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Portrait of Henrik Smith. Photo.

Henrik Smith

Professor

Portrait of Henrik Smith. Photo.

Nature’s services at risk in a changing climate

Author

  • Henrik G. Smith

Editor

  • Sara Naurin

Summary, in English

Climate change is increasingly posing a threat to biodiversity, both through its direct effects on organisms and through indirect effects resulting from changes in land use. Preserving biodiversity is an ethical obligation, but it is also increasingly being realised that biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services, i.e. ecosystem processes important for human needs and prosperity. In order to answer the complex questions surrounding ecosystems and the services they provide us with, as well as to inform land management and policymaking, there is a need for a concerted effort from several scientific disciplines. BECC builds on research essential for understanding the impact of climate change on biodiversity
and ecosystem services, and integrates such knowledge to provide a scientific basis for sustainable management.

Department/s

  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • Biodiversity
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

63-81

Publication/Series

Today’s Great Explorers : New frontiers in Strategy Research at Lund University.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Lund University

Topic

  • Climate Research
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Status

Published

Research group

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science