Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature's Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps.

ABSTRACT: Since the late 1990s, Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs; i.e. ecosystem services) were used as a putative leverage for fostering nature preservation. NCPs have largely been defined and mapped at the landscape level using land use and cover classifications. However, NCP mapping attempts based directly on individual species are still uncommon. Given that species shape ecosystems and ultimately deliver NCPs, mapping NCPs based on species distribution data should deliver highly meaningful results. This requires first establishing a census of the species-to-NCP relationships. However, datasets quantifying these relationships across several species and NCPs are rare. Here, we fill this gap by compiling literature and expert knowledge to establish the relationships of 1816 tracheophyte and 2

SUBMITTER: Rey PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature