Biodiversity conservation and optimizing ecosystem services Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek
Conserving biodiversity and optimizing ecosystem services (ESS) are often mentioned in the same context, suggesting that they are two sides of the same coin. However, they do not necessarily result in the same type of interventions, and some parties raised concern that improvement of ecosystem services could - in some cases - go at the expense of biodiversity. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the dependency of ecosystem services on ...