Towards ecological, socioeconomic and cultural sustainability of marine ecosystem services

Nishijima, Shota; Belgrano, Andrea

doi:10.1002/1438-390x.12075

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“…recreation, esthetic assets, and spiritual fulfillment) (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Haines-Young & Potschin, 2018). In recent decades, the growing demand of resources by humans is endangering ecosystem integrity, and thus, the capacity of ecosystems to provide services in a sustainable way (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Nishijima & Belgrano, 2020;O'Brien et al, 2021;Ashrafi et al, 2022). In fact, pollution, overexploitation of resources, and the introduction of exotic species are major threats to many ecosystem services (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Shinichiro et al, 2009;Lodge et al, 2012;Vilà & Hulme 2017;Cañedo-Argüelles, 2020).…”

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Effects of the invasive aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1853) on ecosystem properties and services

et al. 2023

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Ecosystems provide benefits to humans, including provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. However, invasive species can threaten ecosystem well-functioning and services provided. One invasive species with such potential is the New Zealand mud snail (NZMS) Potamopyrgus antipodarum. The aims of this study are focused on the quantitative review of (1) the NZMS impacts on ecosystem properties and their direct links with ecosystem services, and (2) the ecosystem services that can be affected by the NZMS. The high density reached by this species in most of the invaded ecosystems and its highly competitive ability affect ecosystem structure and functioning. However, some facilitation processes on native species may result in an improvement of some services. The NZMS tends to positively affect cultural services (88% positive cases) but negatively to provisioning services (77% of cases). Regarding, regulating and maintenance services, the proportions of positive and negative effects were similar (45% vs 36%, respectively). Therefore, the NZMS is a species with numerous negative impacts on ecosystem services. However, ecosystem services related to health (e.g., dilution effect against parasites) and research (e.g., biomonitoring) are cultural services that the NZMS can improve. No economic assessment of the impacts of the NZMS is available in the literature.

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