Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation

[en] Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support this need, significant challenges remain in quantifying connections between ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and human well-being benefits. Here, we provide a framework showing how Earth observation together with socioeconomic information and model-based analysis can support assessments of ecosystem service supply, demand, and benefit, and illustrate this for three services. We argue that the full potential of Earth observation is not yet realized in ecosystem service studies. To provide guidance for priority setting and to spur research in this area, we propose five priorities to advance the capabilities of Earth observation-based monitoring of ecosystem services.

Research center :

Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems (LCSES)

Disciplines :

Environmental sciences & ecology

Author, co-author :

Cord, Anna F.

Brauman, Kate A.

Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca

Huth, Andreas

Ziv, Guy

SEPPELT, Ralf ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems (LCSES)

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation

Publication date :

2017

Journal title :

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

ISSN :

0169-5347

eISSN :

1872-8383

Publisher :

Elsevier, Nl

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

416 - 428

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169534717300642

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