Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem service supply, biodiversity, and habitat conservation status in Europe

A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

“…Nelson et al (2009) also identified that policy interventions could modify the negative trade-offs between commodity production and other ecosystem services and also biodiversity conversions. Maes et al (2012) confirmed that there exist trade-offs among provisioning ecosystem services, regulation services and biodiversity conservation from agroecosystems, while he emphasized that trade-offs can be mitigated through specific management measures, such as increase cropping diversities and plant buffer strips. In this sense, trade-offs between agricultural production and other ecosystem services are not inevitable.…”

Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

“…Third, some studies compare ES priority areas with ES provision. For example, studies showed that habitats under conservation (for example in protected areas) provide more regulating and cultural ES than other habitats in Europe (Eigenbrod et al 2009;Maes et al 2012b). Most of these studies focus on the effects of biodiversity conservation policies, such as protected areas or agrienvironmental schemes, on other ES (Chan et al 2006;Egoh et al 2009Egoh et al , 2011.…”

Ecosystem Services: The Opportunities of Rewilding in Europe

“…It is therefore important to recognize the multiple functions from ecosystems and integrate them in management strategies. To manage for multiple ecosystem services we need to map and identify the spatial synergies and trade-offs between services (Maes et al 2012a;Raudsepp-Hearne et al 2010). In doing so, we are able to identify ecosystems supporting high level of services and biodiversity (Chan et al 2006).…”

“…Today, 45 % of Europe's land cover is forest (1 billion ha) but only 4 % is undisturbed forest (6 million ha). Protecting these ecosystems is important as they support particular ecosystem services, such as recreation and air quality (Maes et al 2012a). Increasing the cover of wilderness areas in Europe trough rewilding of abandoned lands could improve the supply of these services (see Chap.…”