Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

Authors
  • The QUINTESSENCE Consortium
  • D.A. Bohan
  • D. Landuyt
  • A. Ma
  • S. Macfadyen
  • V. Martinet
  • F. Massol
  • G. McInerny
  • J.M. Montoya
  • C. Mulder
  • U. Pascual
  • M.J.O. Pocock
  • P. White
  • S. Blanchemanche
  • M. Bonkowski
  • V. Bretagnolle
  • C. Brönmark
  • L. Dicks
  • A. Dumbrell
  • N. Eisenhauer
  • N. Friberg
  • M.O. Gessner
  • R.J. Gill
  • C. Gray
  • A. Haughton
  • S. Ibanez
  • J. Jensen
  • E. Jeppesen
  • J. Jokela
  • G. Lacroix
  • C. Lannou
  • S. Lavorel
  • J.-F. Le Galliard
  • F. Lescourret
  • S. Liu
  • N. Loeuille
  • O. McLaughlin
  • S. Muggleton
  • J. Peñuelas
  • T. Petanidou
  • S. Petit
  • F. Pomati
  • D. Raffaelli
  • J. Rasmussen
  • A. Raybould
  • X. Reboud
  • G. Richard
  • C. Scherber
  • S. Scheu
  • H. van der Geest
  • J.A. Vonk ORCID logo
Publication date 02-2016
Journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume | Issue number 31 | 2
Pages (from-to) 105-115
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Abstract
The EcoS concept is being used to evaluate the complex social and economic benefits that ecological systems provide to humans. EcoS should explicitly connect the natural and social sciences, but have been criticized for retaining little natural science context.

When formalized in a series of discipline-specific layers, network-based methods can be used in EcoS.

In layer 1, analysis of ecological networks identifies the crucial natural science context for EcoS research, which structures the overlying social science and economic layers, and thus limits the complexity of the problem.

This brings a generic network-based language to EcoS and makes explicit the scales and interactions that connect the disciplines, fostering communication.

Network approaches are a promising method for interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding and predicting EcoS.
Document type Article
Note Opinion. With list of individual authors as a supplement.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003
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