Scale and context dependence of ecosystem service providing units

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 12, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-164

  Andersson, Erik ^a   McPhearson, Timon ^b   Kremer, Peleg ^b   Gomez Baggethun, Erik ^c,d   Haase, Dagmar ^e,f   Tuvendal, Magnus ^a   Wurster, Daniel ^g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Scale; Service providing unit; Supporting structures; Urban ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928103566     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Andersson E., Barthel S., Ahrné K. Measuring social-ecological dynamics behind the generation of ecosystem services. Ecol. Appl. 2007, 17:1267-1278.
2. Berkes F. Sacred ecology, traditional ecological knowledge and resource management 1999, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, USA.
3. Berkes F., Folke C. Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Bixler R.D., Floyd M.F. Nature is scary, disgusting, and uncomfortable. Environ. Behav. 1997, 29:443-467.
5. Black T.A., Chen W.J., Barr A.G., Arain M.A., Chen Z., Nesic Z., Hogg E.H., Neumann H.H., Yang P.C. Increased carbon sequestration by a boreal deciduous forest in years with a warm spring. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2000, 27:1271-1274.
6. Blitzer E.J., Dormann C.F., Holzschuh A., Kleind A.-M., Rand T.A., Tscharntke T. Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2012, 146:34-43.
7. Breuste J., Haase D., Elmquist T. Urban Landscapes and Ecosystem Services. Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes 2013, 83-104. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Oxford, U.K. H. Sandhu, S. Wratten, R. Cullen, R. Costanza (Eds.).
8. Burkhard B., Kroll F., Müller F., Windhorst W. Landscapes' capacities to provide ecosystem services - a concept for land-cover based assessments. Landsc. Online 2009, 15:1-22.
9. Burkhard B., Kroll F., Nedkov S., Müller F. Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets. Ecol. Indic. 2011, 21:17-29.
10. Chiesura A. The role of urban parks for the sustainable city. Landsc. Urban Plan 2004, 68:129-138.
11. Colding J. Ecological land-use complementation" for building resilience in urban ecosystems. Landsc. Urban Plan 2007, 81:46-55.
12. Daily G. Nature's Services 1997, Island Press, Washington DC, USA.
13. Daily, G.C., Matson, P.A., 2008. Ecosystem services: from theory to implementation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.. 105, 9455-9456.
14. Daily G.C., Polasky S., Goldstein J., Kareiva P.M., Mooney H.A., Pejchar L., Ricketts T.H., Salzman J., Shallenberger R. Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2009, 7:21-28.
15. De Groot R.S., Alkemade R., Braat L., Hein L., Willemen L., Burkhard B., Petrosillo I., Costanza R. Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. Ecol. Complex. 2010, 7:260-272.
16. Depietri Y., Renaud F.G., Kallis G. Heat waves and floods in urban areas: a policy-oriented review of ecosystem services. Sustain. Sci. 2011, 7:95-107.
17. Dunning J.B., Danielson B.J., Pulliman H.R. Ecological processes that affect populations in complex landscapes. Oikos 1992, 65:169-175.
18. European Commission, 2011. Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020.
19. Fisher B., Turner K., Zylstra M., Brouwer R., Groot R., de, Farber S., Ferraro P., Green R., Hadley D., Harlow J., Jefferiss P., Kirkby C., Morling P., Mowatt S., Naidoo R., Paavola J., Strassburg B., Yu D., Balmford A. Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research. Ecol. Appl. 2008, 18:2050-2067.
20. Foley J.A., DeFries R., Asner G.P., Barford C., Bonan G., Carpenter S.R., Chapin F.S., Coe M.T., Daily G.C., Gibbs H.K., Helkowski J.H., Holloway T., Howard E.A., Kucharik C.J., Monfreda C., Patz J.A., Prentice I.C., Ramankutty N., Snyder P.K. Global consequences of land use. Science 2005, 80(309):570-574.
21. Frank S., Fürst C., Koschke L., Makeschin F. A contribution towards a transfer of the ecosystem service concept to landscape planning using landscape metrics. Ecol. Indic. 2012, 21:30-38.
22. Gomez-Baggethun E.P., Gren Å., Barton D., McPhearson T., O'Farrell P., Andersson E., Hampstead Z., Kremer P. Urban Ecosystem Services. Global Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystems - Challenges and Opportunities Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - Scientific Analyses and Assessments 2013, 175-251. Springer Verlag, Dordrecht, NL. T. Elmqvist, M. Fragkias, J. Goodness, B. Güneralp, P.J. Marcotullio, R.I. McDonald, S. Parnell, M. Schewenius, M. Sendstad, K.C. Seto, C. Wilkinson (Eds.).
23. Groffman P., Baron J., Blett T., Gold A., Goodman I., Gunderson L., Levinson B., Palmer M., Paerl H., Peterson G., Poff N., Rejeski D., Reynolds J., Turner M., Weathers K., Wiens J. Ecological thresholds: The key to successful environmental management or an important concept with no practical application?. Ecosystems 2006, 9:1-13.
24. Gunderson L.H., Holling C.S. Panarchy. Understanding transformations in human and natural systems 2002.
25. Haase D., Schwarz N., Strohbach M., Kroll F., Seppelt R. Synergies, trade-offs, and losses of ecosystem services in urban regions: an integrated multiscale framework applied to the Leipzig-Halle region, Germany. Ecol. Soc. 2012, 17:22.
26. Hein L., van Koppen K., de Groot R.S., van Ierland E.C., Vankoppen K., Degroot R., Vanierland E. Spatial scales, stakeholders and the valuation of ecosystem services. Ecol. Econ. 2006, 57:209-228.
27. Holling C.S. Cross-scale morphology, geometry, and dynamics of ecosystems. Ecol. Monogr. 1992, 62:447-502.
28. Jim C.Y., Chen W.Y. Assessing the ecosystem service of air pollutant removal by urban trees in Guangzhou (China). J. Environ. Manag. 2008, 88:665-676.
29. Kabisch N., Haase D. Green justice or just green? Provision of urban green spaces in Berlin, Germany. Landsc. Urban Plan 2014, 122:129-139.
30. Keene D. Japanese aesthetics. Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader 1995, 1995:27-41. State University of New York Press, Albany.
31. Kienast F., Bolliger J., Potschin M., de Groot R.S., Verburg P.H., Heller I., Wascher D., Haines-Young R. Assessing landscape functions with broad-scale environmental data: insights gained from a prototype development for Europe. Environ. Manag. 2009, 44:1099-1120.
32. Koch E.W., Barbier E.B., Silliman B.R., Reed D.J., Perillo G.M., Hacker S.D., Granek E.F., Primavera J.H., Muthiga N., Polasky S., Halpern B.S., Kennedy C.J., Kappel C.V., Wolanski E. Non-linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2009, 7:29-37.
33. Koschke L., Fürst C., Frank S., Makeschin F. A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision to support landscape planning. Ecol. Indic. 2012, 21:54-66.
34. Kremen C. Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology?. Ecol. Lett. 2005, 8:468-479.
35. Kremen C., Williams N.M., Aizen M.A., Gemmill-Herren B., LeBuhn G., Minckley R., Packer L., Potts S.G., Roulston T., Steffan-Dewenter I., Vázquez D.P., Winfree R., Adams L., Crone E.E., Greenleaf S.S., Keitt T.H., Klein A.-M., Regetz J., Ricketts T.H. Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. Ecol. Lett. 2007, 10:299-314.
36. Kubal C., Haase D., Meyer V., Scheuer S. Integrated urban flood risk assessment - adapting a multicriteria approach to a city. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 2009, 9:1881-1895.
37. Liquete C., Zulian G., Delgado I., Stips A., Maes J. Assessment of coastal protection as an ecosystem service in Europe. Ecol. Indic. 2013, 30:205-217.
38. Liu J., Dietz T., Carpenter S.R., Alberti M., Folke C., Moran E., Pell A.N., Deadman P., Kratz T., Lubchenco J., Ostrom E., Ouyang Z., Provencher W., Redman C.L., Schneider S.H., Taylor W.W. Complexity of coupled human and natural systems. Science 2007, 317:1513-1516.
39. Lonsdorf E., Kremen C., Ricketts T., Winfree R., Williams N., Greenleaf S. Modelling pollination services across agricultural landscapes. Ann. Bot. 2009, 103:1589-1600.
40. Luck G.W., Daily G.C., Ehrlich P.R. Population diversity and ecosystem services. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2003, 18:331-336.
41. Lundberg J., Andersson E., Cleary G., Elmqvist T. Linkages beyond borders: targeting spatial processes in fragmented urban landscapes. Landsc. Ecol. 2008, 23:717-726.
42. Lundberg J., Moberg F. Mobile link organisms and ecosystem functioning: Implications for ecosystem resilience and management. Ecosystems 2003, 6:87-98.
43. Lyytimäki J., Sipilä M. Hopping on one leg - the challenge of ecosystem disservices for urban green management. Urban For. Urban Green 2009, 8:309-315.
44. Maes J., Paracchini M.L., Zulian G., Dunbar M.B., Alkemade R. Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem service supply, biodiversity, and habitat conservation status in Europe. Biol. Conserv. 2012, 155:1-12.
45. Multifunctional Land Use 2007, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin,Germany. T. Mander, H. Wiggering, K. Helming (Eds.).
46. Martín-López B., Gómez-Baggethun E., Lomas P.L., Montes C. Effects of spatial and temporal scales on cultural services valuation. J. Environ. Manag. 2009, 90:1050-1059.
47. McPhearson T., Kremer P., Hamstead Z.A. Mapping ecosystem services in New York City: Applying a social-ecological approach in urban vacant land. Ecosyst. Serv. 2013, 5:11-26.
48. Living Beyond our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-Being 2005, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press, Washington D.C., USA.
49. Milligan M.J. Interactional past and potential: the social construction of place attachment. Symb. Interact. 1998, 21:1-33.
50. Murphy H.T., Lovett-Doust J. Context and connectivity in plant metapopulations and landscape mosaics: does the matrix matter?. Oikos 2004, 105:3-14.
51. Nowak D.J., Crane D.E., Stevens J.C. Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States. Urban For. Urban Green 2006, 4:115-123.
52. Raudsepp-Hearne C., Peterson G.D., Bennett E.M. Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2010, 107:5242-5247.
53. Rosenzweig C., Solecki W.D., Cox J., Hodges S., Parshall L., Lynn B., Goldberg R., Gaffin S., Slosberg R.B., Savio P., Watson M., Dunstan F. Mitigating New York City's heat island: integrating stakeholder perspectives and scientific evaluation. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 2009, 90:1297-1312.
54. Stedman R.C. Is it really just a social construction?: the contribution of the physical environment to sense of place. Soc. Nat. Resour. 2003, 16:671-685.
55. Stephenson J. The cultural values model: an integrated approach to values in landscapes. Landsc. Urban Plan 2008, 84:127-139.
56. Syrbe R.-U., Walz U. Spatial indicators for the assessment of ecosystem services: providing, benefiting and connecting areas and landscape metrics. Ecol. Indic. 2012, 21:80-88.
57. Turner B.L., Kasperson R.E., Matson P.A., McCarthy J.J., Corell R.W., Christensen L., Eckley N., Kasperson J.X., Luers A., Martello M.L., Polsky C., Pulsipher A., Schiller A. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2003, 100:8074-8079.
58. Tyrväinen L., Pauleit S., Seeland K., Vries S. Benefits and uses of urban forests and trees. Urban Forests and Trees 2005, 81-114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg. C. Konijnendijk, K. Nilsson, T. Randrup, J. Schipperijn (Eds.).
59. UK National Ecosystem Assessment, 2011. The UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Technical Report. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.
60. Wood S.A., Guerry A.D., Silver J.M., Lacayo M. Using social media to quantify nature-based tourism and recreation. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3:2976.