This article was originally published by the University of Reading. [1] Uddin, M., de Ruyter van Steveninck, E., Stuip, M. and Shah, M. (2013). Economic valuation of provisioning and cultural services ...

Assessing the functional structure of plant communities and their productivity helps to determine the contribution of biological diversity and primary productivity to ecosystem services, the most ...

vices (supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural) defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA, 2005). Ecosystem services can also be classified according to their spatial ...

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

In 2019, the OECD estimated that Natural Ecosystem Services contributed $125-140 trillion of value each year, which it noted was almost one and a half times the size of global GDP. Source: World ...