Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?
Project Description
This will be much more than a simple mapping exercise because it will be important to extend methods of ecosystem valuation to services and levels of detail that have been lacking thus far in the literature. Most existing maps of ecosystem services simply categorize each land area as a habitat type, and then assign to that habitat type some "generalized dollar value". In contrast we seek to create a spatially explicit accounting of biodiversity targets and ecosystems services, along with a consideration of who benefits from the services, and who might be expected to pay for them and how.
Our purpose is not to replace the goal of biodiversity protection with the goal of ecosystem service protection. Rather we seek to understand if and how the two goals might both be met, as well as how to minimize tradeoffs between the two goals where biodiversity and services are not strongly correlated. In addition to doing the spatial analyses of services and biodiversity, we will explore financial mechanisms that might help pay for the services.
Our working group will start with a mapping and valuation exercise entailing the Upper Yangtze River in China because of the many critical resource decisions this biodiversity rich region is currently facing. We will then extend our analyses to other systems, as well as different spatial scales. Our working group will be fluid with membership varying depending on the systems and analyses under discussion; however the two hallmarks of this effort are its mix of on-the-ground conservation experience from international conservation NGO's and academic scholars, including economists, ecologists and conservation planners.
Principal Investigator(s)
Project Dates
Start: September 26, 2005
End: April 11, 2008
completed
Participants
- Wiktor L. Adamowicz
- University of Alberta
- Paul R. Armsworth
- University of Sheffield
- Juliann E. Aukema
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Andrew Balmford
- University of Cambridge
- Kate Brauman
- Stanford University
- Neil Burgess
- Unknown
- D. Richard Cameron
- Jeffrey Camm
- University of Cincinnati
- Kai M.A. Chan
- University of British Columbia
- Richard M. Cowling
- University of Port Elizabeth
- Gretchen Daily
- Stanford University
- Holly Davis
- The Nature Conservancy
- Tom Dillon
- World Wildlife Fund
- Andy Drumm
- The Nature Conservancy
- Qun Du
- The Nature Conservancy
- William F. Fagan
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Kathleen Farley
- The Nature Conservancy
- Jixi Gao
- Chinese Research Academy of Environment Sciences
- Emma E. Goldberg
- University of California, San Diego
- Joshua Goldstein
- Stanford University
- Michael Heiner
- The Nature Conservancy
- David Hulse
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Peter Kareiva
- The Nature Conservancy
- Claire Kremen
- University of California, Berkeley
- Russell Lande
- University of California, San Diego
- Bernhard Lehner
- World Wildlife Fund
- Li Lifeng
- World Wildlife Fund, China
- Jack Liu
- Michigan State University
- Eric Lonsdorf
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Heike K. Lotze
- Dalhousie University
- Guillermo Mendoza
- Unknown
- Belinda Morris
- Pantaleo Munishi
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
- William W. Murdoch
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Robin Naidoo
- World Wildlife Fund
- Erik Nelson
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Stephen Polasky
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Ye Qi
- The Nature Conservancy
- James Regetz
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Taylor Ricketts
- World Wildlife Fund
- Matthieu Rouget
- University of Cambridge
- James N. Sanchirico
- Resources for the Future
- M. Rebecca Shaw
- Stanford University
- Andrew Solow
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Heather Tallis
- Stanford University
- Christine Tam
- Stanford University
- Barton H. Thompson
- Stanford University
- Paul West
- The Nature Conservancy
- Sue White
- Cranfield University
- Bart Wickel
- World Wildlife Fund
- Boris Worm
- Dalhousie University
Products
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Journal Article / 2009
Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales