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Along the whole history, the human civilizations were depended mainly on the soil fertility and further on the ecosystem well function and its appropriate characteristics. These functions (as natural processes occurring in ecosystems) depend on its structure (on biotic and abiotic constituents respectively) and provide ecosystem services. The paper emphasized the way that one of the ecosystem services, essential to our health and well being, as the ?regulation of the nutrients and their uptake? arises from the int...

Urban ecosystems function and maintenance are closely connected to the humans being, their interests and activities. As a result in many cases are observed serious anthropogenic works, causing a significant impact on the natural processes and conditions. Consequently urban ecosystem services become more specific, requiring more individual approaches for the related processes clarification and assessments. The understanding of such implementation recently is under a broad extension. Practices in the area widely inc...

This paper presents the works on applying the recommendations of European Commission to Member States by the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services (MAES) framework to the Romanian peculiarities of wetlands ecosystems, at local level. The MAES framework, published in several guides by MAES working group, recommends for the Member States the methodology for the fulfillment of the Action 5 from the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy 2020 which is to assess in the first phase the ecosystems condition and th...

Eco-system services, particularly agricultural eco-system services as landscape functions are defined as goods and services provided that contribute to human well-being. The aim of the study is to evaluate the capability of sustainable providing agricultural eco-services - landscapes as base of innovative activities in the rural areas. The following aspects as the tasks have been covered in the study: to evaluate sustainability aspects of Latvian agricultural landscapes, as agricultural eco-system services; to inv...