Flow of Ecosystem Services [WIKIAlps

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===== Flow of Ecosystem Services =====

The ecosystem service flow means the amount of ES that are actually mobilised in a specific area and time. It includes a dynamic temporal dimension and conceptually links ES supply with demand (Potschin & Burkhard 2015) ((Potschin, M. & Burkhard, B. (2015): Glossary for Ecosystem Service mapping and assessment terminology. Deliverable D1.4. EU Horizon 2020 ESMERALDA Project, Grant agreement No. 642007., checked on 4/22/2016.)). Other authors describe ES flow as de facto used ES or sets (bundles) of ES and other outputs from natural systems in a particular area within a given time period (Burkhard et al. 2014; Albert et al. 2015) ((Burkhard, B.; Kandziora, M.; Hou, Y. & Müller, F. (2014): Ecosystem Service Potentials, Flows and Demands – Concepts for Spatial Localisation, Indication and Quantification. In: Landscape Online 34, p. 1–32.)) ((Albert, C.; Bonn, A.; Burkhard, B.; Daube, S.; Dietrich, K.; Engels, B., et al. (2015): Towards a national set of ecosystem service indicators. Insights from Germany. In: Ecological Indicators 61, p. 38–48.)). 
The OpenNESS project defines ES flow as the rate at which ecosystem services are supplied to some beneficiary (Potschin et al. 2016) ((Potschin, M.; Haines-Young, R.; Heink, U. & Jax, K. (Eds.) (2016): OpenNESS Glossary (V3.0). Prepared by the “Glossary editorial team”. Online available at http://www.openness-project.eu/glossary.)). Flow indicators refer to de facto used ES that are changing over time and represent the utilized ecosystem services (Albert et al. 2015) ((Albert, C.; Bonn, A.; Burkhard, B.; Daube, S.; Dietrich, K.; Engels, B., et al. (2015): Towards a national set of ecosystem service indicators. Insights from Germany. In: Ecological Indicators 61, p. 38–48.)).

//In [[:wiki:alpesbackground|AlpES]] the ecosystem service flow describes the de facto used ecosystem services or sets/bundles of ecosystem services and other outputs from natural systems in a particular area within a given time period. The definition is mainly in line with Albert et al. (2015) ((Albert, C.; Bonn, A.; Burkhard, B.; Daube, S.; Dietrich, K.; Engels, B., et al. (2015): Towards a national set of ecosystem service indicators. Insights from Germany. In: Ecological Indicators 61, p. 38–48.)).//


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