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... Understanding and quantifying ES flows is essential for the sustainable management of social-ecological systems, as it directly captures the human-nature interactions within the system and not solely its individual elements. Especially in degrading marine systems, most ES assessments focus solely on either biophysical or socio-economic elements of these social-ecological systems, failing to direct ...
... Despite the relevance of ecosystem services (ES) to society and modern ecological research, current methods of measurement and mapping remain inconsistent and often lack primary data in estimating and modeling ES. A key player in our understanding of ES and their measurements are plant functional traits—chemical and physical aspects of plants—which are often cited as one of the drivers of ecosyste ...
María R. Felipe-Lucia; Angela M. Guerrero; Steven M. Alexander; Jaime Ashander; Jacopo A. Baggio; Michele L. Barnes; Örjan Bodin; Aletta Bonn; Marie-Josée Fortin; Rachel S. Friedman; Jessica A. Gephart; Kate J. Helmstedt; Aislyn A. Keyes; Kailin Kroetz; François Massol; Michael J.O. Pocock; Jesse Sayles; Ross M. Thompson; Spencer A. Wood; Laura E. Dee
... Social–ecological networks (SENs) represent the complex relationships between ecological and social systems and are a useful tool for analyzing and managing ecosystem services. However, mainstreaming the application of SENs in ecosystem service research has been hindered by a lack of clarity about how to match research questions to ecosystem service conceptualizations in SEN (i.e., as nodes, links ...
... The transdisciplinarity lies at the core of the ecosystem services (ES) field and provides a unique opportunity to develop scientific foundations of the concept and foster the integration of nature's values into governance processes. The article introduces the Special Issue that focuses on research integrating ES’s biophysical, socio-cultural and economic dimensions in a transdisciplinary approach ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; forest ecosystems; governance; stakeholders; Show all 4 Subjects
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... While participatory methods are not unknown in the ecosystem services community, there is unused potential in co-creating ecosystem service governance innovation. We argue that participatory methods in ecosystem service governance can be further improved and ingrained into the way of working by incorporating insights from innovation studies. In the InnoForESt project, which revolved around innovat ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; cooling; trees; urban forestry; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Urban tree managers are challenged with sustainable ecosystem service provision in particular when urban tree populations become over mature. Therefore, managers have to quantify both future services and population stability. We exemplify an approach for estimating the tradeoff between cooling, CO₂-fixation and crown volume development, and the time until the changing tree population becomes stabl ...
Robert J. Lennox; Valerio Sbragaglia; Knut Wiik Vollset; Lene K. Sortland; Loren McClenachan; Ivan Jarić; Meaghan L. Guckian; Keno Ferter; Andy J. Danylchuk; Steven J. Cooke; Robert Arlinghaus; William M. Twardek
ecosystemservices, etc ; Internet; bycatch; fish; freshwater; humans; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Recreational fisheries are diverse in scale, scope, and participation worldwide, constituting an important ecosystem service of marine and freshwater ecosystems. Management of these socio‐ecological systems is challenged by monitoring gaps, stemming from difficulties engaging with participants, biased sampling, and insufficient resources to conduct biological or social surveys of fish and human po ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; bibliometric analysis; databases; ecology; China; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Ecological compensation is an important part of ecological civilization which has gained widespread attention in academia in recent years. This study uses the knowledge graph tool CiteSpace to identify and analyze the literature related to ecological compensation research published in academic journals in the CNKI database, in order to provide an objective and scientific reference for the research ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; ecosystems; humans; issues and policy; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The ecosystem service (ES) cascade framework describes the process by which benefits from ecosystems are delivered to human society. In the recent decade, there has been a growing body of studies on ES mapping and assessment at multiple cascade levels. However, the terms and concepts used for characterizing ES cascade components differ widely across studies. Herein we present an evidence map for t ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; credit; ecosystems; research; water; wetlands; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Many nations are taking measures to address the negative impacts of development projects in order to achieve the goal of No Net Loss (NNL) of ecosystem services. It still faces the most fundamental and critical problem— the unified accounting of ecosystem service. To address this problem, we conducted an emergy-based ecosystem service assessment to tackle the challenges and obstacles of current ac ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; land; regression analysis; sustainable development; China; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This study analyzed data from 1995, 2005, and 2015 using mathematical calculations, spatial analysis, and a geographically weighted regression model. The results showed that from 1995 to 2015, the comprehensive regional development degree (RDD) of urban agglomeration in the middle of Jilin Province increased overall, with the average RDD increasing from 0.250 in 1995 to 0.323 in 2015. Especially i ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; Japan; agricultural economics; agricultural land; farmers; Show all 5 Subjects
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... We estimate farmers’ preferences for outcome‐based (or results‐based) payment for ecosystem service scheme in Japan. To this end, we use a two‐stage stated preference approach—the first stage models farmers’ decisions to adopt outcome‐based contracts using a discrete choice experiment. The second stage estimates the areas of land which farmers who choose to participate will enrol in the scheme. Ba ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; ecosystems; lakes; models; topography; wind; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Inspiration is an essential service within cultural ecosystem services. However, there is little research on the inspirational value due to the limitations of the available data. A large number of Chinese poetries mention a variety of ecological elements that inspired poets' creativity. This collection of poetries is the embodiment of the inspirational cultural ecosystem service and provides a new ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; forests; fuel loading; global change; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Surface fuel loads are a key driver of forest fires and the target of hazard reduction burns to reduce fire risk. However, the role of biota in decomposition, or feedbacks between fire and decomposer communities are rarely considered. We review the evidence that decomposer organisms play an important role in surface fuel regulation and how this role is affected by fire. First, we outline the contr ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; Singapore; ecosystems; environmental management; socioeconomics; urban development; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Urban populations benefit greatly from the ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue spaces. While the equity of provision of and access to urban green and blue spaces has been widely explored, research on equity of ecosystem service provision is relatively scant. Using household level data, our study aims to assess the supply equity of five regulatory ecosystem services in Singapore. We ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; climate change; ecosystems; material flow analysis; metabolism; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The growing evidence-base demonstrating that cities are responsible for accelerated natural-resource erosion and the exacerbated impacts of atmospheric emissions on climate change suggest the need for more systemic resource-use mitigation strategies at the urban scale. Nowadays, ecosystem service analysis provides an extensive reservoir of techniques and strategies to optimize the metabolism of ci ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; data collection; ecosystems; sample size; social welfare; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Ecosystem services are essential for human well-being, but are currently facing many natural and anthropogenic threats. Modeling and mapping ecosystem services helps us mitigate, adapt to, and manage these pressures, but overall the field faces multiple major limitations. These include: 1) data availability, 2) understanding, estimation, and reporting of uncertainties, and 3) connecting socio-ecol ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; ecosystems; issues and policy; natural resource management; people; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Most assessments of ecosystem services to date are aggregate assessments. Despite their usefulness as a first approximation of how nature is valuable to people, they can obscure important inter- and intragenerational equity issues, which are vital in a policy context, particularly with regard to sustainability. In this conceptual paper, we aim to strengthen the position of disaggregation in ecosys ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; ecosystem management; ecosystems; evolution; supply balance; Yangtze River; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Grasping the interrelationship between the supply and demand of ecosystem services and the spatial and temporal characteristics of the spatial scale is the foundation of sustainable ecosystem management. This paper uses the Chongqing section of the Three Gorges Reservoir area as the study area, based on the three scales of county, 10-km and 1-km grids; the value equivalent method, quantification o ...
ecosystemservices, etc ; ecosystems; land cover; land use; supply balance; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The supply capacity of ecosystem services (ES) in the past decades has shown a significant decrease globally, while ES demand capacity has increased. Identifying the spatial mismatch of ES supply and demand (ES S&D) can provide valuable knowledge about where the gaps are. Existing studies, however, lack specifics about the spatial mismatch of ES S&D—that is, few studies consider the coupling and d ...