Desert areas of China have important ecological functions, so analyzing changing characteristics ecosystem service values in this region is for sustainable development. Using land use change data desert from 1978 to 2022, paper combined the equivalent factor method and actual situation study area revise value coefficients services changes after reform opening up. The results showed that up, plo...

Forest Isbell,* David Tilman, Stephen Polasky and Michel Loreau Abstract Habitat destruction is driving biodiversity loss in remaining ecosystems, and ecosystem functioning and services often directly depend on biodiversity. Thus, biodiversity loss is likely creating an ecosystem service debt: a gradual loss of biodiversity-dependent benefits that people obtain from remaining fragments of natur...

The millions of species on our planet, including humans, interact with one another in many ways. These interactions among and between species are what define ecosystems. Ecosystems, in turn, provide many environmental benefits or “services” that support human life and well-being. Ecosystem services are the transformation of a set of natural resources (for example, plants and animals, air and wa...

Based on the data land-use change in Xinjiang from 1990 to 2020, this study uses a combination of dynamics, equivalence factor method, sensitivity index, and spatial correlation quantitatively analyze temporal distribution ecosystem service values area 2020. We also use geographic probe model explore driving mechanism variation Xinjiang. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) land region 202...

Ecosystem services have been identified as a central link between society, or human systems, and the structure and function of natural systems (e.g., U.S. LTER 2007, MEA 2005). A fundamental economic problem is that while almost everyone—environmental groups, policy makers, and broad segments of the general public—seems to believe ecosystem services are valuable, the available public policy too...

Groundwater overdraft has consequences in the long-run for the economic and ecological sustainability of an agricultural landscape. In response to aquifer depletion, we examine the tradeoff of non-market ecosystem service benefits (e.g., groundwater supply, greenhouse gases, and surface water quality) and market returns from crops in the Lower Mississippi River Delta. Farmers may turn to conjun...