Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012–20

• Published in: Current opinion in environmental sustainability Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 101 - 105
• Main Authors: Larigauderie, Anne, Prieur-Richard, Anne-Hélène, Mace, Georgina M, Lonsdale, Mark, Mooney, Harold A, Brussaard, Lijbert, Cooper, David, Cramer, Wolfgang, Daszak, Peter, Díaz, Sandra, Duraiappah, Anantha, Elmqvist, Thomas, Faith, Daniel P, Jackson, Louise E, Krug, Cornelia, Leadley, Paul W, Le Prestre, Philippe, Matsuda, Hiroyuki, Palmer, Margaret, Perrings, Charles, Pulleman, Mirjam, Reyers, Belinda, Rosa, Eugene A, Scholes, Robert J, Spehn, Eva, Turner, BL, Yahara, Tetsukazu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier B.V 01.02.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: biodiversity; Bodembiologie; Bodembiologie en biologische bodemkwaliteit; Chair Soil Biology and Biological Soil Quality; ecosystem services; Environment and Society; Environmental Sciences; landscapes; Leerstoelgroep Bodembiologie en biologische Bodemkwaliteit; PE&RC; Soil Biology; Soil Biology and Biological Soil Quality

► Human well-being depends on multiple ecosystem services, many of them being underpinned by biodiversity. ► Biodiversity continues to be lost at an unprecedented rate. ► Decision-makers and policy-makers require sound scientific foundation to secure the planet's biodiversity and ecosystem serv...