Journal
AMBIO
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 1100-1113Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-019-01261-3
Keywords
Biodiversity conservation; Ecosystem service flows; Service-providing species; Sustainability; Telecoupling
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- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [01LN1705A] Funding Source: Medline
- Stichting voor de Technische Wetenschappen [12691] Funding Source: Medline
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Ecosystem service assessments rarely consider flows between distant regions. Hence, telecoupling effects such as conservation burdens in distant ecosystems are ignored. We identified service-providing species for two cultural ecosystem services (existence and bequest, and birdwatching) and two receiving, i.e. benefitting, regions (Germany, the Netherlands). We delineated and analysed sending, i.e. service-providing, regions on a global scale. The proportion of service-providing species with distant habitats was higher for birdwatching (Germany: 58.6%, Netherlands: 59.4%), than for existence and bequest (Germany: 49.3%, Netherlands: 57.1%). Hotspots of sending regions were predominantly situated in tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands and were significantly more threatened and poorer than the global mean. Hotspot protection levels for flows to Germany were higher than the global mean, and lower for the Dutch hotspots. Our findings increase understanding on how distant regions underpin ecosystem services and necessitate interregional assessment as well as conservation efforts.
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