Publications


Natural Capital, Theory and Practice

Here you can find citations and links to many of the articles and books written by Natural Capital Project team members about environmental services and conservation. You can also find a broad list of important related articles and reports written by other authors. Links to articles that appeared in peer-reviewed journals use the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system and most require an individual or institutional subscription (i.e. through a university library).


Natural Capital Project Authors


Papers (in chronological order)


2013

Impact of climate extremes on hydrological ecosystem services in a heavily humanized Mediterranean basin

M. Terrado, V. Acuña, D. Ennaanay H. Tallis, S. Sabatera

Ecological Indicators, In Press


Tapped out: how can cities secure their water future?

Brian D. Richter, David Abelb, Emily Bacha, Kate Brauman, Stavros Calos, Alex Cohn, Carlos Disla, Sarah Friedlander O'Brien, David Hodges, Scott Kaiser, Maria Loughran, Cristina Mestre, Melissa Reardon and Emma Siegfried

Water Policy 15 (2013) 335–363


Conservation status and effects of harvest on an endemic multi-purpose cycad, Cycas circinalis L., Western Ghats, India

Vansana Krishnamurthy, Lisa Mandle, Tamara Ticktin, R. Ganesan, C.S. Saneesh, & Anita Varghese

Tropical Ecology 54(3): 309-320, 2013


Moderate land use shifts plant diversity from overstory to understory and contributes to biotic homogenization in a seasonally dry tropical ecosystem

Lisa Mandle, Tamara Ticktin

Biological Conservation, Volume 158, February 2013, Pages 326–333


Conserving large carnivores: Dollars and fence

Packer, C., A. Loveridge, S. Canney, T. Caro, S.T. Garnett, M. Pfeifer, K.K. Zander, A. Swanson, D. MacNulty, G. Balme, H. Bauer, C.M. Begg, K.S. Begg, S. Bhalla, C. Bissett, T. Bodasing, H. Brink, A. Burger, A.C. Burton, B. Clegg, S. Dell, A. Delsink, T. Dickerson, S.M. Dloniak, D. Druce, L. Frank, P. Funston, N. Gichohi, R. Groom, C. Hanekom, B. Heath, L. Hunter, H.H. DeIongh, C.J. Joubert, S.M. Kasiki, B. Kissui, W. Knocker, B. Leathem, P.A. Lindsey, S.D. Maclennan, J.W. McNutt, S.M. Miller, S. Naylor, P. Nel, C. Ng'weno, K. Nicholls, J.O. Ogutu, E. Okot-Omoya, B.D. Patterson, A. Plumptre, J. Salerno, K. Skinner, R. Slotow, E.A. Sogbohossou, K.J. Stratford, C. Winterbach, H. Winterbach, and S. Polasky.

Ecology Letters Vol. 16, Issue 5, pages 635-641, May 2013


Auction designs for allocating wind energy leases on the U.S. outer continental shelf

Griffin, R.

Energy Policy, 56, 603-611


The Challenges of Incorporating Cultural Ecosystem Services into Environmental Assessment

Debra Satz, Rachelle K. Gould, Kai M. A. Chan, Anne Guerry, Bryan Norton, Terre Satterfield, Benjamin S. Halpern, Jordan Levine, Ulalia Woodside, Neil Hannahs, Xavier Basurto, Sarah Klain

AMBIO. 2013. DOI 10.1007/s13280-013-0386-6


Restoring native forest understory: The influence of ferns and light in a Hawaiian experiment

Gould, RK, HA Mooney, L Nelson, R Shallenberger, and GC Daily

Sustainability 5: 1317-1339


Social norms and global environmental challenges: The complex interaction of behaviors, values, and policy

Kinzig, AP, PR Ehrlich, L Alston, K Arrow, S Barrett, GC Daily, B Fischhoff, S Fitzpatrick, B Levin, S Levin, M Oppenheimer, E Ostrom, D Saari, BB Torrey

BioScience 63: 164-175


Forest restoration and parasitoid wasp communities in montane Hawai'i

Gould, RK, L Pejchar, SG Bothwell, B Brosi, S Wolny, CD Mendenhall, and GC Daily

PLoS One 8(3): e59356 (11 pages)


Effects of Climate Change on Range Forage Production in the San Francisco Bay Area

Chaplin-Kramer, R. and M.R. George

PLoS ONE 8(3): e57723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057723


Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return, and conservation

Benjamin S. Halpern, Carissa J. Klein, Christopher J. Brown, Maria Beger, Hedley S. Grantham, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Mary Ruckelshaus, Vivitskaia J. Tulloch, Matt Watts, Crow White, and Hugh P. Possingham

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publication date: 28 March, 2013).


Low biodiversity stable state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

Isbell, F., D. Tilman, S. Polasky, S. Binder, and P. Hawthorne

Ecology Letters (2013)


The effects of well management and the nature of the aquifer on groundwater resources

Huang, Q.Q., Y.Liu, S. Rozelle, S. Polasky and J. Wang

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(1): 94-116


Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change

M. Ruckelshaus, S.C. Doney, H.M. Galindo, J.P. Barry, F. Chan, J.E. Duffy, C.A. English, S.D. Gaines, J.M. Grebmeier, A.B. Hollowed, N. Knowlton, J. Polovina, N.N. Rabalais, W.J. Sydeman, L.D. Talley

Marine Policy 40 (2013) 154-159


Securing natural capital and human well-being: Innovation and impact in China

Daily, GC, Z Ouyang, H Zheng, S Li, Y Wang, M Feldman, P Kareiva, S Polasky, M Ruckelshaus

Acta Ecologica Sinica 33: 669-676.


Ecosystem Services In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition)

Heather Tallis, Anne Guerry, Gretchen C. Daily

Academic Press, Waltham, 2013, pp. 96-104.


Modeling Marine Ecosystem Services In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition)

Anne D. Guerry, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Mark L. Plummer, Dan Holland

Academic Press, Waltham, 2013, Volume 5, pp. 329-346.


Modeling Terrestrial Ecosystem Services In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition)

Erik Nelson, Nirmal Bhagabati, Driss Ennaanay, Eric Lonsdorf, Derric Pennington, Manu Sharma

Academic Press, Waltham, 2013, Pages 347-361.


Biodiversity, human well-being, and markets In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition)

Binder, S. and S. Polasky

Academic Press, Waltham, 2013, Pages 435–439.


Characterizing coastal foodwebs with qualitative links to bridge the gap between the theory and the practice of ecosystem-based management

Michael P. Carey, Phillip S. Levin, Howard Townsend, Thomas J. Minello, Glen R. Sutton, Tessa B. Francis, Chris J. Harvey, Jodie E. Toft, Katie K. Arkema, Jennifer L. Burke, Choong-Ki Kim, Anne D. Guerry, Mark Plummer, Georgi Spiridonov, and Mary Ruckelshaus

ICES Journal of Marine Science (2013) doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fst012


2012

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

Deepak K. Ray, Navin Ramankutty, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul C. West & Jonathan A. Foley

Nature Communications 3, Article number: 1293, December 18, 2012


Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services

Michelle D. Staudinger, Nancy B. Grimm, Amanda Staudt, Shawn L. Carter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Peter Kareiva, Mary Ruckelshaus, Bruce A. Stein.

Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment (2012). 296 p.


Investing in Natural Capital In: J. Murray, G. Cawthorne, C. Dey and C. Andrew, C. (Eds). Enough For All Forever

Gretchen Daily, Heather Tallis and Anne Guerry

Common Ground Publishing LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2012). pp. 105-119


Ecosystem Services. In: A. Hastings and L. Gross, eds. Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology

Fio Micheli and Anne Guerry

University of California Press (2012). pp 235-241.


The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health

Gregory N. Bratman, J. Paul Hamilton, & Gretchen C. Daily

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1249: 118–136.


Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

Deepak K. Ray, Navin Ramankutty, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul C. West & Jonathan A. Foley

Nature Communications 3, Article number: 1293, December 18, 2012


Assessing the comparative productivity advantage of bioenergy feedstocks at different latitudes

Runge, C.F., J. Sheehan, B. Senauer, J. Foley, J. Gerber, J.A. Johnson, S. Polasky, C.P. Runge.

Environmental Research Letters 7(4): 045906


The common ground of biodiversity and ecosystem services demonstrated: A response to Faith

Reyers, B., S. Polasky, H. Tallis, H. Mooney and A. Larigauderie

BioScience 62(9): 785-786


Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

Levin, S., T. Xepapadeas, A.-S. Crépin, J. Norberg, A. de Zeeuw, C. Folke, T. Hughes, K. Arrow, S. Barrett, G. Daily, P. Ehrlich, N. Kautsky, K.-G. Mäler, S. Polasky, M. Troell, J.R. Vincent, and B. Walker

Environment and Development Economics 17(6): 1- 22


Regime shifts and management

Crepin, A.-S., R. Biggs, S. Polasky, M. Troell, and A. de Zeeuw

Ecological Economics 84: 15-22


Maximizing return on conservation investment in the conterminous U.S.

Withey, J., J. Lawler, S. Polasky, A. Plantinga, E. Nelson, P. Kareiva, C. Wilsey, C. Schloss, T. Nogeire, A. Ruesch, J. Ramos, Jr. and W. Reid

Ecology Letters (2012),15: 1249-1256


An index to assess the health and benefits of global marine social-ecological systems

Halpern, B.S., C. Longo, D. Hardy, K.L. McLeod, J.F. Samhouri, S.K. Katona, K. Kleisner, S.E. Lester, J. O'Leary, M. Ranelletti, A.A. Rosenberg, C. Scarborough, E.R. Selig, B.D. Best, D.R. Brumbaugh, F.S. Chapin III, L.B. Crowder, K.L. Daly, S.C. Doney, C. Elfes, M.J. Fogarty, S.D. Gaines, K. Jacobsen, L. Bunce Karrer, H.M. Leslie, E. Neeley, D. Pauly, S. Polasky, B. Ris, K. St. Martin, G.S. Stone, U.R. Sumaila, and D. Zeller

Nature (2012), 488: 615-620


Managed relocation: integrating the scientific, regulatory and ethical challenges

Schwartz, M., J. Hellmann, J. McLachlan, D. Sax, J. Borevitz, J. Brennan, A. Camacho, G. Ceballos, J.Rappaport Clark, H. Doremus, R. Early, J. Etterson, D. Fielder, J. Gill, P. Gonzalez, N. Green, L. Hannah, D. Jamieson, D. Javeline, B. Minteer, J. Odenbaugh, S. Polasky, D. Richardson and T. Root

BioScience (2012), 62(8): 732-743


Program on ecosystem change and society: An international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems

Carpenter, S.R., C. Folke, A. Norström, O. Olsson, L Schultz, B. Agarwal, P. Balvanera, B. Campbell, J.C. Castilla, W. Cramer, R. DeFries, P. Eyzaguirre, T.P. Hughes, S. Polasky, Z. Sanusi, R. Scholes and M. Spierenburg

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2012), 4(1): 134-138


Economic-based projections of future land use in the conterminous U.S. under alternative policy scenarios

Radeloff, V.C., E. Nelson, A. J. Plantinga, D. J. Lewis, D. Helmers, J. J. Lawler, J. C. Withey, F. Beaudry, S. Martinuzzi, V. Butsic, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, and S. Polasky

Ecological Applications (2012), 22(3): 1036–1049


Response—Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More

Kinzig, A., C. Perrings, F.S. Chapin III, S. Polasky, V. K. Smith, D. Tilman and B. L. Turner II

Science (2012), 335: 656-657


Conservation in the red

Steve Polasky

Nature (2012), 492: 193-194


General resilience to cope with extreme events

Carpenter, S., K. Arrow, S. Barrett, R. Biggs, W. Brock, A.-S. Crepin, G. Engstrom, C. Folke, T. Hughes, N. Kautsky, C.-Z. Li, G. McCarney, K. Meng, K.-G. Maler, S. Polasky, M. Scheffer, J. Shogren, T. Sterner, S. Taylor, J. Vincent, B. Walker, A. Xepapadeas, and A. de Zeeuw

Sustainability 4(12): 3248-3259


Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services

Michelle D. Staudinger, Nancy B. Grimm, Amanda Staudt, Shawn L. Carter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Peter Kareiva, Mary Ruckelshaus, Bruce A. Stein.

Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment (2012). 296 p.


The Role of Eelgrass in Marine Community Interactions and Ecosystem Services: Results from Ecosystem-Scale Food Web Models

Mark L. Plummer, Chris J. Harvey, Leif E. Anderson, Anne D. Guerry, Mary H. Ruckelshaus

Ecosystems. November, 2012


Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

Patricia Balvanera, María Uriarte, Lucía Almeida-Leñero, Alice Altesor, Fabrice DeClerck, Toby Gardner, Jefferson Hall, Antonio Lara, Pedro Laterra, Marielos Peña-Claros, Dalva M. Silva Matos, Luz Piedad Romero-Duque, Adrian L. Vogl, Luis Felipe Arreola, Ángela Piedad Caro-Borrero, Federico Gallego, Meha Jain, Christian Little, Rafael de Oliveira Xavier, José M. Paruelo, Jesús Emilio Peinado, Lourens Poorter, Nataly Ascarrunz, Francisco Correa, Marcela B. Cunha-Santino, Amabel Paula Hernández-Sánchez, María Vallejos

Ecosystem Services. In Press - Available Online November 6, 2012


More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

Sonia Kefi Eric L. Berlow, Evie A. Wieters, Sergio A. Navarrete, Owen L. Petchey, Spencer A. Wood, Alice Boit, Lucas N. Joppa,Kevin D. Lafferty, Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez, Bruce A. Menge,Carol A. Blanchette, Alison C. Iles, and Ulrich Brose1

Ecology Letters, (2012) 15: 291–300


Health, poverty, and place in Accra, Ghana: mapping neighborhoods

Gregory M. Verutes, Magdalena B. Fiocco, John R. Weeks & Lloyd L. Coulter

Journal of Maps, November 2012


A Global System for Monitoring Ecosystem Service Change

Heather Tallis, Hal Mooney, Sandy Andelman, Patricia Balvanera, Wolfgang Cramer, Danny Karp, Stephen Polasky, Belinda Reyers, Taylor Ricketts, Steve Running, Kirsten Thonicke, Britta T ietjen, and Ariane Walz

BioScience, 16 November 2012


The Role of Eelgrass in Marine Community Interactions and Ecosystem Services: Results from Ecosystem-Scale Food Web Models

Mark L. Plummer, Chris J. Harvey, Leif E. Anderson, Anne D. Guerry and Mary H. Ruckelshaus

Ecosystems, 7 November 2012


Catching the Right Wave: Evaluating Wave Energy Resources and Potential Compatibility with Existing Marine and Coastal Uses

Choong-Ki Kim, Jodie E. Toft, Michael Papenfus, Gregory Verutes, Anne D. Guerry, Marry H. Ruckelshaus, Katie K. Arkema, Gregory Guannel, Spencer A. Wood, Joanna R. Bernhardt, Heather Tallis, Mark L. Plummer, Benjamin S. Halpern, Malin L. Pinsky, Michael W. Beck, Francis Chan, Kai M. A. Chan, Phil S. Levin, Stephen Polasky

PLoS ONE 7(11), 2012


Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services

Bonnie L. Keeler, Stephen Polasky, Kate A. Brauman, Kris A. Johnson, Jacques C. Finlay, Ann O'Neill, Kent Kovacs, and Brent Dalzell

PNAS November 6, 2012 vol. 109 no. 45 18619-18624


Decision scaling: Linking bottom-up vulnerability analysis with climate projections in the water sector

Casey Brown, Yonas Ghile, Mikaela Laverty, Ke Li

Water Resources Research: Volume 48, Issue 9, September 2012


Valuing wetland ecosystem services: A case study of Delaware

Flight, M., R. Paterson, K. Dorion and S. Polasky

National Wetlands Newsletter. Environmental Law Institute. September-October 2012, 16-20


Ecosystem valuation. In: A. Hastings and L.J. Gross (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology

Steve Polasky

University of California Press, Berkeley (2012)


Valuing the environment for decision-making

Polasky, S. and S. Binder

Issues in Science and Technology (2012), 28(4): 53-62


Pest control experiments show benefits of complexity at landscape and local scales

Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer and Claire Kremen

Ecological Applications, October 2012, Volume 22, Issue 7, 1936-1948


Linking Ecosystem Health and Services to Inform Marine Ecosystem-Based Management

Katie K. Arkema and Jameal F. Samhouri

American Fisheries Society Symposium 79:9–25, 2012


Are investments to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services aligned?

Stephen Polasky, Kris Johnson, Bonnie Keeler, Kent Kovacs, Erick Nelson, Derric Pennington, Andrew J. Plantinga, and John Withey

Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2012) 28(1):139-163, doi:10.1093/oxrep/grs011


Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

Nathaniel D. Mueller, James S. Gerber, Matt Johnston, Deepak K. Ray, Navin Ramankutty & Jonathan A. Foley

Nature (2012), doi:10.1038/nature11420


Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement

Kai M. A. Chan, Anne D. Guerry, Patricia Balvanera, Sarah Klain, Terre Satterfield, Xavier Basurto, Ann Bostrom, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Rachelle Gould, Benjamin S. Halpern, Neil Hannahs, Jordan Levine, Bryan Norton, Mary Ruckelshaus, Roly Russell, Jordan Tam and Ulalia Woodside

BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 8 (August 2012), pp. 744-756


Inclusive Wealth Report 2012. Measuring progress toward sustainability.

Includes Heather Tallis, Steve Polasky, and Stacy Wolny as authors.

UNU-IDHP and UNEP. Cambridge University Press.


Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

Bradley J. Cardinale, J.Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez, David U. Hooper, Charles Perrings, Patrick Venail, Anita Narwani, Georgina M. Mace, David Tilman, David A.Wardle, Ann P. Kinzig, Gretchen C. Daily, Michel Loreau, James B. Grace, Anne Larigauderie, Diane S. Srivastava & Shahid Naeem

Nature, June 7, 2012, 486, pp 59-67


Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization

Paul R. Ehrlich, Peter M. Kareiva & Gretchen C. Daily

Nature, June 7, 2012, 486, pp 68-73


Climate change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and function.

Doney, S., M. Ruckelshaus, J.E. Duffy, J. Barry, F. Chan, C. English, H. Galindo, J. Grebmeier, A. Hollowed, N. Knowlton, J. Polovina, N. Rabalais, W. Sydeman, L. Talley.

Annual Reviews of Marine Science 4: 4.1-4.27 (2012)


Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin

Kris A. Johnson, Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, and Derric Pennington

Ecological Economics 79 (2012) 71–79


Finding a Common ground for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Reyers, B., Polasky, S., Tallis, H., Mooney, H., Larigauderie, A.

BioScience, May, 2012, vol. 62(5), pp 503-507


Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions

Joshua H. Goldstein, Giorgio Caldarone, Thomas Kaeo Duarte, Driss Ennaanay, Neil Hannahs, Guillermo Mendoza, Stephen Polasky,Stacie Wolny, and Gretchen C. Daily

PNAS, April 23, 2012, vol. 109(19), pp 7565-7570


Dam choices: Analyses for multiple needs

Peter Karevia

PNAS (April, 2012)


Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin [Full PDF]

Guy Ziv, Eric Baran So Nam, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, and Simon A. Levin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(10), (March 5 2012)


Ecosystem Services

Rosenthal, A., McKenzie, E., Lyon, K.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability , (2012)


A Green Vision for Sumatra: Using ecosystem services information to make recommendations for sustainable land use planning at the provice and district level [Summary] [Full PDF]

Nirmal Bhagabati, Thomas Barano, Marc Conte, Driss Ennaanay, Oki Hadian, Emily McKenzie, Nasser Olwero, Amy Rosenthal, Suparmoko, Aurelie Shapiro, Heather Tallis, and Stacie Wolny

(February, 2012)


Does household composition matter? The impact of the Grain for Green Program on rural livelihoods in China.

Liang Yicheng, Li Shuzhou, Marc Feldman, and Gretchen Daily.

Ecological Economics 75:152-160. (2012)


Water funds and payments for ecosystem services: practice learns from theory and theory can learn from practice

Rebecca L. Goldman-Benner, Silvia Benitez, Timothy Boucher, Alejandro Calbache, Gretchen Daily, Peter Kareiva, Timm Kroeger, and Aurelio Ramos

Oryx, 46(1), 55-63 (February 2012)


Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

Anne D. Guerry, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Katie K. Arkema, Joey R. Bernhardt, Gregory Guannel, Choong-Ki Kim, Matthew Marsik, Michael Papenfus, Jodie E. Toft, Gregory Verutes, Spencer A. Wood, Michael Beck, Francis Chan, Kai M.A. Chan, Guy Gelfenbaum, Barry D. Gold, Benjamin S. Halpern, William B. Labiosa, Sarah E. Lester, Phil S. Levin, Melanie McField, Malin L. Pinsky, Mark Plummer, Stephen Polasky, Peter Ruggiero, David A. Sutherland, Heather Tallis, Andrew Day & Jennifer Spencer

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management (January 2012)


2011

Developing Ecosystem Service Indicators: Experiences and lessons learned from sub-global assessments and other initiatives

Contributing authors include: Thomas Barano, Oki Hadian, Nirmal Bhagabati, Taylor Ricketts, Amy Rosenthal

Not peer-reviewed: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Quebec, Canada (2011)


Rural household income and inequality under the Sloping Land Conversion Program in western China. Li Jie, Marc Feldman, Li Shuzhou, and Gretchen Daily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:7721-7726. (2011)


New Metrics for managing and sustaining the ocean's bounty

Tallis, H. Lester, S.E., Ruckelshaus, M., Plummer, M., McLeod, K., Guerry, A., Andelman, S., Caldwell, M., Conte, M., Copps, S., Fox, D., Fujita, R., Gaines, S.D., Gelfenbaum, G., Gold, B., Kareiva, P., Kim, C., Lee, K., Papenfus, M., Redman, S., Silliman, B., Wainger, L., White, C.

Marine Policy, 2011


Reconnecting to the biosphere

Folke, C., A. Jansson, J. Rockstrom, P. Olsson, S. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin, A.-S. Crepin, G. Daily, K. Danell, J. Ebbesson, T. Elmqvist, V. Galaz, F. Moberg, M. Nilsson, H. Osterblom, E. Ostrom, A. Persson, G. Peterson, S. Polasky, W.Steffen, B. Walker and F. Westley

Ambio (2011), 40(7): 719-738


Paying for ecosystem services – promise and peril

Kinzig, A., C. Perrings, F.S. Chapin III, S. Polasky, V. K. Smith, D. Tilman and B. L. Turner II

Science (2011), 334: 603-604.


Solutions for a cultivated planet

Foley, J., N. Ramankutty, C. Balzer, E.M. Bennett, K.A. Brauman, S.R. Carpenter, E. Cassidy, J. Gerber, J. Hill, M. Johnston, C. Monfreda, N.D. Mueller, C. O'Connell, S. Polasky, D.K. Ray, J. Rockström, J. Sheehan, S. Siebert, D. Tilman, P.C. West and D.P.M. Zaks

Nature (2011), 420: 337-342

Optimal management with potential regime shifts

Polasky, S., A. de Zeeuw and F. Wagener

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2011), 62: 229-240


Bridging the divide between fisheries and marine conservation science

Salomon, A. S. Gaichas, O. Jensen, V. Agostini, N. Sloan, J. Rice, T. McClanahan, R. Fujita, P. Levin, M. Ruckelshaus, N. Dulvy, and E. Babcock

Bulletin of Marine Science 87: 251-274(2011)


Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change

Polasky, S., S. Carpenter, C. Folke and B. Keeler

Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2011), 26(8): 398-404


Valuing properties with wetland potential

Cragg, M., C. Polek and S. Polasky

The Appraisal Journal (2011), 79(2): 126-142


Conservation and human welfare: economic analysis of ecosystem services

Fisher, B., S. Polasky and T. Sterner

Environmental and Resource Economics (2011), 48(2): 151-159


The impact of land-use change on ecosystem services, biodiversity and returns to landowners: a case study in the State of Minnesota

Polasky, S., E. Nelson, D. Pennington and K. Johnson

Environmental and Resource Economics (2011), 48(2): 219-242


The efficiency of voluntary incentives policies for preventing biodiversity loss

Lewis, D., A. Plantinga, E. Nelson and S. Polasky

Resource and Energy Economics (2011), 33(1): 192- 211


2010

Characterizing changes in marine ecosystem services

Kai MA Chan and Mary Ruckelshaus

F1000 Biology Reports 2, 54. (July 2010)


Water Funds: Protecting Watersheds for nature and people

Goldman, R.L., Benitez, S., Calvache, A., and Ramos, A.

Not Peer-reviewed: The Nature Conservancy Arlington, VA. (2010)


The Natural Capital Project

Heather Tallis, Wang Yukuan, Fu Bin, Zhu Bo, Zhu Wanze, Chen Min, Christine Tam, and Gretchen Daily

Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2010 41, 1: 10-13. (March 2010)

Starts on page 4 of the PDF


Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

Ruth D. Swetnam, Andrew R. Marshall, and Neil D. Burgess

Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2010 41, 1: 7-10. (March 2010)

Starts on page 1 of the PDF


Science in support of ecosystem-based management for the US West Coast and beyond (PDF)

Sarah E. Lester, Karen L. McLeod, Heather Tallis, Mary Ruckelshaus, Benjamin S. Halpern, Phillip S. Levin, Francisco P. Chavez, Caroline Pomeroy, Bonnie J. McCay, Christopher Costello, Steven D. Gaines, Amber J. Mace, John A. Barth, David L. Fluharty, Julia K. Parrish

Biological Conservation 143, 3: 576-587. (March 2010)


Projecting global land use change and its effect on ecosystem service provision and biodiversity with simple models

Nelson, E., H. Sander, P. Hawthorne, M. Conte, D. Ennaanay, S. Manson and S. Polasky

PLoS ONE (2010), 5(12): e14327


Using return on investment to maximize conservation effectiveness in Argentine grasslands

Murdoch, W., J. Ranganatham, S. Polasky, J. Regetz

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2010), 107: 20855–20862


Optimal control of an invasive species with imperfect information about the level of infestation

Haight, R.G. and S. Polasky

Resource and Energy Economics (2010), 32: 519-533


Quantifying biodiversity for building resilience for food security in urban landscapes: getting down to business

Jansson, Å. and S. Polasky

Ecology and Society (2010), 15 (3): 20


The value of urban tree cover: A hedonic property price model in Ramsey and Dakota Counties, Minnesota, USA

Sander, H., S. Polasky and R. Haight

Ecological Economics (2010), 69(8): 1646-1656


Bounded uncertainty and climate change economics

Costello, C., M. Neubert, S. Polasky and A. Solow

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2010), 107(18): 8108-8110


A tale of three villages: choosing an effective method for assessing poaching levels in western Serengeti, Tanzania

Knapp, E.J., D. Rentsch, J. Schmitt, C. Lewis and S. Polasky

Oryx (2010), 44(2): 178-184


Responses to alternative rainfall regimes and anti-poaching in a migratory system

Holdo, R., K. Galvin, E. Knapp, R. Holt, S. Polasky and R. Hilborn

Ecological Applications (2010), 20(2): 381-397


Tradeoffs in identifying global conservation priority areas. In: N. Leader-Williams, W.M. Adams and R.J Smith (Eds.) Tradeoffs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Murdoch, W., M. Bode. J. Hoekstra, P. Karieva, S. Polasky, H. Possingham, K. Wilson

Wiley-Blackwell (2010)


The many faces of ecosystem-based management: Making the process work today in real places (PDF)

Heather Tallis, Phillip S. Levin, Mary Ruckelshaus, Sarah E. Lester, Karen L. McLeod, David L. Fluharty, Benjamin S. Halpern

Marine Policy 34, 2: 340-348. (March 2010)


2009

The Emission-Reduction Potential of Native Forest Restoration in Hawai`i

Marc N. Conte, Christian Giardina, Neil Hannahs, James B. Friday, James S. Greenwell [Daily, G.C., J.H. Goldstein, and J. Kaulukukui (eds.)].

Not Peer-reviewed: Report to the State of Hawai'i Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Task Force Honolulu, HI. (August 14, 2009)


Clearing the haze and seeing the forest: A proposal of economic incentives and financial mechanisms to combat deforestation, fires and haze in Indonesia

Iván Darío Valencia

Not Peer-reviewed: Scholarly Paper for Graduate Studies University of Maryland. (August 2009)


Markets for Ecosystem Services in China: An Exploration of China's "Eco-Compensation" and Other Market-Based Environmental Policies

Michael T. Bennett.

Forest Trends (June 2009)


Integrating ecology and economics in the study of ecosystem services: some lessons learned

Polasky, S. and K. Segerson

Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009),1: 409-434


Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions

Walker, B.W., S. Barrett, S. Polasky, V. Galaz, C. Folke, G. Engström, F. Ackerman, K. Arrow, S. Carpenter, K. Chopra, G. Daily, P. Ehrlich, T. Hughes, N. Kautsky, S. Levin, K-G. Mäler, J. Shogren, J. Vincent, T. Xepapadeas and A. de Zeeuw

Science (2009), 325(11): 1345-1346


Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation

Richardson, D.M, J.J. Hellmann, J. McLachlan, D.F. Sax, M.W. Schwartz, J. Brennan, P. Gonzalez, T. Root, O. Sala, S.H. Schneider, Dan Ashe, A. Camacho, J. Rappaport Clark, R. Early, J. Etterson, D. Fielder, J. Gill, B.A. Minteer, S. Polasky, H. Safford, A. Thompson and M. Vellend

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009), 106(24): 9721-9724


The value of views and open space: estimates from a hedonic pricing model for Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA

Sander, H. and S. Polasky

Land Use Policy (2009), 26(3): 837-845


Conservation economics: economic analysis of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services

Polasky, S

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (2009),10: 1-20


Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline

Hill, J., S. Polasky, E. Nelson, D. Tilman, H. Huo, L. Ludwig, J. Neumann, H. Zheng, D. Bonta

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009), 106(6): 2077-2082


Non-linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection

Koch, E.W., E.B. Barbier, B.R. Silliman, D.J. Reed, G.M.E. Perillo, S.D. Hacker, E.F. Granek, J.H. Primavera, N. Muthiga, S. Polasky, B.S. Halpern, C.J. Kennedy, C.V. Kappel and E. Wolanski

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2009), 7(1): 29-37


The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings (Eds.) Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective

C. Perrings, S. Baumgärtner, W.A. Brock, K. Chopra, M. Conte, C. Costello, A. Duraiappah, A.P. Kinzig, U. Pascual, S. Polasky, J. Tschirhart, A. Xepapadeas

Oxford University Press (2009)


The valuation of ecosystem services. In S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings (Eds.) Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective

E.B. Barbier, S. Baumgärtner, K. Chopra, C. Costello, A. Duraiappah, R. Hassan, A. Kinzig, M. Lehman, U. Pascual, S. Polasky, C. Perrings

Oxford University Press (2009)


A mathematical classification of conservation prioritization problems. In A. Moilanen, H. Possingham and K. Wilson (Eds.) Spatial Conservation Prioritization: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools

Moilanen, A., H. Possingham and S. Polasky

Oxford University Press (2009)


California Current Ecosystem-Based Management Initiative: One-page Summaries

COMPASS (The Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea) May 2009

Trade-Off Analysis

The Many Faces of EBM

State of the Science


Mapping and Valuing Ecosystem Services as an Approach for Conservation and Natural-Resource Management

Heather Tallis, Steve Polasky

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1162: 265-283. (2009)


Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management

Granek, E. Stephen Polasky, Carrie V. Kappel, Denise J. Reed, David M. Stoms, Evamaria W. Koch, Chris J. Kennedy, Lori A. Cramer, Sally D. Hacker, Edward B. Barbier, Shankar Aswani, Mary Ruckelshaus, Gerardo M. E. Perillo, Brian R. Silliman, Nyawira Muthiga, David Bael, Eric Wolanski.

Conservation Biology 24:207-216.(2009)


A Critical Analysis of Ecosystem Services as a Tool in Conservation Projects: The Possible Perils, the Promises, and the Partnerships

Rebecca Goldman, Heather Tallis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1162: 63-78. (2009)


Using science to assign value to nature

Susan Ruffo, Peter Kareiva

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7,1: 3-3. (2009)


Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

Erik Nelson, Guillermo Mendoza, James Regetz, Stephen Polasky, Heather Tallis, D Richard Cameron, Kai MA Chan, Gretchen C Daily, Joshua Goldstein, Peter Kareiva, Eric Lonsdorf, Robin Naidoo, Taylor H Ricketts, and M Rebecca Shaw

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7,1: 4-11. (2009)

Nelson et al. Frontiers Appendix


Integrating conservation and development in the field: implementing ecosystem service projects

Heather Tallis, Rebecca Goldman, Melissa Uhl, and Berry Brosi

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7,1: 12-20. (2009)


Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

Gretchen C Daily, Stephen Polasky, Joshua Goldstein, Peter M Kareiva, Harold A Mooney, Liba Pejchar, Taylor H Ricketts, James Salzman, Robert Shallenberger

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7,1: 21-28. (2009)


2008

Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation

Gretchen C. Daily, Pamela A. Matson.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9455-9456. (2008)


An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

Heather Tallis, Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, Amy Chang.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9457-9464. (2008)


Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape

Erik Nelson, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Eric Lonsdorf, Denis White, David Bael, Joshua J. Lawler.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9471-9476. (2008)


Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

R. Naidoo, A. Balmford, R. Costanza, B. Fisher, R. E. Green, B. Lehner, T. R. Malcolm, T. H. Ricketts.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9495-9500. (2008)


An operational model for mainstreaming ecosystem services for implementation

Richard M. Cowling, Benis Egoh, Andrew T. Knight, Patrick J. O'Farrell, Belinda Reyers, Mathieu Rouget, Dirk J. Roux, Adam Welz, Angelika Wilhelm-Rechman.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9483-9488. (2008)


Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

Jianguo Liu, Shuxin Li, Zhiyun Ouyang, Christine Tam, Xiaodong Chen.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9477-9482. (2008)


Field evidence that ecosystem service projects support biodiversity and diversify options

Rebecca L. Goldman, Heather Tallis, Peter Kareiva, Gretchen C. Daily.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 27: 9445-9448. (2008)


Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, Jeff Camm, Blair Csuti, Paul Fackler, Eric Lonsdorf, Claire Montgomery, Denis White, Jeff Arthur, Brian Garber-Yonts, Robert Haight, Jimmy Kagan, Anthony Starfield, Claudine Tobalske.

Biological Conservation 141, 6: 1505-1524. (2008)


Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture

Wei Zhang, Taylor H. Ricketts, Claire Kremen, Karen Carney, Scott M. Swinton.

Ecological Economics 64, 2: 253-260. (2008)


Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

Taylor H. Ricketts, James Regetz, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Saul A. Cunningham, Claire Kremen, Anne Bogdanski, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Sarah S. Greenleaf, Alexandra M. Klein, Margaret M. Mayfield, Lora A. Morandin, Alfred Ochieng, Blande F. Viana.

Ecology Letters 21, 1: 59-68. (2008)


Linking Terrestrial and Marine Conservation Planning and Threats Analysis

Heather Tallis, Zach Ferdana, Elizabeth Gray.

Conservation Biology 22, 1: 120-130. (2008)


The Ecosystem Services Framework and Natural Capital Conservation

R. K. Turner, G. C. Daily.

Environmental and Resource Economics 39, 1: 25-35. (2008)


2007

When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation

Kai M. Chan, Robert M. Pringle, Jai Ranganathan, Carol L. Boggs, Yvonne L. Chan, Paul R. Ehrlich, Peter K. Haff, Nicole E. Heller, Karim Al-Khafaji, Dena P. Macmynowski.

Conservation Biology 21, 1: 59-68. (2007)


Institutional Incentives for Managing the Landscape: Inducing Cooperation for the Production of Ecosystem Services

R.L. Goldman, B.H. Thompson, G.C. Daily.

Ecological Economics 64, 2: 333-343. (2007)


Pollination and Other Ecosystem Services Produced by Mobile Organisms: A Conceptual Framework for the Effects of Land Use Change

C. Kremen, N. Williams, M.A. Aizen, B. Gemmill-Herren, G. LeBuhn, R. Minckley, L. Packer, S. Potts, T. Roulston, I. Steffan-Dewenter, D. Vazquez, R. Winfree, L. Adams, E. Crone, S. Greenleaf, T. Keitt, A.M. Klein, J. Regetz, T. Ricketts.

Ecology Letters 10, 4: 299-314. (2007)


Evaluating the Potential for Conservation Development: Biophysical, Economic, and Institutional Perspectives

L. Pejchar, P. Morgan, M. Caldwell, C. Palmer, G.C. Daily.

Conservation Biology 21, 1: 69-78. (2007)


Response to Hockley: The merit of economic and biological measures in conservation planning

Robin Naidoo, Andrew Balmford, Paul J. Ferraro, Stephen Polasky, Taylor H. Ricketts, Mathieu Rouget.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22, 6: 287-288. (2007)


Factoring Species, Non-Species Values and Threats into Biodiversity Prioritisation Across the Ecoregions of Africa and its Islands

Neil D. Burgess, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Taylor H. Ricketts, Eric Dinerstein.

2006

Biological Conservation 127, 4: 383-401. (2006)


Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

Kai M. Chan, M. Rebecca Shaw, David R. Cameron, Emma C. Underwood, Gretchen C. Daily.

PLoS Biology 4, 11. (2006)


Business Strategies for Conservation on Private Lands: Koa Forestry as a Case Study

J. Goldstein, G.C. Daily, J.B. Friday, P.A. Matson, R.L. Naylor, P.M. Vitousek.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103, 26: 10140-10145. (2006)


Integrating Economic Costs Into Conservation Planning

Robin Naidoo, Andrew Balmford, Paul J. Ferraro, Stephen Polasky, Taylor H. Ricketts, Mathieu Rouget.

TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 21, 12. (2006)


Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation

Robin Naidoo, Taylor H. Ricketts.

PLoS Biology 4, 11. (2006)


Introduction to Ecosystem Services

Heather Tallis.

Science Chronicles 4, 3. (2006)


Ecosystem Services

Heather Tallis, Peter Kareiva.

Current Biology 15, 18. (2006)


Shaping Global Environmental Decisions Using Socio-ecological Models

Heather Tallis, Peter Kareiva.

TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 21, 10. (2006)


Economic assessment of the true costs of aggregate mining in Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Emily McKenzie, Allison Woodruff, and Caleb McClennen.

South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (2006)


2005 and Earlier

Economic Benefits of Biodiversity Exceed Costs of Conservation at an African Rainforest Reserve

Robin Naidoo, Wiktor L. Adamowicz.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102, 46: 16712-16716. (2005)


Conserving Species in a Working Landscape: Land Use with Biological and Economic Objectives

Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, Eric Lonsdorf, Paul Fackler, Anthony Starfield.

Ecological Applications 15, 4: 1387-1401. (2005)


Tropical Forest Fragments Enhance Pollinator Activity in Nearby Coffee Crops

Taylor H. Ricketts.

Conservation Biology 18, 5: 1262-1271. (2004)


Economic Value of Tropical Forest to Coffee Production

T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, C. Michener.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101, 34: 12579-12582. (2004)


Ecosystem Consequences of Bird Declines

C.H. Sekercioglu, G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101, 52: 18042-18047. (2004)


Who Should Pay for Tropical Conservation, and How Could the Costs be Met?

Andrew Balmford, Tony Whitten.

Oryx 37, 2: 238-250. (2003)


Making Conservation Profitable

Katherine Ellison, Gretchen Daily.

Conservation in Practice 4, 2: 12-120. (2003)


Population Diversity and Ecosystem Services

Gary W. Luck, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich.

TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 18, 7. (2003)


Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

Andrew Balmford, Aaron Bruner, Philip Cooper, Robert Costanza, Stephen Farber, Rhys E. Green, Martin Jenkins, Paul Jefferiss, Valma Jessamy, Joah Madden, Kat Munro, Norman Myers, Shahid Naeem, Jouni Paavola, Matthew Rayment, Sergio Rosendo, Joan Roughgarden, Kate Trumper, R. Kerry Turner.

Science 297, 5583: 950-953. (2002)


Conserving Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

P. Balvanera, G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, T.H. Ricketts, S.A. Bailey, S. Kark, C. Kremen, H. Pereira.

Science 291, 5511: 2047. (2001)


Protecting Natural Capital through Ecosystem Service Districts need link

G. Heal, G.C. Daily, J. Salzman, P.R. Ehrlich, C. Boggs, J. Hellmann, J. Hughes, C. Kremen, T. Ricketts.

Stanford Environmental Law Journal 20: 333-364. (2001)


Economics of Forest Conservation Across Scales

C. Kremen, J. Niles, M. Dalton, G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, J. Fay, D. Grewal, R.P. Guillery.

Science 288, 5472: 1828-1832. (2000)


The Value of Nature and The Nature of Value

G.C. Daily, T. Soderqvist, S. Aniyar, K. Arrow, P. Dasgupta, P. Ehrlich, C. Folke, A-M Jansson, B-O Jansson, N. Kautsky, S. Levin, J. Lubchenco, K.G. Maler, D. Simpson, D. Starrett, D. Tilman, B. Walker.

Science 289, 5478: 395-396. (2000)



Books


Nature's Fortune

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams

Basic Books (April 9, 2013)









The Power of Trees

The Power of Trees

Gretchen C. Daily and Charles Katz

Trinity University Press (October 2, 2012)






Natural Capital, Theory and Practice

Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

Peter Kareiva, Heather Tallis, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, and Stephen Polasky

Oxford University Press (2011)


Modeling ecosystem services in terrestrial systems

Erik J Nelson and Gretchen C Daily

F1000 Biology Reports 2, 53. (July 2010)


Valuing the Environment in Small Islands: An environmental economics toolkit

P. Van Beukering, L. Brander, E. Thompson, E. McKenzie.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee, (2007)


Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making

Water Sciences and Technology Board, including Natural Capital Project Directors and Team Members.

The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. (2004)


The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable

Gretchen Daily, Katherine Ellison.

Island Press, Washington, DC. (2002)


Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

Gretchen Daily, Editor.

Island Press, Washington, DC. (1997)



Related Publications


Ecosystem Services

Location, Location, Location: The Geography of Ecosystem Services

James Boyd.

Resources for the Future (2008)


Restoring Nature's Capital: An Action Agenda to Sustain Ecosystem Services

Frances Irwin, Janet Ranganathan.

World Resources Institute (2007)


What Are Ecosystem Services? The Need for Standardized Environmental Accounting Units

James Boyd, Spencer Banzhaf.

Resources for the Future (2006)


Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, J. Emmett Duffy, Carl Folke, Benjamin S. Halpern, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Heike K. Lotze, Fiorenza Micheli, Stephen R. Palumbi, Enric Sala, Kimberley A. Selkoe, John J. Stachowicz, and Reg Watson.

Science 314, 5800: 787-790. (2006)


Managing Ecosystem Services: What Do We Need To Know About Their Ecology?

Claire Kremen.

Ecology Letters 8, 5: 468-479. (2005)


Conservation: Dollars and Sense

Lucy Odling-Smee.

Nature 437, 7059: 614-616. (2005)


Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Reports

Walter Reid, Director.

United Nations (2005)


Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

Dagmar Schr�ter, Wolfgang Cramer, Rik Leemans, I. Colin Prentice, Miguel B. Ara�jo, Nigel W. Arnell, Alberte Bondeau, Harald Bugmann, Timothy R. Carter, Carlos A. Gracia, Anne C. de la Vega-Leinert, Markus Erhard, Frank Ewert, Margaret Glendining, Joanna I. House, Susanna Kankaanp��, Richard J. T. Klein, Sandra Lavorel, Marcus Lindner, Marc J. Metzger, Jeannette Meyer, Timothy D. Mitchell, Isabelle Reginster, Mark Rounsevell, Santi Sabat�, Stephen Sitch, Ben Smith, Jo Smith, Pete Smith, Martin T. Sykes, Kirsten Thonicke, Wilfried Thuiller, Gill Tuck, S�nke Zaehle, and B�rbel Zierl.

Science 310, 5752: 1333-1337 (2005)


Review of Existing and Potential Environmental Services Markets in Indonesia

S. Suyanto, Beria Leimona, Rizki Pandu Permana, F.J.C. Chandler.

World Agroforestry Centre (2005)


Value: Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

L. Emerton, E. Bos.

IUCN (2004)


How much is an ecosystem worth? Assessing the economic value of conservation.

Stefano Pagiola, Konrad von Ritter, Joshua Bishop.

World Bank, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy (2004)


The Area Requirements of an Ecosystem Service: Crop Pollination by Native Bee Communities in California

Claire Kremen, Neal M. Williams, Robert L. Bugg, John P. Fay, Robin W. Thorp.

Ecology Letters 7, 11: 1109-1119. (2004)


Economic Value of Terrestrial and Marine Biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region: Implications for Defining Effective and Socially Optimal Conservation Strategies

Jane K. Turpie, Barry J. Heydenrych, Stephen J. Lamberth.

Biological Conservation 112, 2: 233-251 (2003)


The Economic Value of Forest Ecosystems

David W. Pearce.

Ecosystem Health 7, 4: 284-296. (2001)


An Assessment of Ecosystem Services: Water Flow Regulation and Hydroelectric Power Production

Zhongwei Guo, Ziangming Ziao, Dianmo Li.

Ecological Applications 10, 3: 925-936. (2000)


Valuing Ecosystem Services

Geoffrey Heal.

Ecosystems 3, 1: 24-30. (2000)


The Economic Value of Controlling an Invasive Shrub

Erika S. Zavaleta.

AMBIO 29, 8: 462-467. (2000)


Economic Returns from the Bioshphere

Graciela Chichilniskly, Geoffrey Heal.

Nature 391, 6668: 629-630. (1998)


The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital

Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert B. O’Neil, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton, Marjan van den Belt.

Nature 387, 6630: 253-260. (1997)


Perceptual and Structural Barriers to Investing in Natural Capital: Economics from an Ecological Footprint Perspective

Mathis Wackernagel, William E. Rees.

Ecological Economics 20, 1: 3-24. (1997)


Development and Ecosystem Services

Environment at the Heart of Tanzania’s development: Lessons from Tanzania’s National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA)

Paschal Assey, Stephen Bass, Blandina Cheche, David Howlett, George Jambiya, Idris Kikula, Servacius Likwelile, Amon Manyama, Eric Mugurusi, Ruzika Muheto, Longinus Rutasitara.

International Institute for Environment and Development Natural Resource Issues Series No. 6., London, UK (2007)


Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Potential Tool for Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Anantha Kumar Duraiappah.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2007)


Forests and Human Health: Assessing the Evidence

C.J.P. Colfer, D. Sheil, M. Kishi.

Center for International Forestry Research (2006)


ENVIRONMENT: Investments Toward Sustainable Development

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Walter V. Reid.

Science 312, 5776: 1002. (2006)


Depend on Nature: Ecosystem Services Supporting Human Livelihoods

Sue Mainka, Jeff McNeely, Bill Jackson.

World Conservation Union (2005)


Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Developing Countries

Proceedings and Conclusions of the Research Network for Environment and Development Conference Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen (August 17-18, 2005)


Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty

Gregory Mock, Editor.

World Resources Institute (2005)


Exploring the Forest-Poverty Link: Key Concepts, Issues and Research

A. Angelsen, S. Wunder.

Center for International Forestry Research (2003)


Optimizing Protected Area Use

Sudeepto Bhattacharya, Rucha Ghate, Shree Bhagwan.

XII World Forestry Congress (2003)


Forest Carbon and Local Livelihoods: Assessment of Opportunities and Policy Recommendations

S. Smith, S.J., Scherr.

Center for International Forestry Research (2002)


Forestry, Poverty, and Aid

J.E.M Arnold.

Center for International Forestry Research (2001)


Promoting Forest Conservation Through Ecotourism Income? A Case Study from Ecuador

S. Wunder.

Center for International Forestry Research (1999)


Ecosystem Services, Efficiency, Sustainability and Equity: South Africa’s Working for Water Programme

B.W. van Wilgen, D.C. Le Maitre, R.M. Cowling.

TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 13, 9. (1998)


Guidance for Implementing Ecosystem Services Approaches: Changing behavior through institutions, policy, and incentives

Ecosystem services: A guide for decision-makers

J. Ranganathan, C. Raudsepp-Hearne, N. Lucas, F. Irwin, M. Zurek, K. Bennett, N. Ash, P. West.

World Resources Institute (2008)


The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review: Guidelines for identifying business risks and opportunities arising from ecosystem change

C. Hanson, J. Ranganathan, C. Iceland, J. Finisdore.

World Resources Institute (2008)


Payments for Ecosystem Services: Getting started. A Primer

Mira Inbar, Sara J. Scherr, Sissel Waage, Carina Bracer, and Anantha Duraiappah.

Forest Trends, The Katoomba Group, and UNEP (2008)


Negotiating for Nature's Services: A primer for sellers of ecosystem services on identifying and approaching prospective private sector buyers

J. P. Roberts, S. Waage.

Forest Trends, The Katoomba Group, and UNEP (2008)


Designing Payments for Ecosystem Services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms

B. K. Jack, C. Kousky, K. Sims.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 28: 9465-9470. (2008)


Global Scoping Study on Compensation and Rewards for Ecosystem Services (CRES) Working Paper Series

Brent Swallow, Project Leader.

World Agroforestry Center (2007)


The State of Food and Agriculture 2007: Paying farmers for environmental services

Prabhu Pingali (director), Keith Wiebe (service chief), and Terri Raney (senior economist and editor).

Food and Agriculture Organization (2007)


Payments for Environmental Services: An Equitable Approach for Reducing Poverty and Conserving Nature

Emma Duncan, Editor.

World Wildlife Fund (2006)


Pay: Establishing payments for watershed services

M. Smith, D. de Groot, G. Bergkamp.

World Conservation Union (2006)


Choosing From the Policy Toolbox

C. Kousky.

Ecosystem Marketplace (2005)


Payment for Ecosystem Services: Some Nuts and Bolts

S. Wunder.

Center for International Forestry Research (2005)


Payments for Environmental Services: A Survey and Assessment of Current Schemes

Karel Mayrand, Marc Paquin.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (2004)


A Knowledge and Assessment Guide to Support the Development of Payment Arrangements for Watershed Ecosystem Services

Sylvia S. Tognetti, Guillermo Mendoza, Bruce Aylward, Douglas Southgate, Luis Garcia.

The World Bank Environment Department (2004)


From Goodwill to Payment for Environmental Services

Pablo Gutman, Editor.

World Wildlife Fund (2003)


Factors to Consider in Choosing Instruments to Promote Environmental Services

S. Scherr, A. White.

Katoomba Group (2002)