Rangeland ecosystem services: shifting focus from supply to reconciling supply and demand

Ecosystem services have been extensively studied in recent decades. Most of the thousands of scholarly papers published on the subject have focused on describing the production, spatial extent, and valuation of such services. Human reliance on ecosystem services is a function of ecosystems' cap...

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Published in:Frontiers in ecology and the environment Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 44 - 51
Main Authors: Yahdjian, Laura, Sala, Osvaldo E, Havstad, Kris M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Ecological Society of America 01.02.2015
Subjects:
Agroecosystems
ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Forage
humans
Provisioning ecosystem services
Public land
Rangeland ecology
rangelands
Regulating ecosystem services
Reviews
society
stakeholders
Supply
supply balance
Supporting ecosystem services
Sustainable agriculture
sustainable land management
ISSN:1540-9295, 1540-9309
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Summary:Ecosystem services have been extensively studied in recent decades. Most of the thousands of scholarly papers published on the subject have focused on describing the production, spatial extent, and valuation of such services. Human reliance on ecosystem services is a function of ecosystems' capacity to supply and societal demand for these benefits. However, considerably more attention has been devoted to the supply side than to the demand for them. Sustainable land management depends on reconciling supply of and demand for ecosystem services among different stakeholders. The emphasis is now shifting from the supply of ecosystem services to attaining a balance between supply and demand. Here, we illustrate the demand for rangeland ecosystem services, describe current changes in societal demand, and present a specific provisioning service to exemplify the dynamic nature of reconciling ecosystem-service supply and demand.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/140156
http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/60335
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ISSN:1540-9295
1540-9309
DOI:10.1890/140156