Over the past few decades, a multi-disciplinary research community has documented the goods and services provided by ecosystems in specific sites scattered across the world. This research community has now begun to focus on creating methods and tools for mapping and valuing the ecosystem services produced on any landscape in the world. We describe some of these methods and tools and how they ca...

The continuous degradation of ecosystem services is an important challenge faced by the world. Improvements in transportation infrastructure have had substantial impacts on economic development and services. Exploring influence traffic accessibility can delay or stop their deterioration; however, studies its impact are lacking. This study addresses this gap analysing using integrated spatial re...

Applying the ecosystem services concept to conservation initiatives or in managing ecosystem services requires understanding how environmental impacts affect the ecology of key species or functional groups providing the services. We examined effects of river impoundments, one of the leading threats to freshwater biodiversity, on an important ecosystem service provided by large tropical rivers (...

Qinghai Province is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and has special importance in construction ecological civilisation China, which related to security country long-term development. The land basis terrestrial ecosystem services. Land use/cover change (LUCC) can alter structure, distribution processes ecosystems, thereby affecting Ecological Function Zone (EFZ) zone designated by...

Over the last few decades, most regional ecosystem services (ESs) have significantly deteriorated, primarily driven by an increase in human dominance over natural environment. Creating assessment framework of ESs and identifying its driving factors at scale is challenging for researchers, administrators, policy-makers. In this study, we attempt to quantify economic value (ESV) Guizhou Province ...

Rapid economic development, industrialization and urbanization lead to environmental pollution damage the stability of regional ecosystems. The Yangtze River Delta region is an economically developed in China, faces problems water environment ecosystem service degradation. Reasonable assessment value (ESV) great significance for grasping status services, improving ecological environment, realiz...

Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Ecosystem services-the benefits that people derive from nature and natural capital-is a concept often used to help explain human reliance on nature and frame the decisions we make in terms of the ongoing value of nature to human wellbeing. Yet ecosystem service science has not always lived up to the promise of its potential. De...

BACKGROUND Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) is a clinically useful noninvasive imaging modality for diagnosing patients with suspected coronary artery disease. By utilizing gated MPS, the end diastolic volume (EDV) and end systolic volume (ESV) can be measured and the ejection fraction (EF) calculated, which gives incremental prognostic value compared with assessment of perfusion only. T...

Rapid urbanization, land scarcity, and accompanying ecological deterioration in China have received growing attention. In this paper, two fast-growing metropolitan regions, Greater Shanghai and Greater Hangzhou, were selected as case studies to quantify the impact of land use/land cover (LULC) change on regional ecosystem services value (ESV) at the landscape scale since the late 1970s. The res...

Human activities have had a significant impact on ecosystems. Studying landscape patterns and ecosystem services (ES) at the village scale based land use cover (LULC) is essential in addressing current issues. Based GF images, paper selects ecosystems of karst desertification control (KDC) as research object. It uses pattern index, topographic position index (TPI), value equivalent method to co...