Context The karst region of southwestern China, one of the largest continuous karsts in the
world, is known for its unique landscapes and rich biodiversity. This region has suffered …

Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound
structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field …

Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that
simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing …

The ecosystem of inland river basin is of great significance to the socio-economic stability in
arid area. Therefore, to evaluate the ecosystem service values (ESVs) is necessary for …

Arthropod predators and parasitoids attack crop pests, providing a valuable ecosystem
service. The amount of noncrop habitat surrounding crop fields influences pest suppression …

The provision of ecosystem services is inherently spatial. Landscape structure affects
service provision through multiple landscape-level processes, such as fragmentation, edge …

Highlights•Biodiversity and ecosystem services are perceived differently by different
stakeholders.•Land management decisions require negotiating trade-offs among values and …

Exploring the factors influencing ecosystem services (ESs) is crucial for protecting them.
Habitat fragmentation is a critical factor that has been proved to have positive or negative …

Rapid urbanization has highlighted ecological problems in the metropolitan area, with
increasing landscape fragmentation and severe threats to ecosystem health (EH). Studying …