Jeffrey R. Smith

TL;DR: It is shown how ecosystem service assessments can be expanded to include mental health, and a heuristic, conceptual model for doing so is provided.

TL;DR: This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate, and the globalNumber of trees has fallen by approximately 46% since the start of human civilization.

TL;DR: This work builds on theoretical advances in plant and animal ecology to provide an empirical framework for a trait-based approach in fungal community ecology, and concludes that it can ultimately link communities with ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify five key elements of ecosystem service research that help inform decisions by connecting the supply of ES to those who benefit from them, and suggest that increasing the decision relevance of ES research requires more effectively predicting the impacts of specific decisions on the value and distribution of ES across beneficiary groups.

TL;DR: It is concluded that ecoregion-based conservation planning can guide investments that simultaneously protect species-, community- and ecosystem-level biodiversity, key for securing Earth’s life support systems into the future.