The application of a functional trait‐based approach to ecological restoration is receiving
growing attention worldwide, but lack of knowledge on functional traits and how they link to …

Since 2008/2009, conservation agriculture (CA) cropland area has been expanding globally
at an annual rate of more than 10 M ha per year. In 2015/2016, the total CA cropland area …

Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

The human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it
rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system …

Wetlands cover at least 6% of the Earth's surface. They play a key role in hydrological and
biogeochemical cycles, harbour a large part of the world's biodiversity, and provide multiple …

This paper presents global research trends involving highly cited articles on ecosystem
services from 1981 to 2017 based on a bibliometric analysis of such articles from the SCI-E …

Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

Background Land use/land cover (LU/LC) change is the challenging and continuous drivers
of environment change. Understanding the rate and process of change is, therefore, basic …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

We present a new map depicting the first global biogeographic regionalization of Earth's
freshwater systems. This map of freshwater ecoregions is based on the distributions and …