To address the global sustainability crises, the management of our land- and seascapes must bring together ecological knowledge with the social complexities of decision-making. Globally, the international community increasingly acknowledges the importance of ecosystem services and biodiversity through processes such as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (UN SEEA). ResNet, a strategic network funded by the Canadian funding agency NSERC, that stretches across Canada and involves more than 100 researchers, is committed to filling in the gap in data and knowledge on ecosystem services and biodiversity needed for evidence-based management of working landscapes for multiple ecosystem services, while simultaneously communicating and discussing the findings with local decision-makers. The project structure with place-based case studies and conceptually working themes brings together local realities with research frontiers. In this session, we present work in the network: on specific ecosystem services, specific case studies, or more conceptually. We illustrate how an interdisciplinary research network on ecosystem services and biodiversity can connect highly specific studies to a broader understanding of the complexity of the social-ecological system. This is important both for research and for decision-making. For research, our session sheds light onto the question of project design that allows researchers to develop specific research continuously further, while producing knowledge that can find its way into decision-making. Decision-makers need data and tools to make management decisions that promote ecosystem management for people and nature that can be sustained into the future without depletion of ecosystem services, biodiversity, or natural capital that are essential to their supply.