Abstract
It’s about time: Advancing spatial analyses of ecosystem services and their application
Highlights
In October 2019 the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) held its 10th World Conference in Hannover, Germany
I regard this as something the ecosystem service community has achieved: we are well-aware what to put on a map and how (Willemen et al, 2015; Burkhard and Maes, 2017; van Oudenhoven et al, 2018)
Once we have that user-relevant, robust, well-presented map; does that map have an expiration date? What moment does a map represent, and why does that matter? In this Commentary I argue that the ecosystem service community needs to better deal with time-aspects of ecosystem service information
Summary
In October 2019 the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) held its 10th World Conference in Hannover, Germany. In this Commentary I argue that the ecosystem service community needs to better deal with time-aspects of ecosystem service information. When making statements about trends in ecosystem services, or the impact of area management, we need ecosystem service maps with an expiration date: maps that clearly depict a certain moment in time that allow for comparison.
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