TY - JOUR
T1 - Operationalizing Network Theory for Ecosystem Service Assessments
AU - Dee, Laura E.
AU - Allesina, Stefano
AU - Bonn, Aletta
AU - Eklof, Anna
AU - Gaines, Steven
AU - Hines, Jes
AU - Jacob, Ute
AU - McDonald-Madden, Eve
AU - Possingham, Hugh
AU - Schroter, Matthias
AU - THOMPSON, Ross
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Managing ecosystems to provide ecosystem services in the face of global change is a pressing challenge for policy and science. Predicting how alternative management actions and changing future conditions will alter services is complicated by interactions among components in ecological and socioeconomic systems. Failure to understand those interactions can lead to detrimental outcomes from management decisions. Network theory that integrates ecological and socioeconomic systems may provide a path to meeting this challenge. While network theory offers promising approaches to examine ecosystem services, few studies have identified how to operationalize networks for managing and assessing diverse ecosystem services. We propose a framework for how to use networks to assess how drivers and management actions will directly and indirectly alter ecosystem services.
AB - Managing ecosystems to provide ecosystem services in the face of global change is a pressing challenge for policy and science. Predicting how alternative management actions and changing future conditions will alter services is complicated by interactions among components in ecological and socioeconomic systems. Failure to understand those interactions can lead to detrimental outcomes from management decisions. Network theory that integrates ecological and socioeconomic systems may provide a path to meeting this challenge. While network theory offers promising approaches to examine ecosystem services, few studies have identified how to operationalize networks for managing and assessing diverse ecosystem services. We propose a framework for how to use networks to assess how drivers and management actions will directly and indirectly alter ecosystem services.
KW - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
KW - ecosystem services
KW - natural resource management
KW - network theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006705708&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/operationalizing-network-theory-ecosystem-service-assessments
U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.10.011
M3 - Article
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 32
SP - 118
EP - 130
JO - Trends in Ecology Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology Evolution
IS - 2
ER -