Voluntary incentive programs are a keystone policy tool for increasing private landowner
conservation behavior. Although landowner participation in conservation incentive programs …

Land-use intensification can importantly influence terrestrial ecosystem services by altering
plant functional traits. Although we know that functional traits influence both ecosystem …

Abstract In the upper Midwestern United States, one of the central goals of agri-
environmental policy is to reduce environmental and water quality degradation resulting …

Land-use intensification impairs multiple soil ecosystem functions and services (hereafter
'soil multifunctionality'; SMF) crucial to human wellbeing by influencing plant diversity and …

Aboveground carbon storage in forests can be influenced by both structural and
compositional diversity of plant communities. However, the relative and interactive effects of …

Livestock grazing is the major land-use regime of grasslands, and affects ecosystem
structure and functioning considerably. However, few studies have examined how grazing …

Current rural land tenure system in China, characterized by the so-called “separation of
three rights”, ie, the division and parallel of collective ownership, household contract right …

Understanding landowners' intention to voluntarily engage in conservation initiatives is
essential to designing more realistic projects and interventions. In this study, we used the …

Working landscapes can provide biodiversity and ecosystem services. Many voluntary
conservation programs ask those who manage working lands—farmers, ranchers, and forest …

Decision-making processes that private forest landowners (PFLs) engage when planning for
their forestland's future are not well understood. The forest ecosystem and the people who …