This #WorldWildlifeDay, the spotlight is on #medicinalandaromaticplants. These plants provide many #ecosystemservice benefits, such as #wildproduce, #healthandwellbeing and #culturalheritage. Protecting these plants protects environmental, social and economic benefits around the globe.

📄Legume cover crops don’t just protect soil. They can boost yields by 4–8%, cut fertiliser needs and strengthen biodiversity.

Read more in the @Unipisa White Paper: tinyurl.com/5b5w89xv

#VALERECO #HorizonEU #Agroecology #EcosystemService

🌿 New publication alert!

Under the exceptional analytical lead of @sandraeckert.bsky.social and grounded in fieldwork by Phetsaphone Thanasack, we mapped #ecosystemservice supply & demand across Savannakhet Province, #Laos.
A first of its kind for the region. 🧵

In the Bay Area, they increasingly live at the urban edge thanks to widespread habitat fragmentation.
#puma #mountainlion #apexpredator #ecosystemservice #wildlife

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! #Plasticpollution has negative impacts across all #ecosystemassets and #ecosystemservice benefit delivery like water, air and soil quality regulation and human health (microplastics have been found throughout our bodies, including arteries, fetuses, and organs).@unep.org

🏵️🦋 Pollination is a regulation and maintenance #ecosystemservice that is essential for #foodsecurity. @savebutterflies.bsky.social reports that HALF of UK butterfly species are in long-term decline. By letting wildflowers spring up, everyone can do their bit to protect pollinators.

#NoMowMay

Schoenoplectus californicus (Cyperaceae) amorphous silica contribution to the silicon cycle in pampean shallow lakes: an analysis of spatio-temporal variation and silicon–lignin relations Context Phytoliths constitute an important source of silicon in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják (Cyperaceae) is an important phytolith producer.Aims…

Freshwater biota rely on #silicon, often from rock weathering. But in #Argentina, the sedge Schoenoplectus californicus is providing an important #ecosystemservice as a key silicon source to freshwater ecoystems. Mara De Rito & colleagues, Uni. Nacional de Mar del Plata-CIC doi.org/10.1071/BT23...

Whale poop is so much more than waste. The results of a new study coauthored by @stanfordwoods.bsky.social Jeremy Goldbogen illustrate how whale poop stabilizes iron and reduces copper toxicity for marine wildlife – an #EcosystemService whaling has reduced by over 90%: go.nature.com/42dW2dP

Conference hall

Hi BlueSky! To all #ecosystemservice / #NCP: the #ES_Partnership (not on BS yet) is a great science-policy-practice community. Check them out @ www.es-partnership.org and have a look at the Book of Abstracts from their successful European conference last week. www.espconference.org/europe2024/home

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Dolf the Groot also presented the newly updated #EcosystemService #Valuation #Database (ESVD) by @ESPartnership @FAO @FAOclimate. You can find it here http://www.fao.org/tc/exact/b-intact/en/

Todays #keynote by Dolf de Groot (@WUR + chair @ESPartnership) at 1st #IALE Russia Int. Conference of new International Association for #LandscapeEcology Chapter on how to better base decision with #EcosystemService concept for #landscape #restoration engaging #LocalCommunities

Comparing #ecosystemservice preferences between urban and rural dwellers academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-artic...

Kenly presents world of decomposition using natural paints. Invertebrates (& microbes) at work @SouthwesternU #artscience #ecosystemservice

Paper: Bridging the gap btw #ecosystemservice assessments & land-use planning through MCDA

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Paper: Bridging the gap btw #ecosystemservice assessments & land-use planning through MCDA

goo.gl/BroIR1

scavenging birds reduce greenhouse gas emissions by carcass removal
#ecosystemservice