Ecosystem service potentials, flows and demands-concepts for spatial localisation, indication and quantification

By Benjamin Burkhard, Marion Kandziora, Ying Hou, Felix Müller. 2014

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The high variety of ecosystem service categorisation systems, assessment frameworks, indicators, quantification methods and spatial localisation approaches allows scientists and decision makers to harness experience, data, methods and tools. On the other hand, this variety of concepts and disagreements among scientists hamper an integration of ecosystem services into contemporary environmental management and decision making. In this article, the current state of the art of ecosystem service science regarding spatial localisation, indication and quantification of multiple ecosystem service supply and demand is reviewed and discussed. Concepts and tables for regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem service definitions, distinguishing between ecosystem service potential supply (stocks), flows (real supply) and demands as well as related indicators for quantification are provided. Furthermore, spatial concepts of service providing units, benefitting areas, spatial relations, rivalry, spatial and temporal scales are elaborated. Finally, matrices linking CORINE land cover types to ecosystem service potentials, flows, demands and budget estimates are provided. The matrices show that ecosystem service potentials of landscapes differ from flows, especially for provisioning ecosystem services.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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2. Jan Staes
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Citations in the corpus

• ‘The Matrix Reloaded': A review of expert knowledge use for mapping ecosystem services (2015, methodology): “Expert estimation of ES supply per land use or land cover (LULC) class, aka “the matrix model” is one of the most popular ES assessment techniques today (see next section and Burkhard et al., 2009, 2012b, 2014).”
• Stocks and flows of natural and human-derived capital in ecosystem services (2016, background): “The role of human capital in the supply and delivery f ecosystem services is increasingly recognised (Tallis et al., 2012; emme et al., 2014; Burkhard et al., 2014), and within the Ecosysem Approach humans are seen as part of an interactive holistic socio-economic) system, where the welfare of…”
• Ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies misunderstood without landscape history (2016, background): “Conceptually, flows refer to ES that actually reach people, whereas the capacity of ecosystems providing such flows is a distinct entity (Burkhard et al. 2014).”