Landscape Online, 2021 This paper aims to map the ecosystem services (ES) provided by a reputed agropastoral ecosystem in the south of Albania and ascertain whether social capital affects the level of importance attributed to them.
Elena Kokthi +3 more
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Ecosystem services in theory and practice
, 2020 The ecosystems of the world generate processes that provide values to human well-being. Thus, these systems function as a kind of natural capital, in that they are a stock that yields a flow of services over time.
Costanza, Robert
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ANALYSING TRADE-OFFS IN MANAGEMENT DECISION- MAKING BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIONAL RESERVE [PDF]
Environment & Ecosystem Science, 2019 The Ecosystem Services concept has been developed in recent decades through both academic and international institutions. Nowadays, most of the literature agrees that ecosystem services constitute a crucial contribution to human well-being.
Diego Hopkins, Zen Makuch, Karen Makuch
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Insect Cultural Services: How Insects Have Changed Our Lives and How Can We Do Better for Them
Insects, 2021 Societies have benefited directly and indirectly from ecosystem services provided by insects for centuries (e.g., pollination by bees and waste recycling by beetles).
Natalie E. Duffus +2 more
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Recent changes in ecosystem services and human well-being in the Bangladesh coastal zone [PDF]
, 2015 This study takes an historical approach in order to establish how the form and function of the social-ecological system that represents the Bangladesh south-western coastal zone has changed over recent decades.
Dearing, John A. +7 more
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Landscape features shape people's perception of ecosystem service supply areas
, 2023 Landscapes have typically been produced by varied, diverse, and long-term interactions between people and nature. However, most landscape planning and ecosystem service mapping approaches focus on the biophysical aspects of landscapes rather the social ...
Pueyo-Ros, Josep +6 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Influence of cultural contexts on the appreciation of different cultural ecosystem services based on social network analysis [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2019 Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystem science domain has made tremendous progress in the study of ecosystem services, but debates on neglected cultural ecosystem services (CES) have persisted.
Francisca Kilonzi, Takahiro Ota
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Potential supply and actual use of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas and their surroundings [PDF]
, 2021 The potential supply of ecosystem services is often assessed using land cover data. Assessment of actual use of ecosystem services by beneficiaries remains less covered and is often assumed to be congruent with potential supply.
Steve Carver +30 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.We propose the Full‐Body AI Agent, a multi‐scale collaborative framework with 7 biological‐layer agents. It unifies multi‐omics/clinical data via standardized protocols, enabling phenotype‐guided closed‐loop reasoning, quantitative evaluation, and LLM safeguards, with promising applications in tumor metastasis modeling and precision drug development ...
Aoqi Wang +11 more
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