Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

Matthias Schröter; Thomas Koellner; Rob Alkemade; Sebastian Arnhold; Kenneth J. Bagstad; Karl Heinz Erb; Karin Frank; Thomas Kastner; Meidad Kissinger; Jianguo Liu; Laura López-Hoffman; Joachim Maes; Alexandra Marques; Berta Martín-López; Carsten Meyer; Catharina J.E. Schulp; Jule Thober; Sarah Wolff; Aletta Bonn

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003

Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

Matthias Schröter^*
, Thomas Koellner
, Rob Alkemade
, Sebastian Arnhold
, Kenneth J. Bagstad
, Karl Heinz Erb
, Karin Frank
, Thomas Kastner
, Meidad Kissinger
, Jianguo Liu
, Laura López-Hoffman
, Joachim Maes
, Alexandra Marques
, Berta Martín-López
, Carsten Meyer
, Catharina J.E. Schulp
, Jule Thober
, Sarah Wolff
, Aletta Bonn

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand and to incorporate these flows into national and international ecosystem assessments leads to incomplete and potentially skewed conclusions, impairing society's ability to identify sustainable management and policy choices. In this paper, we synthesise existing knowledge and develop a conceptual framework for analysing interregional ecosystem service flows. We synthesise the types of such flows, the characteristics of sending and receiving socio-ecological systems, and the impacts of ecosystem service flows on interregional sustainability. Using four cases (trade of certified coffee, migration of northern pintails, flood protection in the Danube watershed, and information on giant pandas), we test the conceptual framework and show how an enhanced understanding of interregional telecouplings in socio-ecological systems can inform ecosystem service-based decision making and governance with respect to sustainability goals.

Original language	English
Journal	Ecosystem Services
Volume	31
Issue number	Part B
Pages (from-to)	231-241
Number of pages	11
ISSN	2212-0416
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003
Publication status	Published - 01.06.2018

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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 15 Life on Land
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Research areas and keywords

Drivers
Effects
Spatial flows
Sustainability
Teleconnection
Telecoupling
Sustainability Science

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Ecology
Global and Planetary Change
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Geography, Planning and Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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sTeleBES : Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence
Schröter, M. (Project manager, academic), Bonn, A. (Coordination), Koellner, T. (Project manager, academic) & Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.16 → 01.11.17
Project: Research

Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany
Kleemann, J., Schröter, M., Bagstad, K. J., Kuhlicke, C., Kastner, T., Fridman, D., Schulp, C. J. E., Wolff, S., Martínez-López, J., Koellner, T., Arnhold, S., Martín-López, B., Marques, A., Lopez-Hoffman, L., Liu, J., Kissinger, M., Guerra, C. A. & Bonn, A., 01.03.2020, In: Global Environmental Change. 61, 26 p., 102051.
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Schröter, M., Koellner, T., Alkemade, R., Arnhold, S., Bagstad, K. J., Erb, K. H., Frank, K., Kastner, T., Kissinger, M., Liu, J., López-Hoffman, L., Maes, J., Marques, A., Martín-López, B., Meyer, C., Schulp, C. J. E., Thober, J., Wolff, S., & Bonn, A. (2018). Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases. Ecosystem Services, 31(Part B), 231-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003

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Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

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sTeleBES : Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence

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Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany

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