Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is
critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

The declining health of marine ecosystems around the world is evidence that current
piecemeal governance is inadequate to successfully support healthy coastal and ocean …

When studying sustainable ecotourism, the ecotourism system can be better understood as
a complex association of various elements that affects the local society and wildlife habitats …

Sediment dwelling, microscopic primary producers, that occupy sediments in the photic
zone, are commonly referred to as microphytobenthos (MPB). The MPB are essential …

Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

The effective application of biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) research to societal
needs amid the Anthropocene represents the next grand challenge for ecology. Biodiversity …

Under globally accelerating rates of ecosystem degradation, maintaining ecosystem function
is a priority to avoid loss of valuable ecosystem services. Two factors are important: changes …

Community ecotoxicology is defined as the study of the effects of contaminants on patterns
of species abundance, diversity, community composition, and species interactions. Recent …

Habitat destruction is one of the main threats to environmental integrity. Assessing the
consequences of human impacts is crucial both to predict and prevent structural and …