Integrating ecosystem services into conservation assessments: A review

The last two decades have seen general increase in the number of conservation assessments as well as research on ecosystem services. The concept of ecosystem services have garnered considerable academic attention with the publication of more than 2400 papers focusing on the ways to map, value and estimate these services (Brown et al., 2013) and how ecosystem services relate to biodiversity. Although biodiversity underpins most ecosystem services, there is a call to include ecosystem services into conservation assessments. The main reason to integrate them is to shift from strictly biodiversity conservation plans towards plans that include human well-being.
(Source: Smiso Bhengu)