The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are
especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area …

Although a number of comprehensive reviews have examined global ecosystem services
(ES), few have focused on studies that assess urban ecosystem services (UES). Given that …

Abstract Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystem service science has made
much progress in framing core concepts and approaches, but there is still debate around the …

Ecosystem service research covers a challenging socio-ecological complexity and
simultaneously copes with a high policy demand for decision support in sustainable …

The paper gives an overview on the trends in the usage of landscape metrics as indicators
for: land use changes, habitat functions (biodiversity, habitats), landscape regulating …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

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

Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Mapping, modeling, and valuing urban ecosystem services are important for integrating the
ecosystem services concept in urban planning and decision-making. However, decision …

Historically, the cognition and management of cultivated land quality (CLQ) have been
fragmented, leading to an inability to meet contemporary scenarios and requirements of …