Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

Highlights•We describe the IPBES Conceptual Framework.•It is a simplified model of
interactions between nature and people most relevant to IPBES's focus on sustainability.•It …

Coral reefs underpin a range of ecosystem goods and services that contribute to the well‐
being of millions of people. However, tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene are likely to be …

In the EU, the mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, abbreviated to
MAES, is seen as a key action for the advancement of biodiversity objectives, and also to …

Trait‐based approaches are increasingly being used to test mechanisms underlying species
assemblages and biotic interactions across a wide range of organisms including terrestrial …

A systematic literature review was undertaken to analyse the linkages between different
biodiversity attributes and 11 ecosystem services. The majority of relationships between …

Global food security requires increased crop productivity to meet escalating demand 1–3.
Current food production systems are heavily dependent on synthetic inputs that threaten the …

Global urbanization creates opportunities and challenges for human well-being and
transition towards sustainability. Urban areas are human-environment systems that depend …

Abstract The Ecosystem Services Journal starts in 2012 with a formidable basis in the
reports and books from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and TEEB projects …

Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental
management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few …