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Monitoring Changes in Ecosystem Services Within a Forest Ecosystem

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The importance of ecosystem services has been widely accepted since the publication of both the United Nations 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, which assess future scenarios with and without ecosystem services, respectively. To sustainably maintain ecosystem services, assessment of the current state of ecosystem services together with the development of sound management practices are needed at both local and national/regional scales. In the monitoring of biodiversity, coarse-filter indicators are preferred as forest biodiversity indicators, although assessments based on fine-filter indicators should be included if possible because overall forest architecture is not necessarily correlated with species and genetic diversity in the forest. A variety of computer-based tools for ecosystem service assessment are available, although none of these is specialized for the forest ecosystem and for Asian survey. To develop ecosystem service monitoring at a larger (e.g., national) scale, it is ideal to select indicators based on the analysis of monitoring results of fine-scale indicators.

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The study was partly supported by the Global Environment Research Fund S9 and D-1008.

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  1. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Kimiko Okabe & Hisatomo Taki

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  1. Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

    Shin -ichi Nakano

  2. Department of Biology Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tetsukazu Yahara

  3. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Tohru Nakashizuka

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Okabe, K., Taki, H. (2014). Monitoring Changes in Ecosystem Services Within a Forest Ecosystem. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) Integrative Observations and Assessments. Ecological Research Monographs(). Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54783-9_18

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