Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

Georgina M. Mace; Ken Norris; Alastair H. Fitter

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.006

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

Georgina M. Mace, Ken Norris, Alastair H. Fitter

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The relationship between biodiversity and the rapidly expanding research and policy field of ecosystem services is confused and is damaging efforts to create coherent policy. Using the widely accepted Convention on Biological Diversity definition of biodiversity and work for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment we show that biodiversity has key roles at all levels of the ecosystem service hierarchy: as a regulator of underpinning ecosystem processes, as a final ecosystem service and as a good that is subject to valuation, whether economic or otherwise. Ecosystem science and practice has not yet absorbed the lessons of this complex relationship, which suggests an urgent need to develop the interdisciplinary science of ecosystem management bringing together ecologists, conservation biologists, resource economists and others.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-26
Number of pages	8
Journal	Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.006
Publication status	Published - Jan 2012

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