and grass: A case study in... by Mengwen Gao, Yecui Hu, Yuping Bai

“…We extract ecological sources based on ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity. …”
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Synergistic and Antagonistic Interactions Between Varroa destructor Mites and Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Male Apis mellifera Honey Bees by Selina Bruckner, Lars Straub, Lars Straub, Peter Neumann, Peter Neumann, Geoffrey R. Williams

“…Pressures from multiple, sometimes interacting, stressors can have negative consequences to important ecosystem-service providing species like the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). …”
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Recreation and terrain effect on the spatial variation of the apparent soil electrical conductivity in an urban park by O. M. Kunakh, N. V. Yorkina, O. V. Zhukov, N. M. Turovtseva, Y. L. Bredikhina, T. A. Logvina-Byk

“…Recreation is an important cultural ecosystem service and is able to significantly affect soil heterogeneity and vegetation functioning. …”
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Looking for indicator bird species in the context of forest fragmentation and isolation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia by T.I. Simamora, S.D. Purbowo, Y. Laumonier

“…These traditional agroforestry systems have higher conservation value than industrial and smallholder monoculture plantations, however, their long-term preservation is uncertain, and monitoring programs are lacking that can contribute to long-term biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service maintenance. More data are needed to determine the viable population sizes for the bird indicator species identified in our study. …”
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Reductions in soil surface albedo as a function of biochar application rate: implications for global radiative forcing by Frank G A Verheijen, Simon Jeffery, Marijn van der Velde, Vít Penížek, Martin Beland, Ana Catarina Bastos, Jan Jacob Keizer

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Optimal utilization of low-efficiency industrial land in shrinking cities based on green infrastructure performance improvement: Take Mudanjiang as an example by LIU Yibo, ZHANG Haoping, WU Zirong, XIA Lei

“…It used the TOPSIS method for the quantitative evaluation of inefficient industrial land use, and used the ecosystem service value (ESV) correction coefficient method and Fragstats tool for the quantitative evaluation of green infrastructure performance. …”
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Could Global Intensification of Nitrogen Fertilisation Increase Immunogenic Proteins and Favour the Spread of Coeliac Pathology? by Josep Penuelas, Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Ivan A. Janssens, Philippe Ciais, Michael Obersteiner, Karel Klem, Otmar Urban, Yong-Guan Zhu, Jordi Sardans

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Tropical insectivorous birds’ predation patterns that promote forest–farmland trophic connectivity for integrated top–down pest biocontrol by Nickson Erick Otieno, Nickson Erick Otieno, Jonathan Mukasi

“…These findings show that such functional connectivity may be enhanced through increasing structural cover elements that promote insectivorous birds’ dispersal between farmland and adjacent forests to boost their pest-regulation ecosystem service contribution. The results serve to inform effective management practices by agronomists, foresters, and land-use planners toward promoting landscape-scale-integrated pest management for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation.…”
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RELEVANCE OF THE USE OF POSTMORTEM BIOMATERIAL OF DOMESTICATED YAK (BOS GRUNNIENS) TO OBTAIN STEM CELLS FROM BONE MARROW by Denis V. Dashko, Ivan I. Silkin

“…Within the strategy and action plan for the conservation of biodiversity of the Russian Federation, the ecosystem service of livestock production is significant for preserving the traditional way of life of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Far East (it has regional and local significance). …”
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Research on Sustainable Evaluation Model of Sponge City Based on Emergy Analysis by Ning Wang, Huiping Li, Jianlin Zhang, Jianxun Deng, Lin She

“…Based on the emergy analysis method, the indicators of ecosystem service, the construction cost, the runoff regulation, and the pollutant reduction of sponge city construction are thus included in the evaluation system, and the sustainable evaluation model of a sponge city is fully constructed. …”
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Research on the Game Mechanism of Cultivated Land Ecological Compensation Standards Determination: Based on the Empirical Analysis of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China by Mengba Liu, Anlu Zhang, Xiong Zhang, Yanfei Xiong

“…Therefore, by introducing a market mechanism, this study constructs a non-cooperative bargaining model and solves three stages of the game equilibrium solution under the condition of comprehensive consideration of interests of farmland ecosystem service providers and consumers. In this study, the Yangtze River Economic Belt is taken as the research area to provide empirical analysis of a cultivated land ecological game compensation standard between the subject and object of cultivated land ecological compensation in the area. …”
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Can seasonal fire management reduce the risk of carbon loss from wildfires in a protected Guinea savanna? by Joana Awuah, Stuart W. Smith, James D. M. Speed, Bente J. Graae

“…While early‐season burning regimes will have some patches that become late‐season wildfires, our results suggest on balance early‐season burning regimes are a low‐risk land management practice in reducing plant and soil carbon storage losses and sustaining a patch‐mosaicked landscape with multiple other ecosystem service benefits for savannas.…”
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Current remote sensing approaches to monitoring forest degradation in support of countries measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems for REDD+ by Anthea L. Mitchell, Ake Rosenqvist, Brice Mora

“…Ultimately we want to restore ecosystem service and function in degraded forests before the change is irreversible.…”
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