The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services

Abstract Conservation biology emerged as a crisis discipline in the twentieth century amongst an increasing awareness of pollution and habitat loss. Since early 2000s, societal monetary benefits nature were added to narrative for biodiversity conservation. Using text mining, we show that authors now favour ecosystem-services over framing scientific publications on coastal habitats. This may signal shift conservation science from services despite continuing We discuss whether should more critically assess what they deploy consequences this have action.