Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides an illustration of how crop protection
has (or has not) evolved over the past six decades. Throughout this period, IPM has …

Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

Context A background assumption of landscape approaches is that some landscape
patterns are more sustainable than others, and thus searching for these patterns should be a …

Ecosystem service is widely acknowledged as a mainstream and valuable concept for the
sustainability-oriented decision-makings on meeting the fundamental needs for improving …

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 …

Social–ecological networks (SENs) represent the complex relationships between ecological
and social systems and are a useful tool for analyzing and managing ecosystem services …

The Henan section of the middle and lower Yellow River (HMLYR) is a crucial economic
zone and ecological barrier in the Central Plains. Rapid urbanization in these areas has …

Rapid urbanization in China has greatly exacerbated land use transitions (LUTs), which
seriously threaten the ecosystem. The existing literature lacks information on the spatio …

Nature's contributions to human well-being within social-ecological systems have been
widely studied using multiple conceptual frameworks, yet there is a growing need to better …

Understanding the co-occurrence of multiple ecosystem services within farming systems and
how they are associated across space are relatively new topics. Quantifying ecosystem …