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With which political developments is BiKF confronted as a research centre as well as concerning its research and transfer efforts? Are there any hints for emerging research questions that meet practical needs? This paper gives an overview – as of June 2010 – on priority issues in the run-up to CBD’s COP-10, the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which will take place in Nagoya/Japan in October 2010. Highlighted discourse threads are: (1) the state of negotiations for an Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime within CBD, (2) European and international preparations for renewing the political objectives for protecting biodiversity (Post-2010 Targets) and (3) the recent decision on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). These three threads are selected against the background of an in depth analysis of the discourse field which was carried out in 2008/09 for BiKF. They show how the field progresses and which developments are worth being incorporated into BiKF’s further work. This Knowledge Flow Paper documents the talk given by the author during the second BiKF Retreat, 17–18 July 2010.
The Ecosystem Service approach has gained a lot of attention lately, as it interlinks ecosystems with the benefits humans derive from them. The Knowledge Flow paper at hand is giving a first overview of the Ecosystem Service approach. The paper focuses on the basic understanding of the concept and the definition of the term Ecosystem Services. It serves as a starting point for the development of a multiple classification system as a tool for ecosystem service inventories, assessment, and valuation studies. The paper briefly deals with the opportunities and challenges of an economic valuation of ecosystem services and provides the main research questions concerning an ecological assessment of ecosystems services.
Based on the scenario work of the project „Waldzukünfte“ (Futures of Forest) initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research a forests conversion in regard to climate adaptation by means of Mediterranean oak tree varieties is examined. We are taking the ecosystem services of a forest marked by this particular tree variety to give an initial estimate of effects and consequences for an according forests conversion. The oak varieties in question have different potentials. In particular Quercus ilex, Q. robur and Q. frainetto can very well contribute to the supporting and regulating functions of the forest ecosystem. In the end strategic goals for silviculture will be decisive for establishing them as climatically adapted tree varieties in future forests. In this context the timber production is only one utility function (provisioning service). Also important are the landscape-building potential of an oak forest ecosystem (prevention of deforestation) as well as as the reproduction of a habitat for forest biodiversity. Apart from that, new economic branches might develop (e.g. truffle cultivation, acorn fattening of pigs). Needs for research are identified as well as new research topics within the centre.
IFLS-Journal. Nr. 15, 2010
(2010)