A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature’s Contributions to People
- 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.
| Author: | Giovanni BiancoORCiD, Peter ManningORCiD, Matthias SchleuningORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-858424 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14371 |
| ISSN: | 1461-0248 |
| ISSN: | 1461-023X |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38361471 |
| Parent Title (English): | Ecology letters |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Oxford [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/05 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2024/02/05 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/06/12 |
| Tag: | biodiversity; cascade model; community ecology; ecological networks; ecosystem functioning; ecosystem services; human well-being; social-ecological system; species identity |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | e14371 |
| Article Number: | e14371 |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| Institutes: | Biowissenschaften / Biowissenschaften |
| Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
