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DOI | 10.1111/ele.12790 |
To what extent can ecosystem services motivate protecting biodiversity? | |
Dee L.E.; De Lara M.; Costello C.; Gaines S.D. | |
发表日期 | 2017 |
ISSN | 1461-023X |
EISSN | 1461-0248 |
卷号 | 20期号:8 |
英文摘要 | Society increasingly focuses on managing nature for the services it provides people rather than for the existence of particular species. How much biodiversity protection would result from this modified focus? Although biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services, the details of which species are critical, and whether they will go functionally extinct in the future, are fraught with uncertainty. Explicitly considering this uncertainty, we develop an analytical framework to determine how much biodiversity protection would arise solely from optimising net value from an ecosystem service. Using stochastic dynamic programming, we find that protecting a threshold number of species is optimal, and uncertainty surrounding how biodiversity produces services makes it optimal to protect more species than are presumed critical. We define conditions under which the economically optimal protection strategy is to protect all species, no species, and cases in between. We show how the optimal number of species to protect depends upon different relationships between species and services, including considering multiple services. Our analysis provides simple criteria to evaluate when managing for particular ecosystem services could warrant protecting all species, given uncertainty. Evaluating this criterion with empirical estimates from different ecosystems suggests that optimising some services will be more likely to protect most species than others. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS |
英文关键词 | Biodiversity conservation; biodiversity-ecosystem services; conservation decisions; ecosystem services; stochastic optimal control; uncertainty |
学科领域 | analytical framework; biodiversity; conservation planning; decision making; ecosystem management; ecosystem service; empirical analysis; optimization; stochasticity; threshold; uncertainty analysis; biodiversity; ecosystem; environmental protection; uncertainty; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Uncertainty |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | analytical framework; biodiversity; conservation planning; decision making; ecosystem management; ecosystem service; empirical analysis; optimization; stochasticity; threshold; uncertainty analysis; biodiversity; ecosystem; environmental protection; uncertainty; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Uncertainty |
来源期刊 | Ecology Letters |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118355 |
作者单位 | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2400 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States; Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States; École des Ponts ParisTech, Université Paris-Est, Cermics. 6 et 8 avenue Blaise Pascal, Marne la Vallée Cedex 2, 77455, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dee L.E.,De Lara M.,Costello C.,et al. To what extent can ecosystem services motivate protecting biodiversity?[J],2017,20(8). |
APA | Dee L.E.,De Lara M.,Costello C.,&Gaines S.D..(2017).To what extent can ecosystem services motivate protecting biodiversity?.Ecology Letters,20(8). |
MLA | Dee L.E.,et al."To what extent can ecosystem services motivate protecting biodiversity?".Ecology Letters 20.8(2017). |
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