Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales
Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales
Context: biodiversity loss is predicted to have significant impacts on ecosystem services based on previous ecological work at small spatial and temporal scales. However, scaling up understanding of biodiversity-ecosystem service (BES) relationships to broader scales is difficult since ecosystem services emerge from complex interactions between ecosystems, people, and technology.
Objectives: in order to inform and direct future BES research, identify and categorise the ecological and social-ecological drivers operating at different spatial scales that could strengthen or weaken BES relationships.
Methods: we developed a conceptual framework to understand the potential drivers across spatial scales that could affect BES relationships and then categorized these drivers to synthesize the current state of knowledge.
Results: our conceptual framework identifies ecological/supply-side and social-ecological/demand-side drivers, and cross-scale interactions that influence BES relationships at different scales. Different combinations of these drivers in different contexts will lead to a variety of strengths, shape, and directionality in BES relationships across spatial scales.
Conclusions: we put forward four predictions about the spatial scales that the effects of biodiversity, ecosystem service management, ecosystem co-production, and abiotic linkages or effects will be most evident on BES relationships and use these to propose future directions to best advance BES research across scales.
Cross-scale interactions, Ecosystem service co-production, Ecosystem service demand, Sampling effects, Spatial scale, Species complementarity
Mitchell, Matthew G.E.
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Sonter, Laura J.
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Chan, Kai M.A.
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Felipe-Lucia, María R.
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Jacob, Aerin L.
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Jones, Matthew S.
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Sonter, Laura J.
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Mitchell, Matthew G.E., Qiu, Jiangxiao, Cardinale, Bradley J., Chan, Kai M.A., Eigenbrod, Felix, Felipe-Lucia, María R., Jacob, Aerin L., Jones, Matthew S. and Sonter, Laura J.
(2024)
Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales.
Landscape Ecology, 39 (2), [36].
(doi:10.1007/s10980-024-01842-y).
Abstract
Context: biodiversity loss is predicted to have significant impacts on ecosystem services based on previous ecological work at small spatial and temporal scales. However, scaling up understanding of biodiversity-ecosystem service (BES) relationships to broader scales is difficult since ecosystem services emerge from complex interactions between ecosystems, people, and technology.
Objectives: in order to inform and direct future BES research, identify and categorise the ecological and social-ecological drivers operating at different spatial scales that could strengthen or weaken BES relationships.
Methods: we developed a conceptual framework to understand the potential drivers across spatial scales that could affect BES relationships and then categorized these drivers to synthesize the current state of knowledge.
Results: our conceptual framework identifies ecological/supply-side and social-ecological/demand-side drivers, and cross-scale interactions that influence BES relationships at different scales. Different combinations of these drivers in different contexts will lead to a variety of strengths, shape, and directionality in BES relationships across spatial scales.
Conclusions: we put forward four predictions about the spatial scales that the effects of biodiversity, ecosystem service management, ecosystem co-production, and abiotic linkages or effects will be most evident on BES relationships and use these to propose future directions to best advance BES research across scales.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2024
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Cross-scale interactions, Ecosystem service co-production, Ecosystem service demand, Sampling effects, Spatial scale, Species complementarity
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Matthew G.E. Mitchell
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Jiangxiao Qiu
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Aerin L. Jacob
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Matthew S. Jones
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Laura J. Sonter
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