Tradeoffs and synergies between ecosystem services constitute an important topic in ecosystem management. The value of each service is substantially influenced by human activities, and changes will ...

Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic material needs, health, social interaction and individual liberty. This is how the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 described it, ...

You may never have heard of ecosystem services, but you'd be hard-pressed to live without them. David Biello reports "I happen to hate the phrase ecosystem services, and my colleagues in business and ...

Ecosystems provide a wide variety of marketable goods, fish and lumber being two familiar examples. However, society is increasingly recognizing the myriad functions—the observable manifestations of ...

Free pollination services: a bee at an almond orchard in California. Randy Stiefer, CC BY-NC As a professor of ecology, I know all too well that there’s no shortage of environmental ills to keep us ...

New research published in the journal Nature Sustainability this month attempts to establish the monetary value of the ecosystem services provided by the world’s largest tropical forest, the Amazon.

Just as they do in forests and other natural ecosystems, trees deliver a variety of ecosystem services in cities. They sequester carbon and reduce air pollution and stormwater runoff, for instance.