Abstract During the symposium" Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Scale" from the EU-
IALE conference 2009, several challenges for future research on approaches to use the …

The article introduces a conceptual approach for how to enhance the assessment of
ecosystem services with regard to landscape structural aspects. Therefore, we have …

Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are
the benefits humans obtain from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to …

The awareness that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide benefits to human society,
which are of great economic, ecological and socio-cultural value, can be dated back to the …

The concept of ecosystem services is an approach widely discussed to clarify and to assess
the dependence of human society on ecosystems and landscapes. In order to better …

There is currently, widespread interest in the assessment of ecosystem services, and the
new insights that the concept provides in understanding the ecology of landscapes and the …

Despite the growing body of literature on ecosystem services, still many challenges remain
to structurally integrate ecosystem services in landscape planning, management and …

The concept of ecosystem services from landscapes is rapidly gaining momentum as a
language to communicate values and benefits to scientists and lay alike. Landscape …

The contribution of ecosystems to human well-being has been widely recognised. Taking
into account existing trade-offs between ecosystem services (ES) at the farm scale and the …

The article presents a multicriteria assessment framework for the qualitative estimation of
regional potentials to provide ecosystem services as a prerequisite to support regional …