UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Ave, St Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2017 Jun;32(6):416-428. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.003. Epub 2017 Apr 12.
Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support this need, significant challenges remain in quantifying connections between ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and human well-being benefits. Here, we provide a framework showing how Earth observation together with socioeconomic information and model-based analysis can support assessments of ecosystem service supply, demand, and benefit, and illustrate this for three services. We argue that the full potential of Earth observation is not yet realized in ecosystem service studies. To provide guidance for priority setting and to spur research in this area, we propose five priorities to advance the capabilities of Earth observation-based monitoring of ecosystem services.
在全球可持续性政策的背景下管理生态系统服务需要可靠的监测机制。虽然卫星地球观测为支持这一需求提供了巨大的潜力，但在量化生态系统功能、生态系统服务和人类福祉效益之间的联系方面仍存在重大挑战。在这里，我们提供了一个框架，展示了地球观测如何与社会经济信息和基于模型的分析相结合，支持对生态系统服务供应、需求和效益的评估，并举例说明了这三种服务。我们认为，地球观测在生态系统服务研究中尚未充分发挥其潜力。为了为重点制定提供指导，并推动该领域的研究，我们提出了五项优先事项，以提高基于地球观测的生态系统服务监测能力。
