Consistent ecosystem service bundles emerge across global mountain, island and delta systems

M. Oliver Reader, Maarten B. Eppinga, Hugo J. de Boer, Owen L. Petchey and Maria J. Santos

Ecosystem Services, 2024, vol. 66, issue C

Abstract: Ecosystem services are often analysed individually, but are intertwined with one another and the social-ecological systems they occur in. As a response, ecosystem service bundles, i.e. co-occurring sets of ecosystem services, can be used to simplify complex relationships between nature and society, and in turn aid understanding. Typically bundles are studied on the local to regional scale, given the importance of local context to bundling, but wider scale analysis may help highlight broader ecosystem service balances for sustainable management. However, it remains uncertain if the relationships between ecosystem services are strong enough to describe coherent bundles at the global scale, and the extent to which these bundles are robust across different social-ecological systems and within different biogeographical realms.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; Bundles; Synergies and trade-offs; Social-ecological systems; Biomes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101593

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