Papers in this group
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This report provides a rationale for affording greater protection to Europe’s stock of farmland features in the future. It examines the distribution and density of features that exist across Europe’s agricultural landscapes, assesses the…
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Agri-environment programmes are a long-established part of the CAP and now a key policy tool in the delivery of EU environmental priorities on farmland. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the nature and diversity of…
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There is increasing global awareness, through studies such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (MA, 2005; TEEB, 2008, 2009), of the important benefits that ecosystem services…
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Assessments of adaptation options generally focus on incremental, homogeneous ecosystem responses to climate even though climate change impacts can be big, fast, and patchy across a region. Regional drought-induced tree die-off in semiarid woodlands…
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There is growing support for characterizing ecosystem services in order to link conservation and human well-being. However, few studies have explicitly included ecosystem services within systematic conservation planning, and those that have follow…
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Background: Conventional wisdom identifies biodiversity hotspots as priorities for conservation investment because they capture dense concentrations of species. However, density of species does not necessarily imply conservation efficiency. Here we…
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Protected areas vary enormously in their contribution to conserving biodiversity, and the inefficiency of protected area systems is widely acknowledged. However, conservation plans focus overwhelmingly on adding new sites to current protected area…
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1. Ecosystem services (ES) lie at the core of the interactions among humans and ecosystems. Fundamental understanding of the ecological mechanisms underlying the simultaneous provision of multiple ES has been lagging behind policy and management…
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The concept of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits humans derive from ecosystems, is increasingly applied to environmental conservation, human wellbeing and poverty alleviation, and to inform the development of interventions. Payments for…
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To inform the design and implementation of land-use policies that consider the variety of goods and services people derive from ecosystems, it is essential to understand spatial patterns of individual services, how multiple services relate to each…
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