Native Trees Take Over Southern Italy’s Cities in a Bold Green Experiment
A new census of 40 reforestation projects across Apulia, Italy, shows a strong regional shift toward native oak and Mediterranean ...
Tag: Ecosystem Services
Africa’s Estuaries Deliver Billions in Value but Face Mounting Threats
A new review quantifies the ecological and economic value of African estuaries, from 62 million delta residents to 22–37 billion ...
New Map of China’s Coasts Reveals Where Resilience Lives—and Fails
A new multiscale framework measures the general resilience capacity of China's coastal social-ecological systems, revealing clustered low-capacity zones nationwide and ...
AI Meets Human Expertise to Map How Mixed Forests Deliver Ecosystem Services
Researchers combined a retrieval-augmented GPT-4o agent with expert oversight to conduct a scoping review of how plant functional traits shape ...
Treating Only Part of the Herd Could Shield Dung Insects, Model Suggests
A new simulation study finds that targeted selective anthelmintic treatment of livestock preserves dung removal rates but reshapes dung-inhabiting insect ...
Heavy Pesticide Use Strips Insect Diversity but Boosts Pests in Lettuce Fields
A Chilean field study found that conventionally managed lettuce farms sprayed seven to nine times per cycle supported fewer insect ...
Hedgerows quietly orchestrate ant armies that farm the land for us
A new French study shows that hedgerows shape the species richness, functional traits, and ecosystem services of ant communities in ...
Beneath the Pavement: City Soils Hide a Startlingly Diverse Bacterial World Shaped by Construction History
A detailed survey of street tree soils in Antwerp reveals over 1,800 bacterial genera and shows that construction history, not ...
When People Leave Cities: The Hidden Ecological Costs and Surprises of Counter-Urbanisation
A new review argues that the growing movement of people from cities to the countryside reshapes ecosystems through two distinct ...
A Decade of IPBES Reveals the Science Biodiversity Action Still Lacks
Outgoing IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie identifies systems thinking, transformative change and business engagement as the scientific priorities needed to ...
Six Ways to Value Soil: Why No Single Policy Can Keep Earth’s Ground Healthy
A new framework identifies six distinct value perspectives on soil health, from farm productivity to intrinsic worth, and shows why ...
Global synthesis of 423 studies reveals biodiversity’s uneven grip on nature’s services
A landmark synthesis of 423 studies and over 200,000 data points shows that biodiversity strengthens most ecosystem functions and services ...
New Open-Access Journal PLOS Ecosystems Aims to Unite Science Against the Biodiversity Crisis
The new open-access journal PLOS Ecosystems launches with an editorial arguing that fragmented publishing has hindered the response to the ...
Biodiversity’s Financial Logic Keeps Canada’s Salmon Fisheries Stable, Study Finds
A 27-year analysis of British Columbia's commercial salmon fisheries shows that the stabilising portfolio effect of biodiversity extends from fish ...
Long-Term Crop Diversity Boosts Profit, Biodiversity, Ecosystems
In an era where agricultural sustainability is not just a preference but a necessity, groundbreaking findings illuminate a promising path ...
Reviving Urgam Valley: Sustainable Farming and Ecosystem Services
In the picturesque setting of the Central Himalayas, the Urgam Valley emerges as a living laboratory for sustainable agriculture, as ...
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