Assessing the functional structure of plant communities and their productivity helps to determine the contribution of biological diversity and primary productivity to ecosystem services, the most ...

This article was originally published by the University of Reading. [1] Uddin, M., de Ruyter van Steveninck, E., Stuip, M. and Shah, M. (2013). Economic valuation of provisioning and cultural services ...

In 2019, the OECD estimated that Natural Ecosystem Services contributed $125-140 trillion of value each year, which it noted was almost one and a half times the size of global GDP. Source: World ...

These are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. These include provisioning services such as food and water; regulating services such as flood and disease control; cultural services such as ...