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Title: | Ecosystem services in agriculture: understanding the multifunctional role of invertebrates | Contributor(s): | Saunders, Manu (author) | Publication Date: | 2018 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1111/afe.12248 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23064 | Abstract: | The ecosystem services concept was developed in the 1980s and 1990s to promote the understanding that nature is essential for human survival and well-being (Westman, 1977; Ehrlich & Mooney, 1983; Daily, 1997). Of course, this idea is not new. Humans have appreciated the benefits nature provides for millennia. However, incorporating the concept into modern science and developing meaningful ways to quantify and value ecosystem services has been complicated. There are also broad misconceptions about the concept. Although much of the lit- erature on ecosystem services has focused on economics and accounting systems, the concept is not simply about 'putting a price on nature'. As a conceptual framework, it has direct application to basic and applied research on species and systems that interact with humans. Quantifying how species and their interactions provide benefits to humans is a valuable way to inform biodiversity conservation programmes and sustainable production systems. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 20(2), p. 298-300 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1461-9563 1461-9555 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity 050102 Ecosystem Function |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 410401 Conservation and biodiversity 410203 Ecosystem function |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960504 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180601 Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science UNE Business School |
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