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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 240-248Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.011
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- ARC Discovery Project [DP130100218]
- ARC Future Fellowship [FT140100516]
- University of Queensland - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Integrated Natural Resource Management Postgraduate Fellowship
- ARC Linkage Project [LP130100435]
- Australian Research Council [LP130100435] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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How can we tell if the ecosystem services upon which we rely are at risk of being lost, potentially permanently? Ecosystem services underpin human well-being, but we lack a consistent approach for categorizing the extent to which they are threatened. We present an assessment framework for assessing the degree to which the adequate and sustainable provision of a given ecosystem service is threatened. Our framework combines information on the states and trends of both ecosystem service supply and demand, with reference to two critical thresholds: demand exceeding supply and ecosystem service 'extinction'. This framework can provide a basis for global, national, and regional assessments of threat to ecosystem services, and accompany existing assessments of threat to species and ecosystems.
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