Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

TY - JOUR

T1 - Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

AU - Consortium, QUINTESSENCE

AU - Termansen, Mette

N1 - Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

PY - 2016/1/1

Y1 - 2016/1/1

N2 - The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem processes or functions only become EcoS if they are shown to have social and/or economic value. This should assure an explicit connection between the natural and social sciences, but EcoS approaches have been criticized for retaining little natural science. Preserving the natural, ecological science context within EcoS research is challenging because the multiple disciplines involved have very different traditions and vocabularies (common-language challenge) and span many organizational levels and temporal and spatial scales (scale challenge) that define the relevant interacting entities (interaction challenge). We propose a network-based approach to transcend these discipline challenges and place the natural science context at the heart of EcoS research.

AB - The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem processes or functions only become EcoS if they are shown to have social and/or economic value. This should assure an explicit connection between the natural and social sciences, but EcoS approaches have been criticized for retaining little natural science. Preserving the natural, ecological science context within EcoS research is challenging because the multiple disciplines involved have very different traditions and vocabularies (common-language challenge) and span many organizational levels and temporal and spatial scales (scale challenge) that define the relevant interacting entities (interaction challenge). We propose a network-based approach to transcend these discipline challenges and place the natural science context at the heart of EcoS research.

U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003

DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0169-5347

VL - 31

SP - 105

EP - 115

JO - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

IS - 2

ER -