Freshwater biodiversity, from fish to frogs and microbes to macrophytes, provides a vast
array of services to people. Mounting concerns focus on the accelerating pace of biodiversity …

Meandering rivers are complex systems that support high rates of biodiversity and the
livelihoods of millions of inhabitants through their ecological services. Meandering rivers are …

The proactive sustainable management of scarce water across vulnerable agricultural areas
of South Europe is a timely issue of major importance, especially under the recent …

The blue landscape (BL), which refers to the wetlands, rivers, lakes, and other bodies of
water, is of immense importance for a sustainable environment. It provides a variety of …

Plant communities that occur along water corridors are termed riparian vegetation. Although
relatively narrow and long, riparian zones do provide an extensive spatially linear network of …

Complex agricultural problems concern many countries, as a result of competing economic
and environmental objectives. In this work we model three common agricultural problems …

Ecosystem services (ES) are directly affected by land use and land cover changes (LUCC);
however, the impacts of extended period LUCC on ES are poorly explored. Here, we …

Habitat quality and ecosystem service value (ESV) are important foundations for sustainable
development. Baoding, as the strategic hinterland of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, is of great …

Non‐perennial streams have a global prevalence, but quantitative knowledge of the
temporal dynamics of their flowing length—namely the extent of the wet portion of the stream …

How people value rivers, wetlands and floodplains influences their attitudes, beliefs and
behaviours towards these ecosystems, and can shape policy and management …