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Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds
Although there is a diversity of concerns about recent persistent declines in the abundances of many species, the implications for the associated delivery of ecosystem services to people are surprisingly poorly understood. In principle, there are a broad range of potential functional relationships b...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy005 |
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author | Gaston, Kevin J Cox, Daniel T C Canavelli, Sonia B García, Daniel Hughes, Baz Maas, Bea Martínez, Daniel Ogada, Darcy Inger, Richard |
author_facet | Gaston, Kevin J Cox, Daniel T C Canavelli, Sonia B García, Daniel Hughes, Baz Maas, Bea Martínez, Daniel Ogada, Darcy Inger, Richard |
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description | Although there is a diversity of concerns about recent persistent declines in the abundances of many species, the implications for the associated delivery of ecosystem services to people are surprisingly poorly understood. In principle, there are a broad range of potential functional relationships between the abundance of a species or group of species and the magnitude of ecosystem-service provision. Here, we identify the forms these relationships are most likely to take. Focusing on the case of birds, we review the empirical evidence for these functional relationships, with examples of supporting, regulating, and cultural services. Positive relationships between abundance and ecosystem-service provision are the norm (although seldom linear), we found no evidence for hump-shaped relationships, and negative ones were limited to cultural services that value rarity. Given the magnitude of abundance declines among many previously common species, it is likely that there have been substantial losses of ecosystem services, providing important implications for the identification of potential tipping points in relation to defaunation resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-59056622018-04-23 Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds Gaston, Kevin J Cox, Daniel T C Canavelli, Sonia B García, Daniel Hughes, Baz Maas, Bea Martínez, Daniel Ogada, Darcy Inger, Richard Bioscience Overview Articles Although there is a diversity of concerns about recent persistent declines in the abundances of many species, the implications for the associated delivery of ecosystem services to people are surprisingly poorly understood. In principle, there are a broad range of potential functional relationships between the abundance of a species or group of species and the magnitude of ecosystem-service provision. Here, we identify the forms these relationships are most likely to take. Focusing on the case of birds, we review the empirical evidence for these functional relationships, with examples of supporting, regulating, and cultural services. Positive relationships between abundance and ecosystem-service provision are the norm (although seldom linear), we found no evidence for hump-shaped relationships, and negative ones were limited to cultural services that value rarity. Given the magnitude of abundance declines among many previously common species, it is likely that there have been substantial losses of ecosystem services, providing important implications for the identification of potential tipping points in relation to defaunation resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human well-being. Oxford University Press 2018-04-01 2018-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5905662/ /pubmed/29686433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy005 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Overview Articles Gaston, Kevin J Cox, Daniel T C Canavelli, Sonia B García, Daniel Hughes, Baz Maas, Bea Martínez, Daniel Ogada, Darcy Inger, Richard Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title | Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title_full | Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title_fullStr | Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title_full_unstemmed | Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title_short | Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds |
title_sort | population abundance and ecosystem service provision: the case of birds |
topic | Overview Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy005 |
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