From ecosystems to socio-economic benefits: A systematic review of coastal ecosystem services in the Baltic Sea.

Autor: Heckwolf MJ; Marine Evolutionary Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. Electronic address: mheckwolf@geomar.de., Peterson A; Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia., Jänes H; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia., Horne P; Pellervo Economic Research PTT, Finland., Künne J; Marine Evolutionary Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany., Liversage K; Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia., Sajeva M; Pellervo Economic Research PTT, Finland., Reusch TBH; Marine Evolutionary Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany., Kotta J; Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2021 Feb 10; Vol. 755 (Pt 2), pp. 142565. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 30.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142565
Abstrakt: Seagrass meadows, algal forests and mussel beds are widely regarded as foundation species that support communities providing valuable ecosystem services in many coastal regions; however, quantitative evidence of the relationship is scarce. Using the Baltic Sea as a case study, a region of significant socio-economic importance in the northern hemisphere, we systematically synthesized the primary literature and summarized the current knowledge on ecosystem services derived from seagrass, macroalgae, and mussels (see animated video summary of the manuscript: Video abstract). We found 1740 individual ecosystem service records (ESR), 61% of which were related to macroalgae, 26% to mussel beds and 13% to seagrass meadows. The most frequently reported ecosystem services were raw material (533 ESR), habitat provision (262 ESR) and regulation of pollutants (215 ESR). Toxins (356 ESR) and nutrients (302 ESR) were the most well-documented pressures to services provided by coastal ecosystems. Next, we assessed the current state of knowledge as well as knowledge transfer of ecosystem services to policies through natural, social, human and economic dimensions, using a systematic scoring tool, the Eco-GAME matrix. We found good quantitative information about how ecosystems generated the service but almost no knowledge of how they translate into socio-economic benefits (8 out of 657 papers, 1.2%). While we are aware that research on Baltic Sea socio-economic benefits does exist, the link with ecosystems providing the service is mostly missing. To close this knowledge gap, we need a better analytical framework that is capable of directly linking existing quantitative information about ecosystem service generation with human benefit.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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