Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Accounting for social feasibility in landscape-scale scenarios for restoring nature beyond protected areas

The paper compares two restoration scenarios in the French Alps, showing that social feasibility and biophysical effectiveness often conflict, with spatial allocation of interventions being key to successful implementation.

Pretty Good Yields allow the spatial management of multiple objectives in agricultural landscapes

The paper shows that 'Pretty Good Yield' strategies can recover substantial biodiversity by balancing yield and conservation in agricultural landscapes through spatial management.

Identifying Ecological Restoration Priority Areas through a Function-Structure-Dynamic Framework: Integrating Ecological Security Patterns and Future Land-Use Simulation in the Anhui Section of the Yangtze River Basin

Ecosystem disservices are underrepresented in literature on annual crop agroecosystems

The paper identifies a systematic underrepresentation of ecosystem disservices in literature on annual crop agroecosystems, highlighting biases in how agroecosystem functioning is understood.

Expansion and increase of human pressures on global land ecosystems between 1990 and 2020

The paper develops a global Biodiversity Pressure Index (BPI) to assess human pressures on land ecosystems from 1990 to 2020, showing increased pressure in 96% of areas.

Exploring the value of thematic urban ecosystem accounts in Western Balkan Countries to inform urban greening actions

This study develops thematic urban ecosystem accounts for the Western Balkans to inform greening actions, revealing ecological degradation hotspots and service-delivery capacity across cities.

Do urban ecosystem service assessments account for ecosystem condition and biodiversity?

This study reviews 110 urban ecosystem service assessments to evaluate how ecosystem condition is integrated, finding widespread use of static, abiotic variables but gaps in dynamic modeling and sustainability linkages.

Cascading effects of species loss on ecosystem service provisioning in a marine food web

The paper simulates secondary extinctions in a marine food web to assess their impact on ecosystem services, finding that species interactions significantly affect service provisioning.

Socioecological network adaptability enhances ecosystem service resilience in a tropical agricultural system

The paper assesses ecosystem service resilience in a tropical agricultural system by simulating species loss and adaptive responses in a socioecological network, finding that interaction rewiring enhances resilience.

What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media

This study uses social media data and ecological niche models to map cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas and identify their drivers.

Spatial modeling of Cultural Ecosystem Services from social media data: Systematic review of operability, opportunities, limitations and ways forward

This paper reviews the use of social media data to spatially model Cultural Ecosystem Services, identifying common CES types, data sources, and modeling tools while highlighting limitations and future directions.

Finding space for rewilding: participatory scenarios reveal ecological opportunities based on plural values of nature

This paper develops a participatory scenario framework using the Nature Futures Framework to identify ecological and societal priorities for rewilding in the German Oder Delta.

Landscape structural complexity influences the global distribution of ecosystems and people

The paper maps global structural complexity measures and links them to ecosystem distribution and human presence.

An operational framework to map Essential Life Support Areas (ELSAs) for biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development

The paper introduces an operational framework for national-level spatial planning to achieve biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development goals through stakeholder collaboration and data integration.

Quantifying relative sponginess: a high-resolution model of landscape water retention as an ecosystem service

This paper develops a high-resolution model to quantify landscape sponginess, estimating water retention potential at the parcel level for land management decisions.

Sensitivities in associating land-system archetypes with sustainability metrics: Insights from simulations

This study evaluates how sensitivities in associating land-system archetypes with sustainability metrics affect decision support systems using simulated datasets.

Causal discovery in biodiversity-mediated social-ecological systems

This study develops a framework to discover causal links in social-ecological systems using literature and data, finding consistent negative links between global change and biodiversity-ecosystem function.

High versatility to meet conservation targets for biodiversity and hydrological services at the Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

This study evaluates differences between biodiversity and hydrological ecosystem service priority sites in Riviera Maya, Mexico, and finds integrating both into conservation planning is more efficient.