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TY - CHAP
T1 - The challenges of linking ecosystem services to biodiversity
T2 - lessons from a large-scale freshwater study
AU - Durance, Isabelle
AU - Bruford, Michael W.
AU - Chalmers, Rachel
AU - Chappell, Nick A.
AU - Christie, Mike
AU - Cosby, B. Jack
AU - Noble, David
AU - Ormerod, Steve J.
AU - Prosser, Havard
AU - Weightman, Andrew
AU - Woodward, Guy
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We explore some of the key challenges and opportunities that lie in assessing the role of freshwater biodiversity in sustaining ecosystem services, using the recent large interdisciplinary NERC-DURESS project (www.nerc-DURESS.org) as an exemplar case study of wider issues. The conceptual and methodological challenges raised are identified, explored and a range of methods are proposed to quantify how freshwater ecoservices, such as fish production or water quality regulation, depend on river organisms, and how we might identify biodiversity thresholds under which a service is likely to be compromised. We conclude that interdisciplinary, large scale, in situ approaches like these are needed to (i) fully understand how river biodiversity sustains ecosystem services; (ii) help evaluate if, where, and how the ecosystem approach can benefit long-term resource management and (iii) maximise impacts on policy, practice and decision making, which can be especially effective where strong ‘co-production’ partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders are developed and nurtured from a project's outset.
AB - We explore some of the key challenges and opportunities that lie in assessing the role of freshwater biodiversity in sustaining ecosystem services, using the recent large interdisciplinary NERC-DURESS project (www.nerc-DURESS.org) as an exemplar case study of wider issues. The conceptual and methodological challenges raised are identified, explored and a range of methods are proposed to quantify how freshwater ecoservices, such as fish production or water quality regulation, depend on river organisms, and how we might identify biodiversity thresholds under which a service is likely to be compromised. We conclude that interdisciplinary, large scale, in situ approaches like these are needed to (i) fully understand how river biodiversity sustains ecosystem services; (ii) help evaluate if, where, and how the ecosystem approach can benefit long-term resource management and (iii) maximise impacts on policy, practice and decision making, which can be especially effective where strong ‘co-production’ partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders are developed and nurtured from a project's outset.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Freshwaters
KW - Fish
KW - Dippers
KW - Water quality
KW - Catchment management
KW - Ecosystem processes
U2 - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.003
DO - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.003
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780081009789
T3 - Advances in Ecological Research
SP - 87
EP - 134
BT - Ecosystem services
A2 - Woodward, Guy
A2 - Bohan, David A.
PB - Elsevier
ER -