Land-use intensification in agrarian landscapes is seen as a key strategy to simultaneously
feed humanity and use ecosystems sustainably, but the conditions that support positive …

Soils participate in the provision of numerous ecosystem services of great importance for the
maintenance of ecosystems and human societies. Physical and chemical soils properties …

Using newly-released and globally available high-resolution remote sensing data on forest
loss, we update the assessment of the cross-country determinants of deforestation in …

The main objective of this study is to assess the economic value of the Brazilian Amazon's
ecosystem services accruing to Brazilians based on a meta-analysis of the Brazilian …

Ecosystem services (ES) are essential for sustaining human wellbeing (HWB), but empirical
studies have shown that the ES-HWB relationship can be positive, negative, or nonexistent …

Nature's contributions to people (NCP) rarely originate from nature alone. Often, only by
joining natural capital with forms of anthropogenic capital, NCP emerge benefitting people …

Assessing how much management of agricultural landscapes, in addition to protected areas,
can offset biodiversity erosion in the tropics is a central issue for conservation that still …

Abstract In the Colombian Amazon, the provision of soil-based ecosystem services is
threatened mainly by loss of plant cover. Methodologies are required that allow for a holistic …

Termite communities reflect soil conditions and the condition of the ecosystem services that
they provide. The present study first evaluated the relationship between termite communities …

Colombia's agriculture, forestry and other land use sector accounts for nearly half of its total
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The importance of smallholder deforestation is …