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Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003

1872-8383

David A. Bohan, Dries Landuyt, Athen Ma, Sarina Macfadyen, Vincent Martinet, François Massol, Greg McInerny, José M. Montoya, Christian Mulder, Unai Pascual, Michael J. O. Pocock, Piran C. L. White, Sandrine Blanchemanche, Michael Bonkowski, Vincent Bretagnolle, Christer Brönmark, Lynn V. Dicks, Alex J. Dumbrell, Nico Eisenhauer, Nikolai Friberg, Mark O. Gessner, Richard J. Gill, Clare Gray, A. J. Haughton, Sébastien Ibanez, John Jensen, Erik Jeppesen, Jukka Jokela, Gérard Lacroix, Christian Lannou, Sandra Lavorel, Jean‐François Le Galliard, Françoise Lescourret, Shanlin Liu, Nicolas Loeuille, Órla McLaughlin, Stephen Muggleton, Josep Peñuelas, Theodora Petanidou, Sandrine Petit, Francesco Pomati, Dave Raffaelli, Jes J. Rasmussen, Alan Raybould, Xavier Reboud, Guy Richard, Christoph Scherber, Stefan Scheu, William J. Sutherland, Alireza Tamaddoni‐Nezhad, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Mette Termansen, Murray S. A. Thompson, Teja Tscharntke, Corinne Vacher, Harm van der Geest, Winfried Voigt, J. Arie Vonk, Xin Zhou, Guy Woodward,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem processes or functions only become EcoS if they are shown to have social and/or economic value. This should assure an explicit connection between the natural and social sciences, but EcoS approaches have been criticized for retaining little natural science. Preserving the natural, ecological science context within EcoS research is challenging because the multiple disciplines involved have very different traditions and vocabularies (common-language challenge) and span many organizational levels and temporal and spatial scales (scale challenge) that define the relevant interacting entities (interaction challenge). We propose a network-based approach to transcend these discipline challenges and place the natural science context at the heart of EcoS research.