Soil health is presented as an integrative property that reflects the capacity of soil to respond
to agricultural intervention, so that it continues to support both the agricultural production …

Biodiversity and carbon (C) cycling have been the focus of much research in recent
decades, partly because both change as a result of anthropogenic activities that are likely to …

Managing ecosystems to ensure the provision of multiple ecosystem services is a key
challenge for applied ecology. Functional traits are receiving increasing attention as the …

Climate and litter quality are primary drivers of terrestrial decomposition and, based on
evidence from multisite experiments at regional and global scales, are universally factored …

Aboveground and belowground species interactions drive ecosystem properties at the local
scale, but it is unclear how these relationships scale-up to regional and global scales. Here …

Human activities are accelerating global biodiversity change and have resulted in severely
threatened ecosystem services. A large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity is harbored by …

Policy makers are increasingly recognising the role of environmental valuation to guide and
support the management and conservation of biodiversity. This paper presents a goods and …

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as
tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered …

Understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is
critical to predicting and monitoring the effects of ecosystem changes on important soil …

Natural capital and ecosystem service concepts are embodied in the ecosystems approach
to sustainable development, which is a framework being consistently adopted by decision …