Eva Spehn

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of current knowledge and knowledge gaps on mountain biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being under global change and argue that our ability to understand, predict, and sustainably manage mountain biodiversity and to support human wellbeing requires concerted research efforts in natural and social sciences and comparative analyses of biological and social-ecological systems within and across mountain ranges.

TL;DR: Experimental additions of a generalist insect herbivore and a plant hemiparasitic species showed that some polyphagous groups within higher trophic levels can benefit from increased diversity not only from the higher quantity, but also by the higher variety of resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to assess and compare the contents of 631 abstracts on the interactions among biodiversity, ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and drivers of change, and formulated a set of research recommendations.

TL;DR: This understanding will be useful to develop inter-and transdisciplinary solutions for human–environmental problems by embracing richer collaborative decision processes and building bridges across different perspectives and focusing on social equity, power relationships for effective application of the natural assets approach.