More than just fish food: ecosystem services provided by freshwater insects

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

The impact of neonicotinoids on wild bees in the UK, Germ,any and Hungary. http://www.ceh.ac.uk/ourscience/projects/impacts-neonicotinoids-honeybees. View project PhD project on "Spatial patterns of springtail communities and populations: traits, space and environment" View project Dave Goulson University of Sussex 334 PUBLICATIONS 12,303 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Simon G Potts University of Readin...

Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds.

Ecosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well-being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the communities and species that provide them. This is a vital first step towards management and maintenance of these services. In this review, we specifically address the waterbirds, which play key functional roles in many aqu...

Ecosystem services provided by bats.

Ecosystem services are the benefits obtained from the environment that increase human well-being. Economic valuation is conducted by measuring the human welfare gains or losses that result from changes in the provision of ecosystem services. Bats have long been postulated to play important roles in arthropod suppression, seed dispersal, and pollination; however, only recently have these ecosyst...

Is Supersize More than Just Too Much Food?

Diabetes and obesity are two of the most significant public health issues of our day, and both are major epidemics in the United States and abroad. These conditions are inter related; obesity has been long recognized as a common precursor to adult-onset (type 2) diabetes, although " adult-onset " is becoming an outdated term. In the United States, the prevalence of obesity among children and ad...

More than just vanilla.