This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the contributions that ecosystems provide to human well-being. The scope of this atlas is on identifying solutions and lessons to be applied across science, policy and practice. The atlas will address different components of ecosystem services, assess risks and vulnerabilities, and outline governance and management opportunities. The atlas will therefore attract a wide audience, both from policy and practice and from different scientific disciplines. The emphasis will be on ecosystems in Europe, as the available data on service provision is best developed for this region and recognizes the strengths of the contributing authors. Ecosystems of regions outside Europe will be covered where possible.
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Matthias Schröter,
Aletta Bonn
Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany
Stefan Klotz,
Cornelia Baessler
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Ralf Seppelt
About the editors
Stefan Klotz, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Halle, Germany
Aletta Bonn, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
Ralf Seppelt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Matthias Schröter, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
Cornelia Baessler, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Halle, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atlas of Ecosystem Services
Book Subtitle: Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses