TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bianco, Giovanni
A1  - Manning, Peter
A1  - Schleuning, Matthias
T1  - A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature’s Contributions to People
T2  - Ecology letters
N2  - It is widely acknowledged that biodiversity change is affecting human well-being by altering the supply of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP). Nevertheless, the role of individual species in this relationship remains obscure. In this article, we present a framework that combines the cascade model from ecosystem services research with network theory from community ecology. This allows us to quantitatively link NCP demanded by people to the networks of interacting species that underpin them. We show that this “network cascade” framework can reveal the number, identity and importance of the individual species that drive NCP and of the environmental conditions that support them. This information is highly valuable in demonstrating the importance of biodiversity in supporting human well-being and can help inform the management of biodiversity in social-ecological systems.
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - cascade model
KW  - community ecology
KW  - ecological networks
KW  - ecosystem functioning
KW  - ecosystem services
KW  - human well-being
KW  - social-ecological system
KW  - species identity
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/85842
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-858424
SN  - 1461-0248
SN  - 1461-023X
VL  - 27
IS  - e14371
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
ER  -