Resource requirements for ecosystem conservation: A combined industrial and natural ecology approach to quantifying natural capital use in nature.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic demand for natural capital is causing catastrophic losses of biodiversity and ecosystem functionality, most notably in regions where socioeconomic-and eco-systems compete for natural capital, e.g., energy (animal or plant matter). However, a poor quantitative understanding of what natural capital is needed to support biodiversity in ecosystems, while at the same time satisfy human development needs-those associated with human development within socioeconomic systems-undermines our ability to sustainably manage global stocks of natural capital. Here we describe a novel concept and accompanying methodology (relating the adult body mass of terrestrial species to their requirements for land area, water, and energy) to quantify the natural capital needed to support terrestrial spe

SUBMITTER: Mason AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9339762 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature