摘要:Biodiversity, that is, plants, animals and other organisms,contribute to the provision of numerous ecosystem services, such as medicinal plants (Kala 2006; Kidegheshoand Msuya 2010), agricultural products (Tweddell et al.2006), and clean water (Adekola and Mitchell 2011).Issues 2 and 3 of volume 7 looked into the various aspectsof managing biodiversity and ecosystem services (VanOudenhoven 2011; Van Oudenhoven and de Groot 2011,respectively). In this last issue of volume 7, however,the authors provide insight into the impacts of humanpressures on biodiversity, as well as on the ways of monitoring biodiversity and promoting incentives to invest inthe protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services.