Sentence examples for maintaining ecosystem service from inspiring English sources

These results highlight the general principle that the likelihood of meeting the joint challenge of sufficiently increasing food production while maintaining ecosystem service and species habitat provision will increase if we allocate cropland to areas of high or increasing agricultural productivity that do not also provide high levels of ecosystem services or important habitat.

These patches were mainly scenic areas and natural reserve areas and played key role in maintaining ecosystem services and ecological stability.

Some of these options involve trade-offs between the goals of conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services, while other options address both goals in a win win scenario.

Special attention should then be directed to trees and stands with high biodiversity values, or those important for maintaining ecosystem services.

The challenge of our generation may well be to convert these values into incentives for maintaining ecosystem services, perhaps by adapting some of the lessons from the wildlife sector in southern Africa.

The authors highlight the increasing emphasis on maintaining "ecosystem services" and landscape-level processes, i.e., fully functioning ecosystems made up of interacting species, and increasingly view humans as part of the equation.

Because of its fast transformation rate, there is an enormous demand for knowledge, and its application, about the effects of land-use/land-cover on the capacity of providing or maintaining ecosystem services.

The major opportunity for both maintaining ecosystem services and biodiversity outside conservation areas lies in promoting diversity of land-use at the landscape and farm rather than field scale.

To date, China has established 11 types of PAs, whose conservation objectives vary from protecting biodiversity and geological features, preserving scenic landscapes and seascapes, to restoring and maintaining ecosystem services.

Adaptation options included shifts from mixed cropping-grazing to rangeland grazing or biomass enterprises; promoting re-assembly of native ecological communities; and maintaining ecosystem services and habitat that trees provide.

We found that the possibility of receiving protest responses related to implementing a payment for maintaining ecosystem services was higher than for biodiversity conservation and may vary according to respondents' socio-demographic characteristics, pro-environmental attitudes, and stakeholder typology.