Ecosystem Services Tara Hooper Plymouth Marine Laboratory [email protected].

Ecosystem Services

Tara HooperPlymouth Marine [email protected]

Growing popularity as a management tool….

- What are Ecosystem Services? - Why are they important?

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Ecosystem Services

Communicating the importance of nature

Nature’s Benefits

What does the environment do for me?

Food, raw materials

Wellbeing, heritage

Reducing harm

Understanding the links between people and the environment

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Using Ecosystem Services in Management

Understand the environment in terms of what it provides for people

Determine the value of the environment

Compare this to the value of proposed developments

Falmouth Harbour

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• 500 jobs• £500,000 annually

Cruise ships

vs

Maerl beds

• Important habitat

Underwater habitats in the Biosphere ReserveHabitat Service Benefit

Nursery habitat

Food chain

Burial

Ecosystem Services Tara Hooper Plymouth Marine Laboratory [email protected].

Documents

management tool

value of proposed developments

underwater habitats

heritagereducing harm

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raw materialswellbeing