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Using Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) for Projecting Ecosystem Services at Regional Scales

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Climate change and land-use change are two major drivers of vegetation change causing habitat and biodiversity loss and posing a threat to the sustained provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. Following-up on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Sustainable Development Goals have been a fresh stimulus to the current interest in ecosystem services. Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) offer the possibility of integrating large amounts of geospatial data to quantify and project a large range of ecological variables important for ecosystem service provisioning under future scenarios. We outline how such model output could be used for projecting ecosystem service provisioning.

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  1. Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

    Alice Boit, Boris Sakschewski, Lena Boysen, Ana Cano-Crespo, Fanny Langerwisch, Anja Rammig, Werner von Bloh, Delphine Clara Zemp & Kirsten Thonicke

  2. Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Alice Boit

  3. Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Jan Clement & Michiel van Eupen

  4. National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, CONABIO, Mexico City, Mexico

    Nashieli Garcia Alaniz

  5. Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Kasper Kok

  6. Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Melanie Kolb

  7. National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, Mexico City, Mexico

    Melanie Kolb

  8. School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

    Anja Rammig

  9. Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    René Sachse

  10. Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Delphine Clara Zemp

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

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  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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Boit, A. et al. (2019). Using Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) for Projecting Ecosystem Services at Regional Scales. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_10

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