Managing relationships among ecosystem service supplies and demands and manipulating
certain drivers to maintain well-balanced ecosystem service suites are key challenges for …

Geodiversity has shaped and structured the Earth's surface at all spatio-temporal scales, not
only through long-term processes but also through medium-and short-term processes …

In a world of resource constraints and value preferences, trade-offs are everywhere. For
example, plant life-history strategy (eg energy for growth or defense), ecosystem function …

Correctly identifying and understanding the drivers of ecosystem change and their impacts
on ecosystem services (ESs) could provide comprehensive supporting information for …

Plants act as ecosystem engineers playing fundamental roles in steering their surroundings,
including soil abiotic and biotic conditions, soil organisms, and the complex soil food web …

Declining ecosystem services have prompted numerous studies aiming at developing more
sustainable management practices for vegetation restoration. Advances in functional …

Understanding the mechanisms of ecosystem services trade-offs and synergies is critical for
forest management. Plant functional traits provide an approach to identify the relationships …

Societal Impact Statement With more than half of the human population living in cities, urban
parks are some of the most significant places for human–nature interactions and their …

Ecologists have worked to ascribe function to the variation found in plant populations,
communities and ecosystems across environments for at least the past century. The vast …

Protected areas are recognized as a crucial tool to mitigate ongoing trends of biodiversity
loss. The effect of different levels of protection and their subsequent conservation efficiency …