Agricultural practices are essential for sustaining the human population, but at the same time
they can directly disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecological risk assessment (ERA) aims to …

Ecosystem services—the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems—are essential to
human existence, but demands for services often surpass the capacity of ecosystems to …

This Special Issue focuses on the questions if and how biodiversity, ecosystem functions
and resulting services could be incorporated into the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) …

A method is proposed for assessing the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems that is
explicitly linked to multiple stakeholder values enabling multiple assessments of …

Ecosystem services are the benefits humans obtain from ecosystems. The importance of
research into ecosystem services has been widely recognized, and rapid progress is being …

Ecosystem services are defined as the outputs of ecological processes that contribute to
human welfare or have the potential to do so in the future. Those outputs include food and …

The reason for expressing ecological protection goals in terms of ecosystem services is to
make a connection between ecosystems and what people get out of them in terms of …

We analyze scientific literature that report tools to spatially model ecosystem services (ES).
In the 65 articles reviewed, the most used model starting in 2001 was SWAT and starting in …

We are living in a period of massive global change. This rate of change may be almost
without precedent in geologic history (1). Even the most remote areas of the planet are …

One of the most ambitious ecological studies of the past few decades was the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment (MA), which examined the consequences of ecosystem change for …