Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation

Economic analysis for ecosystem service assessments

Integrating ecosystem services into conservation assessments: A review

Benis Egoh⁎, Mathieu Rouget, Belinda Reyers, Andrew T. Knight, Richard M. Cowling, Albert S. van Jaarsveld, Adam Welz Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa b South African National Biodiversity Institute Private Bag x101, Pretoria 0001 Natural Resources and the Environment, Council for Scientific and In...

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments.

Global environmental change affects the sustained provision of a wide set of ecosystem services. Although the delivery of ecosystem services is strongly affected by abiotic drivers and direct land use effects, it is also modulated by the functional diversity of biological communities (the value, range, and relative abundance of functional traits in a given ecosystem). The focus of this article ...

Ecosystem-service science and the way forward for conservation.

Conservation biology began life as a crisis discipline, its central tenet to understand and help reverse losses of biodiversity and habitat. Those losses continue unabated, implying that, as a discipline, we are failing in our central charge. A growing number of conservation biologists are therefore looking for a new way forward, and we believe that an increased focus on ecosystem services prov...

Mobilising knowledge for ecosystem assessments

In assessments such as the southern African Millennium Assessment or SAfMA, knowledge relevant to an issue of societal importance is collected, evaluated, organised and communicated in order to support decision-making. Formal assessments are, by nature, part of the ‘scientific’ world view. In order to retain their credibility and power, they have to conform to the norms of evidence, logical inf...