Abstract
Balancing biodiversity conservation with food security and the preservation of a broader set of ecosystem services is among the greatest challenges of the century. The creation of the International Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), at the interface between decision support and scientific knowledge, is clearly in line with this ecological-economic perspective. IPBES particularly puts forward the development of model-based scenarios making sense economically and ecologically and promoting sustainability. The present paper provides generic modeling methods and tools to address such challenges. The paper argues that the framework of controlled dynamic systems under uncertainty together with ecoviability metrics are especially well suited. Such a modeling framework indeed makes it possible to simultaneously account for complex dynamics, indirect or indirect drivers, uncertainties along with multiple sustainability objectives. These general ideas are exemplified with scenarios relating to two applied fields: (i) fisheries and marine biodiversity and (ii) land-use and avifauna.
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International Council for the Exploration of the Sea http://www.ices.dk/Pages/default.aspx
Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.fao.org/home/en/
Convention on Biological Diversity https://www.cbd.int/history/
International Union for Conservation of Nature https://www.iucn.org/
The framework is generic enough to potentially account for Bayesian learning as in the Kalman filter for instance. To achieve this, we would need to consider an augmented dynamic system with the estimation of the states (or the parameters) as additional states evolving according to an iterative prediction-correction process.
Without loss of generality, a disservice, can be represented by its negative value, so that the direction of the inequality in Eq. 7 holds.
The model does not integrate inter-specific competition or migration here.
Other density-dependent population dynamics could have been used such as logistic, Ricker, or Gomperz models.
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The role of the research projects VOGUE, ECOPE (PIG CNRS), NAVIRE (Cluster of Excellence COTE, ANR-10-LABX-45), OYAMAR (FEDER), and ACROSS (ANR-14-CE03-0001) was also decisive. We are very grateful to Nicolas Sanz for his help in the editing of this paper.
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This work has been carried out with the financial support of the Belmont Forum through the network SEAVIEW (ANR-14-JPF1-0003).
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Doyen, L. Mathematics for Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Environ Model Assess 23, 729–742 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-018-9632-4
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